Inspirational Quotes on Wit

“I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.”

“Brevity is the soul of wit.”

“I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter." ( , 1657)”

“My country, right or wrong,” is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, “My mother, drunk or sober.”

“When men have come to the edge of a precipice, it is the lover of life who has the spirit to leap backwards, and only the pessimist who continues to believe in progress.”

“Good madonna, give me leave to prove you a fool.”

“Of learned Fools I have seen ten times ten, Of unlearned wise men I have seen a hundred.”

“Stupidity is brief and guileless, while wit equivocates and hides. Wit is a scoundrel, while stupidity is honest and sincere.”

“Then the small man suddenly ran after them and said: "I want to get my haircut. I say, do you know a little shop anywhere where they cut hair properly? I keep on having my hair cut, but it keeps on growing again." One of the tall men looked at him with the air of a pained naturalist.”

“The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.”

“You, my dear Rodion Romanovich (excuse an old man), are still a young man, in your first youth, so to speak, and therefore you esteem the human intellect above all things, like all young people. Abstract reasoning and the play of wit tempt you astray.”