Sharp Wit Quotes

#1. In retrospect, I am very nearly as sharp as I pretend to be.

Lyndsay Faye

#2. Just because you're unemployed doesn't mean you're not doing anything useful. You are, for example, at least keeping your mother-in-law's wit sharp.

Marilyn Vos Savant

#3. It was while Princess Margaret was attending a high-society party in New York that the hostess asked her politely how the Queen was keeping. "Which one?" she is reported to have replied with her typically razor-sharp wit. "My sister, my mother or my husband?

Princess Margaret

#4. I once dated a girl that was wild. She was so wild that one night she gave her phone number to the mechanical bull.

Rodney Dangerfield

#5. Sometimes it's a struggle to make everything work. I usually work on music from nine in the morning until three in the afternoon. Then there are the family activities. Then I work again at night - from nine to as late as two.

Hans-Peter Lindstrom

#6. You don't have to be anyone but yourself.

Marni Bates

#7. What? No defense? Any student of mine must be able to defend his ideas against an attack. No matter how you spend your life, your wit will defend you more often than a sword. Keep it sharp! I

Patrick Rothfuss

#8. No matter how you spend your life, your wit will defend you more often than a sword. Keep it sharp!

Patrick Rothfuss

#9. My sparkling personality? Razor-sharp wit? The great hair? Chicks dig the hair.

Pippa DaCosta

#10. If you become a Nun, dear,
The bishop Love will be;
The Cupids every one, dear!
Will chant-'We trust in thee!'

Leigh Hunt

#11. I was going to write a sharp witty email full of devastating one-liners but I suspect you want something nicer than that

Lucy Robinson

#12. My brother Billy was the joke teller. My brother Jim had a really sharp, cutting wit. And the teller of long stories, that was my brother Ed. As a child, I just absorbed everything they said, and I was always in competition for the laughs.

Stephen Colbert

#13. I noticed that the houses in Fort Smith were numbered but it was no city at all compared to Little Rock. I thought then and still think that Fort Smith ought to be in Oklahoma instead of Arkansas ...

Charles Portis

#14. A whetstone is no carving instrument, And yet it maketh sharp the carving tool; And if you see my efforts wrongly spent, Eschew that course and learn out of my school; For thus the wise may profit by the fool, And edge his wit, and grow more keen and wary, For wisdom shines opposed to its contrary.

Geoffrey Chaucer

#15. That clever mind, that sharp tongue and droll wit. His love for Ella, manifested in sacrifice and secret smiles; his sense of honor and duty; his pride in the face of unceasing subjugation. His joy of nature, his respect for all things living, his skill with ... well, everything.

Rachel Haimowitz

#16. Thy wit is a very bitter sweeting; it is a most sharp sauce.

William Shakespeare

#17. If you are brave of heart, sharp of wit, strong of spirit and steadfast of purpose, there is nothing you cannot achieve

Kate Forsyth

#18. Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, but God to man doth speak in solitude.

John Stuart Blackie

#19. A trial is still an ordeal by battle. For the broadsword there is the weight of evidence; for the battle-ax the force of logic; for the sharp spear, the blazing gleam of truth; for the rapier, the quick and flashing knife of wit.

Lloyd Paul Stryker

#20. Everything you do, do for happiness, you will find that you are a great success.

Debasish Mridha

#21. Coffee falls into the stomach ... ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop ... the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink ...

Honore De Balzac