Wit Quotes

... fantasy is not practice for what is real—fantasy is the opiate of women.

~ Shannon Hale

There is never a guarantee of survival, no matter your strength or skill or wit. There is only the day you are conceived and the day you die, and all else is a series of moments you either embrace or endure.

~ Rachel L. Schade

Seeing the mud around a lotus is pessimism, seeing a lotus in the mud is optimism.

~ Amit Kalantri

If you can't impress them with your argument, impress them with your actions.

~ Amit Kalantri

Politeness is the first thing people lose once they get the power.

~ Amit Kalantri

With discipline, you can lose weight, you can excel in work, you can win the war.

~ Amit Kalantri

Anger gets you into trouble, ego keeps you in trouble.

~ Amit Kalantri

Arrogant men with knowledge make more noise from their mouth than making a sense from their mind.

~ Amit Kalantri

Respect cannot be inherited, respect is the result of right actions.

~ Amit Kalantri

No tricks, no tools, but talent makes a task truly top class.

~ Amit Kalantri

State first, subject second, statesman last.

~ Amit Kalantri

Creativity without discipline will struggle, creativity with discipline will succeed.

~ Amit Kalantri

Parents expect only two things from their children, obedience in their childhood and respect in their adulthood.

~ Amit Kalantri

Father has a strengthening character like the sun and mother has a soothing temper like the moon.

~ Amit Kalantri

Cowards say it can't be done, critics say it shouldn't have been done, creator say well done.

~ Amit Kalantri

During a conversation, listening is as powerful as loving.

~ Amit Kalantri

If thinking should precede acting, then acting must succeed thinking.

~ Amit Kalantri

Making a product is just an activity, making a profit on a product is the achievement.

~ Amit Kalantri

The job of feets is walking, but their hobby is dancing.

~ Amit Kalantri

Hands can cook, hands can create, hands can kill. There is no better tool than our hands.

~ Amit Kalantri

A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.

~ Criss Jami

There are two ways to dislike poetry: One is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope.

~ Oscar Wilde

True Wit is Nature to advantage dress'dWhat oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd;Something whose truth convinced at sight we find,That gives us back the image of our mind.As shades more sweetly recommend the light,So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit.

~ Alexander Pope

I have always been a huge admirer of my own work. I'm one of the funniest and most entertaining writers I know.

~ Mel Brooks

He had let me know time after time that he was a thinking man, a man of intellect and wit. Yet one unintended hungry look into my eyes and he betrayed each of his words he had carefully spoken to me. I knew it in that instant. He was a viscerally driven man. And one day, he would possess me.

~ Coco J. Ginger

You can't teach an old dogma new tricks.

~ Dorothy Parker

It's common platitude that knowledge is neutral but every now and then it would be useful if it was on your side and not theirs.

~ John Brunner

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

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Soar with wit. Conquer with dignity. Handle with care.

~ Criss Jami

The small amount of foolery wise men have makes a great show.

~ William Shakespeare

What have you done to your hair?” Mom’s broken voice said, pinning me back to this tiny hospitalroom.“Holy shit!” Icka patted her head as if searching. “You think the nurse stole it? She looked shady.

~ Phoebe Kitanidis

Yeah, well, wish in one hand, crap in the other, and see which fills up first

~ S.a. Bodeen

You know, you're rather amusingly wrong.

~ Terry Pratchett

You should praise, criticize and flirt with people right to their face, only then it will make a difference.

~ Amit Kalantri

Your wit never ceases to underwhelm me.

~ A.e. Kirk

It's time to laugh at your nightmares and have nightmares of your laughter.

~ Melita Tessy

The flesh is sad, alas, and I have read all the books.

~ Stéphane Mallarmé

It was as much a battle of wits and words as it was of mitts and swords.

~ Dean F. Wilson

For glory lit, and life alive, for goals unreached and aims to strive. All men must try, the wind did see. It is the test, it is the dream.

~ Brandon Sanderson

We sensible often resist intrusive love and its chaos practically, employing measures to prevent the former for fear of the latter. But for all our wit and work, that desperation for control also prevents the pure, transcendental freedom more often delivered by both.

~ Tiffany Madison

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