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Wit: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations
We will spare for no wit, I warrant you. He uses his folly like a stalking horse, and under the preunder the presentation of that, he shoots his wit.— A.Γ. v. 4.
Odd quirks and remnants of wit.— M. A. ii. 3.
Since the little wit that fools have, was silenced, the little foolery that wise men have, makes a great show. A. V. i. 2 But a merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal: His eye begets occasion for his wit; Shakesprarian Dictionary. For every object that the one doth catch, The other turns to a mirth-moving jest: Which his fair tongue (conceit's expositor) Delivers in such apt and gracious words, That aged ears play truant at his tales, And younger hearings are quite ravished, So sweet and voluble is his discourse.— L. L. ii. 1.
A fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. H. V.— H. v. 1.
Muster your wits: stand on your defence; Or hide your heads like cowards, and fly hence. L. L. v. 2. Those wits that think they have thee, do very oft prove fools; and I, that am sure I lack thee, may pass for a wise man: for what says Quinapalus? Better a witty fool, than— T. N. i. 5.
a foolish wit. I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is— H. IV. PT. II. i. 2.
in other men. It is no matter, if I do halt; I have the wars for my colour, and my pension shall seem the more reasonable: A good wit will make use of any thing; I will turn diseases to com-— H. IV. PT. II. i. 2.
modity. By my troth, we that have good wits, have much to answer for; we shall be flouting; we cannot hold. A.V. v.— M. A. v. 1.
Sir, your wit ambles well; it goes easily. Dart thy skill at me; Bruise me with scorn, confound me with a flout; Thrust thy sharp wit quite through my ignorance; Cut me to pieces with thy keen conceit.— L. L. v. 2.
You should then have accosted her; and with some excellent jest, fire-new from the mint, you should have banged— T. N. iii. 2.
the youth into dumbness. Have you not set mine honour at the stake, And baited it with all the unmuzzled thoughts That tyrannous heart can think?— T. N. iii. 1.
Lo, lo, lo, lo, what modicums of wit he utters!— T.C. ii. 1.
O, she would laugh me Out of myself, press me to death with wit.— M. A. iii. 1
He wants wis that wants resolved will.— T. G. ii. 6.
He doth, indeed, show some sparks that are like wit.— M. A. ii 3
Good wits will be jangling; but, gentles, agree. L. L. ii, L. None are so surely caught when they are catch'd, As wit turn'd fool: folly, in wisdom hatch'd, Hath wisdom's warrant, and the help of school'; And wit's own grace to grace a learned fool.— L. L. v. 2.
Folly in fools bears not so strong a note, As foolery in the wise when wit doth dote; Since all the power thereof it doth apply, To prove, by wit, worth in simplicity.— L. L. v. 2.
Are these the breed of wits so wondered at?— L. L. v. 2.
Thou hast pared thy wit o' both sides, and left nothing in middle. the— K. L. i. 4
His wit is as thick as Tewkesbury mustard.— H. IV. PT. II. ii. 4.
Hector shall have a great catch, if he knock out either of your brains; 'a were as good crack a fusty nut with no kernel.— T. C. ii. 1.
Are his wits safe? is he not light of brain?— O. iv. 1.
See now, how wit may be made a Jack-a-lent, when tis upon ill employment.— M. W. 1. 5.
Well, better wits have worn plain statute caps. L. L. v. 2 When a man's verses cannot be understood, nor a man's good wit seconded by the forward child, understanding, it strikes a man more dead than a great reckoning in a little room.— A.Y. iii. 3
God help me! how long have you profess'd apprehension?— M. A. iii. 4.
He'll but break a comparison or two on me; which, peradventure, not marked, or not laughed at, strikes him intc melancholy; and then there's a partridge's wing saved, for the fool will eat no supper that night.— M. A. ii. 1.
Nay, I shall ne'er be 'ware of mine own wit, till I break my shins against it.— A. P. ii. 4
WIT, REFLECTIONS ON THE SCULL OF A. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs! your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table in a roar? Not one now to mock your own grinning? quite