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  • If you spend word for word with me, I shall make your wit bankrupt.

    Samuel Ayscough, William Shakespeare (1827). “An index to the remarkable passages and words made use of by Shakespeare”, p.109
  • The dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits.

    William Shakespeare, Juliet Dusinberre (2006). “As You Like It: Third Series”, p.163, Cengage Learning EMEA
  • Make the doors upon a woman's wit, and it will out at the casement; shut that, and 'twill out at the key-hole; stop that, 'twill fly with the smoke out at the chimney.

    Keys  
    1599-1600 Rosalind, in disguise, toOrlando. AsYou Like It, act 4, sc.1, l.153-4.
  • A good old man, sir. He will be talking. As they say, when the age is in, the wit is out.

    Men  
    'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 3, sc. 5, l. [36]
  • I will keep where there is wit stirring, and leave the faction of fools.

    William Shakespeare (1857). “The Complete Works of Shakspeare, Revised from the Best Authorities : with a Memoir, and Essay on His Genius”, p.54
  • How now, wit! Whither wander you?

    'As You Like It' (1599) act 1, sc. 2, l. [60]
  • When a man's verses cannot be understood, nor a man's good wit seconded with the forward child understanding, it strikes a man more dead than a great reckoning in a little room. Truly, I would the gods had made thee poetical.

    Men  
    William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1805). “As you like it. All's well that ends well”, p.89
  • I am a great eater of beef, and I believe that does harm to my wit.

    'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. [90]
  • This rudeness is a sauce to his good wit, Which gives men stomach to digest his words With better appetite.

    Men   Giving  
    Desai. A. (ed.), William Shakespeare (2001). “Julius Caesar”, p.26, Orient Blackswan
  • I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.

    Men  
    'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 1, sc. 2, l. [7]
  • His jest will savour but of shallow wit, When thousands weep, more than did laugh at it.

    "King Henry V".
  • What Time hath scanted men in hair, he hath given them in wit.

    Men  
    William Shakespeare (1740). “The Works of Shakespeare ...: Collated with the Oldest Copies, and Corrected: with Notes, Explanatory, and Critical”, p.194
  • I may chance have some odd quirks and remnants of wit broken on me, because I have railed so long against marriage: but doth not the appetite alter? a man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age. Shall quips and sentences and these paper bullets of the brain awe a man from the career of his humour? No, the world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

    Men   Thinking  
    'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 2, sc. 3, l. [262]
  • Muster your wits; stand in your own defence.

    William Shakespeare, H. R. Woudhuysen (1998). “Love's Labour's Lost: Third Series”, p.241, Cengage Learning EMEA
  • A good wit will make use of anything.

    William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.1372, Oxford University Press
  • My liege, and madam, to expostulate What majesty should be, what duty is, Why day is day, night night, and time is time, Were nothing but to waste night, day and time. Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief.

    William Shakespeare (1963). “Hamlet”, p.41, CUP Archive
  • Fat paunches have lean pates, and dainty bits Make rich the ribs, but backrout quite the wits.

  • He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.

    'The Tempest' (1611) act 2, sc. 1, l. [12]
  • Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.

    'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 1, sc. 5, l. [37]
  • What a pretty thing man is when he goes in his doublet and hose and leaves off his wit!

    Men  
    William Shakespeare (1793). “The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Fifteen Volumes. With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators. To which are Added, Notes by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens. The Fourth Edition. Revised and Augmented (with a Glossarial Index) by the Editor of Dodsley's Collection of Old Plays”, p.532
  • Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits.

    'The Two Gentlemen Of Verona' (1592-3) act 1, sc. 1, l. 2
  • When the age is in, the wit is out

    'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 3, sc. 5, l. [36]
  • My wits begin to turn.

    William Shakespeare, Jay L. Halio (1992). “The Tragedy of King Lear”, p.178, Cambridge University Press
  • The tongues of mocking wenches are as keen As is the razor's edge invisible.

    William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, George Steevens, Richard Farmer (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.36
  • They have a plentiful lack of wit.

    'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [201]
  • How every fool can play upon the word!

    'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 3, sc. 5, l. [48]
  • Some grief shows much of love, But much of grief shows still some want of wit.

    Grief  
    William Shakespeare (1829). “Dramatic Works: Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copies of Steevens and Malone”, p.780
  • Hast any philosophy in thee shepherd? .• • • • . . . He that wants money, means and content, is without three good friends; that the property of rain is to wet and fire to burn; that good pasture makes fat sheep, and a great cause of the night is lack of the sun; that he that hath learned no wit by nature nor art may complain of good breeding or comes of a very dull kindred.

    Art  
    William Shakespeare (1820). “Select Plays of William Shakespeare: In Six Volumes. With the Corrections & Illustrations of Various Commentators. To which are Added, Notes”, p.66
  • If she be fair and wise, fairness and wit, The one's for use, the other useth it.

    William Shakespeare (2014). “Othello: Third Series”, p.171, Bloomsbury Publishing
  • There's many a man hath more hair than wit.

    Men  
    "The Two Gentlemen of Verona".
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