Sharp Wit

Famous quotes containing the words sharp and/or wit:

“I have perhaps some shallow spirit of judgment,
But in these nice sharp quillets of the law,
Good faith, I am no wiser than a daw.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“Humour is the making others act or talk absurdly and unconsciously; wit is the pointing out and ridiculing that absurdity consciously, and with more or less ill-nature.”
—William Hazlitt (1778–1830)