Wit meaning

Noun: wit

Pronunciation:(wit)

Wit meaning:

• A message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter

Synonyms: humor, humour, witticism, wittiness, drollness

• Mental ability

Synonyms: brain, brainpower, learning ability, mental capacity, mentality, smarts

• A witty amusing person who makes jokes

Synonyms: wag, card, dag
Verb: wit

Pronunciation:(wit)

Wit meaning:

• Know

Quotations:

1. William Shakespeare – I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed!
2. Cassandra Clare – My rapier wit hides my inner pain.
3. Mae West – All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.
4. Rick Riordan – Getting something and having the wits to use it, those are two different things.
5. Markus Zusak – On many counts, taking a boy like Rudy Steiner was robbery–so much life, so much to live for–yet somehow, I’m certain he would have loved to see the frightening rubble and the swelling of the sky on the night he passed away. He’d have cried and turned and smiled if only he could have seen the book thief on her hands and knees, next to his decimated body. He’d have been glad to witness her kissing his dusty, bomb-hit lips. Yes, I know it.In the darkness of my dark-beating heart, I know. He’d have loved it all right.You see? Even death has a heart.
6. Wilkie Collins – Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own temper.
7. Richard Adams – Animals don’t behave like men,’ he said. ‘If they have to fight, they fight; and if they have to kill they kill. But they don’t sit down and set their wits to work to devise ways of spoiling other creatures’ lives and hurting them. They have dignity and animality.
8. J.K. Rowling – Harry witnessed Professor McGonagall walking right past Peeves who was determinedly loosening a crystal chandelier and could have sworn he heard her tell the poltergeist out of the corner of her mouth, ‘It unscrews the other way.
9. Mary Oliver – How I go to the woods ordinarily, I go to the woods alone, with not a single friend, for they are all smilers and talkers and therefore unsuitable.I don’t really want to be witnessed talking to the catbirds or hugging the old black oak tree. I have my way of praying, as you no doubt have yours. Besides, when I am alone I can become invisible. I can sit on the top of a dune as motionless as an up rise of weeds, until the foxes run by unconcerned. I can hear the almost unhearable sound of the roses singing.If you have ever gone to the woods with me, I must love you very much.
10. Tom Robbins – So you think that you’re a failure, do you? Well, you probably are. What’s wrong with that? In the first place, if you’ve any sense at all you must have learned by now that we pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free.

Sample sentences:

1. Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
2. This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
3. It is only a novel… or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humor, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language
4. Brevity is the soul of wit.
5. But I quickly tamped down the screaming voice inside my head and collected my wits, along with the few available facts.
6. I?I walk alone;The midnight street spins itself from under my feet;My eyes shut these dreaming houses all snuff out;Through a whim of mine over gables the moon’s celestial onion hangs high. I make houses shrink and trees diminish by going far; my look’s leash dangles the puppet-people who, unaware how they dwindle, laugh, kiss, get drunk,Nor guess that if I choose to blink they die. I when in good humor,give grass its green blazon sky blue, and endow the sun with gold;Yet, in my wintriest moods, I hold absolute power to boycott color and forbid any flower to be. I know you appear vivid at my side,Denying you sprang out of my head,Claiming you feel love fiery enough to prove flesh real,Though it’s quite clear all your beauty, all your wit, is a gift, my dear,From me.”Soliloquy of the Solipsist”, 1956.
7. They say sarcasm is the lowest form of wit,” Valkyrie said. China glanced at her. “They’ve obviously never met me.
8. Would you mind repeating that? I’m afraid I might have lost my wits altogether and just hallucinated what I’ve longed to hear.
9. Oh, man there’s a marathon of Beaches running tomorrow night. Can we go after ten so I can see it once all the way through?”Everyone in the room turned to the blond-and-black haired guy, who was propped in the corner, massive arms over his chest.What,” he said. “Look, it’s not Mary Tyler Moore, ‘kay? So you can ‘t give me shit.”Vishous, the one with the black glove on his hand, glared across the room. “It’s worse than Mary Tyler Moore. And to call you and idiot would be an insult to half-wits around the world.”Are you kidding me? Bette Midler rocks. And I love the ocean. Sue me.”Vishous glanced at the king. “You told me I could beat him. You promised.”As soon as you come home,” Wrath said as he got to his feet, “we’ll hang him up by his armpits in the gym and you can use him as a punching bag.”Thank you, baby Jesus.”Blond-and-Black shook his head. “I swear, one of these days I’m going to leave.”As one, the Brothers all pointed to the open door and let silence speak for itself.You guys suck.
10. She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.
11. What you end up remembering isn’t always the same as what you have witnessed.
12. A fire broke out backstage in a theatre. The clown came out to warn the public; they thought it was a joke and applauded. He repeated it; the acclaim was even greater. I think that’s just how the world will come to an end: to general applause from wits who believe it’s a joke.
13. Fairy tales were not my escape from reality as a child; rather, they were my reality — for mine was a world in which good and evil were not abstract concepts, and like fairy-tale heroines, no magic would save me unless I had the wit and heart and courage to use it widely.
14. It had nothing to do with gear or footwear or the backpacking fads or philosophies of any particular era or even with getting from point A to point B. It had to do with how it felt to be in the wild. With what it was like to walk for miles with no reason other than to witness the accumulation of trees and meadows, mountains and deserts, streams and rocks, rivers and grasses, sunrises and sunsets. The experience was powerful and fundamental. It seemed to me that it had always felt like this to be a human in the wild, and as long as the wild existed it would always feel this way.
15. God has not been trying an experiment on my faith or love in order to find out their quality. He knew it already. It was I who didn’t. In this trial He makes us occupy the dock, the witness box, and the bench all at once. He always knew that my temple was a house of cards. His only way of making me realize the fact was to knock it down.
16. I’m not a romantic, I’m a half-wit. Only stupid people would think I’m smart. I’m not something anyone should know. I’m a lunatic wandering around for scraps, I’m like every single miserable moron I’ve scorned and pretended I didn’t recognize. I’m all of them, every last ugly thing in a bad last-minute costume. I’m not different, not at all, not different from any other speck of a thing. I’m a blemished blemish, a ruined ruin, a stained wreck so failed I can’t see what I used to be.
17. Some people are born to make great art and others are born to appreciate it. … It is a kind of talent in itself, to be an audience, whether you are the spectator in the gallery or you are listening to the voice of the world’s greatest soprano. Not everyone can be the artist. There have to be those who witness the art, who love and appreciate what they have been privileged to see.
18. No sensible man ever engages, unprepared, in a fencing match of words with a woman.
19. For the survivor who chooses to testify, it is clear: his duty is to bear witness for the dead and for the living. He has no right to deprive future generations of a past that belongs to our collective memory. To forget would be not only dangerous but offensive; to forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.
20. I received the fundamentals of my education in school, but that was not enough. My real education, the superstructure, the details, the true architecture, I got out of the public library. For an impoverished child whose family could not afford to buy books, the library was the open door to wonder and achievement, and I can never be sufficiently grateful that I had the wit to charge through that door and make the most of it. Now, when I read constantly about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that the door is closing and that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.
21. She dazzles everybody with her wit.
22. Her speech was full of wit.
23. Brevity is the soul of wit.
24. She was at her wit’s end.
25. I don’t have your wit.
26. It was engagingly well-written, with a sense of irony and a nearly wicked wit, and it was strikingly self-aware for a nineteen year old.
27. At the end of the task, every number in the stack of papers she produced matched the computer’s output; the computer’s wit matched hers.
28. And when they asked her where she had been and what on earth she had been doing, she said she had been out wit!
29. He is a man of wit.
30. It is an intelligence, a kind of live computer, with crawling bits for its wits.
31. There was no reason for me to be automatically in awe of the wit and intellect of these New Yorkers.
32. She had no spark of humor and only occasionally a blade of cutting wit.
33. He spoke gently, laughed often, and never exercised his wit at the expense of others.
34. He was forced to rely instead on his wits, his charisma, and his instinct for promotion.
35. Gregarious by nature, Hall proved to be a skillful raconteur with a caustic Kiwi wit.