Wit Quotes
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![Cassandra Clare](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1689347318i/150038._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“Patience, grasshopper," said Maia. "Good things come to those who wait."
"I always thought that was 'Good things come to those who do the wave,'" said Simon. "No wonder I've been so confused all my life.”
― City of Glass
"I always thought that was 'Good things come to those who do the wave,'" said Simon. "No wonder I've been so confused all my life.”
― City of Glass
![Cassandra Clare](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1689347318i/150038._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“So you're a Shadowhunter,' Nate said. 'De Quincey told me that you lot were monsters.'
'Was that before or after he tried to eat you?' Will inquired.”
― Clockwork Angel
'Was that before or after he tried to eat you?' Will inquired.”
― Clockwork Angel
![Thomas Pynchon](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1626381765i/235._UX200_CR0,44,200,200_.jpg)
“If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.”
― Gravity’s Rainbow
― Gravity’s Rainbow
![Jane Austen](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1651510251i/1265._UX200_CR0,4,200,200_.jpg)
“There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome."
"And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody."
"And yours," he replied with a smile, "is wilfully to misunderstand them.”
― Pride and Prejudice
"And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody."
"And yours," he replied with a smile, "is wilfully to misunderstand them.”
― Pride and Prejudice
![Flannery O'Connor](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1469878767i/22694._UX200_CR0,24,200,200_.jpg)
“I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.”
― The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor
― The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor
“Humor keeps us alive. Humor and food. Don't forget food. You can go a week without laughing.”
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![Blaise Pascal](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1397937717i/10994._UY200_CR57,0,200,200_.jpg)
“I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter."
(Letter 16, 1657)”
― The Provincial Letters
(Letter 16, 1657)”
― The Provincial Letters
“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the road less traveled by and they CANCELLED MY FRIKKIN' SHOW. I totally shoulda took the road that had all those people on it. Damn.”
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![Wilkie Collins](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1192222099i/4012._UX200_CR0,62,200,200_.jpg)
“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.”
― The Woman in White
― The Woman in White
![Brandon Sanderson](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1721927489i/38550._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Why hasn't anyone killed him yet?”
“Dumb luck,” Wit said. “In that I’m lucky you’re all so dumb.”
― Words of Radiance
“Dumb luck,” Wit said. “In that I’m lucky you’re all so dumb.”
― Words of Radiance
![Derek Landy](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1646302508i/165168._UX200_CR0,38,200,200_.jpg)
“They say sarcasm is the lowest form of wit," Valkyrie said.
China glanced at her. "They've obviously never met me.”
― Mortal Coil
China glanced at her. "They've obviously never met me.”
― Mortal Coil
![Edwin Markham](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1244557069i/179023._UX200_CR0,35,200,200_.jpg)
“He drew a circle that shut me out-
Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout.
But love and I had the wit to win:
We drew a circle and took him In!”
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Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout.
But love and I had the wit to win:
We drew a circle and took him In!”
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![William Goldman](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1198704782i/12521.jpg)
“Now what happens?" asked the man in black.
"We face each other as God intended," Fezzik said. "No tricks, no weapons, skill against skill alone."
"You mean you'll put down your rock and I'll put down my sword and we'll try to kill each other like civilized people, is that it?”
― The Princess Bride
"We face each other as God intended," Fezzik said. "No tricks, no weapons, skill against skill alone."
"You mean you'll put down your rock and I'll put down my sword and we'll try to kill each other like civilized people, is that it?”
― The Princess Bride
“There’s a fine line between support and stalking and let’s all stay on the right side of that.”
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![P.G. Wodehouse](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1198684105i/7963._UX200_CR0,39,200,200_.jpg)
“A melancholy-looking man, he had the appearance of one who has searched for the leak in life's gas-pipe with a lighted candle.”
― The Man Upstairs and Other Stories
― The Man Upstairs and Other Stories
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