Stanislaus Leszczynski Quotes

A good wit will make use of anything.

"You are fairly smart," I said after a while. "You are fairly good at compliments," he answered.

Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.

The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.

I am always acting, be at a party, at work or in office. My attitude changes from meeting to meeting, from being serious to intense to funny, depending on who is in the room.

The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.

Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.

Wit is educated insolence.

The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.

I'm smart and I can be really funny and interesting and I can go toe-to-toe with anybody in a conversation.

Wit, to be well defined, must be defined by wit itself; then it will be worth listening to.

Wit gives an edge to sense, and recommends it extremely.

A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share in another.

It's such a fine line between stupid and clever.

There's a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.

Wit and wisdom differ; wit is upon the sudden turn, wisdom is bringing about ends.

Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.

I've never met a funny person who wasn't smart. I've met a lot of dramatic people who were stupid. But I've never met a funny person who wasn't smart.

I hate clever-cleverness, but I love good honest cleverness.

The more wit the less courage.

There's a popular concept of 'intelligence' as book smarts, like calculus or chess, as opposed to, say, social skills. So people say that 'it takes more than intelligence to succeed in human society.' But social skills reside in the brain, not the kidneys.

Brevity is the soul of wit.

I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.

I'm smart enough to know to work with smart people.