| 2H4 I.ii.10 | [Falstaff alone] I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men |
| 2H4 I.ii.172 | [Falstaff to Lord Chief Justice] pregnancy is made a tapster, and his quick wit wasted in giving reckonings |
| 2H4 I.ii.185 | [Lord Chief Justice to Falstaff] Is not your voice broken, your wind short, your chin double, your wit single, and every part about you blasted with antiquity? |
| 2H4 I.ii.249 | [Galstaff alone] A good wit will make use of anything; I will turn diseases to commodity |
| 2H4 IV.iii.100 | [Falstaff alone, of one of the effects of drinking sack] delivered o'er to the voice, the tongue, which is the birth, becomes excellent wit |
| 3H6 III.ii.33 | [Edward to Richard and George, of Lady Grey] Lords, give us leave; I'll try this widow's wit |
| AW I.ii.32 | [King to Bertram, of Bertram's father] In his youth / He had the wit which I can well observe / Today in our young lords |
| AYL III.ii.268 | [Jaques to Orlando] You have a nimble wit |
| AYL III.ii.66 | [Corin to Touchstone] You have too courtly a wit for me |
| AYL IV.i.151 | [Rosalind as Ganymede to Orlando] Make the doors upon a woman's wit, and it will out at the casement |
| AYL IV.i.154 | [Orlando to Rosalind as Ganymede, of a wife with a good wit] A man that had a wife with such a wit, he might say ‘Wit, whither wilt?’ [also: sense 6] |
| AYL V.i.28 | [William to Touchstone] I have a pretty wit |
| AYL V.iv.104 | [Jaques to Duke Senior, of Touchstone] He uses his folly like a stalking-horse, and under the presentation of that he shoots his wit |
| CE II.i.91 | [Adriana to Luciana] Are my discourses dull? barren my wit? |
| E3 II.i.27 | [King Edward alone, of the Countess] She is grown more fairer far since I came hither, / Her voice more silver every word than other, / Her wit more fluent |
| E3 II.i.78 | [King Edward to Lodowick, of poetry being more effective than music] How much more shall the strains of poets' wit / Beguile and ravish soft and human minds! |
| Ham V.i.45 | [First Clown to Second Clown] I like thy wit well |
| JC I.ii.297 | [Cassius to Brutus, of Casca] This rudeness is a sauce to his good wit |
| JC III.ii.222 | [Antony to Plebeians] I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, / Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech / To stir men's blood [or: sense 1] |
| LC.217 | [] each several stone, / With wit well blazoned, smiled or made some moan |
| LLL II.i.19 | [Princess to Boyet] I am less proud to hear you tell my worth / Than you much willing to be counted wise / In spending your wit in the praise of mine |
| LLL II.i.212 | [Princess to all] This civil war of wits were much better used / On Navarre and his book-men |
| LLL II.i.49 | [Maria to Princess, of Longaville] a sharp wit matched with too blunt a will |
| LLL II.i.59 | [Katharine to Princess, of Dumaine] he hath wit to make an ill shape good, / And shape to win grace though he had no wit |
| LLL II.i.69 | [Rosaline to Princess, of Berowne] His eye begets occasion for his wit |
| LLL IV.i.143 | [Costard alone] O'my troth, most sweet jests, most incony vulgar wit |
| LLL IV.i.148 | [Costard alone, of Armado] And his page o't'other side, that handful of wit! |
| LLL IV.ii.157 | [Holofernes to Nathaniel, of some verses] neither savouring of poetry, wit, nor invention [or: sense 3, 4] |
| LLL IV.iii.145 | [King to all, of Berowne] How will he scorn, how will he spend his wit! |
| LLL V.i.56 | [Armado to all, of Mote] Now, by the salt wave of the Mediterraneum, a sweet touch, a quick venue of wit! [and in the following] |
| LLL V.ii.29 | [Princess to Rosaline and Katharine] Well bandied both! A set of wit well played. |
| LLL V.ii.315 | [Berowne to all, of Boyet] This fellow pecks up wit, as pigeons peas, / And utters it again when God doth please. / He is wit's pedlar |
| LLL V.ii.374 | [Berowne to Rosaline] Your wit makes wise things foolish |
| LLL V.ii.398 | [Berowne to Rosaline] Thrust thy sharp wit quite through my ignorance |
| LLL V.ii.430 | [Berowne to the lords] Speak for yourselves. My wit is at an end |
| LLL V.ii.835 | [Rosaline to Berowne] comparisons and wounding flouts, / Which you on all estates will execute / That lie within the mercy of your wit |
| MA I.i.58 | [Leonato to Messenger, of Beatrice and Benedick] they never meet but there's a skirmish of wit between them |
| MA II.i.109 | [masked Ursula to masked Antonio] do you think I do not know you by your excellent wit? |
| MA II.i.355 | [Don Pedro to Hero, of Benedick] his quick wit and his queasy stomach |
| MA II.iii.229 | [Benedick alone] I may chance have some odd quirks and remnants of wit broken on me |
| MA III.i.52 | [Hero to Ursula, of Beatrice] her wit / Values itself so highly that to her / All matter else seems weak |
| MA III.i.76 | [Hero to Ursula, of Beatrice] she would laugh me / Out of myself, press me to death with wit! |
| MA III.iv.62 | [Margaret to Beatrice] Doth not my wit become me rarely? |
| MA V.i.123 | [Claudio to Benedick, of driving away melancholy] Wilt thou use thy wit? [and in the following] |
| MA V.ii.11 | [Benedick to Margaret] Thy wit is as quick as the greyhound's mouth; it catches |
| MA V.ii.52 | [Benedick to Beatrice] so forcible is thy wit |
| Mac IV.ii.43 | [Lady Macduff to Son] Thou speak'st with all thy wit; / And yet, i' faith, with wit enough for thee |
| MW IV.v.108 | [Falstaff to Mistress Quickly] my admirable dexterity of wit |
| MW IV.v.91 | [Falstaff alone, of courtiers] they would whip me with their fine wits till I were as crest-fallen as a dried pear |
| R3 III.i.132 | [Buckingham to Hastings, of York] With what a sharp-provided wit he reasons |
| RJ II.iv.60 | [Mercutio to Romeo] Sure wit, follow me this jest now till thou hast / worn out thy pump |
| RJ II.iv.78 | [Mercutio to Romeo] Thy wit is a very bitter sweeting |
| RJ IV.v.121 | [Second Musician to Peter] Pray you put up your dagger, and put out your wit [and in the following] |
| Sonn.140.5 | [] If I might teach thee wit, better it were, / Though not to love, yet, love, to tell me so |
| Sonn.26.4 | []To thee I send this written ambassage / To witness duty, not to show my wit |
| Sonn.84.11 | [] Let him but copy what in you is writ, ... / And such a counterpart shall fame his wit [i.e skill as a writer] |
| Tem IV.i.242 | [Stephano to Trinculo] Wit shall not go unrewarded while I am king of this country |
| TG I.i.124 | [Proteus to Speed] Beshrew me, but you have a quick wit |
| TN II.v.199 | [Sir Toby to Maria] To the gates of Tartar, thou most excellent devil of wit! |