| 2H4 I.ii.208 | [Falstaff to Lord Chief Justice, of going to the wars with Prince John] I thank your pretty sweet wit for it |
| 2H4 II.iv.234 | [Doll to Falstaff] They say Poins has a good wit |
| 2H4 IV.iii.85 | [Falstaff alone, as if to Prince John, who has promised to speak well of him] I would you had the wit; 'twere better than your dukedom |
| 2H6 I.i.30 | [Queen to King, of greeting him] With ruder terms, such as my wit affords |
| 2H6 III.i.232 | [Queen to all, of eliminating Gloucester]herein I judge mine own wit good |
| 3H6 III.ii.85 | [Edward to himself, of Lady Grey] Her words doth show her wit incomparable [or: sense 2] |
| AYL I.ii.44 | [Celia to Rosalind] Nature hath given us wit to flout at Fortune |
| AYL I.ii.85 | [Celia to Touchstone] since the little wit that fools have was silenced, the little foolery that wise men have makes a great show |
| AYL I.ii.97 | [Rosalind to Le Beau, responding to his ‘How shall I answer you?’ As wit and fortune will |
| AYL II.iv.53 | [Touchstone to Rosalind as Ganymede] I shall ne'er be ware of mine own wit till I break my shins against it |
| AYL III.ii.27 | [Corin to Touchstone] he that hath learned no wit by nature nor art may complain of good breeding, or comes of a very dull kindred |
| AYL III.iii.11 | [Touchstone to Audrey] a man's good wit |
| AYL IV.i.149 | [Rosalind as Ganymede to Orlando, of how the real Rosalind would behave] Or else she could not have the wit to do this |
| AYL IV.i.77 | [Rosalind as Ganymede to Orlando] I should think my honesty ranker than my wit |
| CE II.ii.159 | [Antipholus of Syracuse to Luciana] every word by all my wit being scanned, / Wants wit in all one word to understand |
| CE II.ii.87 | [Dromio of Syracuse to Antipholus of Syracuse, of Time] what he hath scanted men in hair he hath given them in wit [and in following lines] |
| Cym I.iii.29 | [First Lord to Cloten, of Innogen] I have seen small reflection of her wit |
| Cym II.i.9 | [Second Lord to himself, of Cloten's opponent and Cloten] If his wit had been like him that broke it, it would have run all out |
| E3 I.ii.130 | [King Edward to himself, of the Countess's eye] Which shoots infected poison in my heart, / Beyond repulse of wit or cure of art |
| H5 III.vii.145 | [Constable to all] the men do sympathize with the mastiffs in robustious and rough coming on, leaving their wits with their wives |
| H5 III.vii.30 | [Dauphin to all] the man hath no wit that cannot ... vary deserved praise on my palfrey |
| H5 IV.vii.45 | [Fluellen to Gower] Harry Monmouth, being in his right wits and his good judgements |
| H5 V.ii.25 | [Burgundy to all] I have laboured / With all my wits, my pains, and strong endeavours, / To bring your most imperial majesties / Unto this bar and royal interview |
| H8 II.iv.47 | [Queen Katherine to King Henry, of his father] of an excellent / And unmatched wit and judgement |
| H8 III.i.177 | [Queen Katherine to and of Wolsey and Campeius] You know I am a woman, lacking wit / To make a seemly answer to such persons |
| H8 III.i.72 | [Queen Katherine to Wolsey and Campeius] how to make ye suddenly an answer / In such a point of weight, so near mine honour ... with my weak wit |
| H8 V.iv.47 | [Man to Porter, of a man in the crowd] There was a haberdasher's wife of small wit near him |
| Ham II.ii.200 | [Hamlet to Polonius, of old men] they have a plentiful lack of wit |
| Ham II.ii.90 | [Polonius to Claudius and Gertrude] since brevity is the soul of wit |
| Ham III.ii.329 | [Hamlet to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern] My wit's diseased [or: sense 5] |
| KL I.iv.160 | [Fool to Lear] Thou hadst little wit in thy bald crown when thou gavest thy golden one away |
| KL I.iv.183 | [Fool to Lear] Thou hast pared thy wit o'both sides and left nothing i'the middle |
| KL I.v.11 | [Fool to Lear] Then I prithee be merry. Thy wit shall not go slip-shod |
| KL II.iv.41 | [disguised Kent to Lear] Having more man than wit about me |
| LLL I.ii.169 | [Armado alone, of Samson] he had a very good wit |
| LLL I.ii.177 | [Armado alone] Devise, wit; write, pen |
| LLL I.ii.85 | [Armado to Mote, of Samson's lady] He surely affected her for her wit |
| LLL I.ii.91 | [Mote to Armado] My father's wit and my mother's tongue assist me! |
| LLL IV.i.50 | [Costard to Princess] An your waist, mistress, were as slender as my wit, / One o'these maids' girdles for your waist should be fit |
| LLL IV.ii.34 | [Dull to Holofernes and Nathaniel] You two are book-men - can you tell me by your wit / What was a month old at Cain's birth that's not five weeks old as yet? |
| LLL IV.iii.98 | [Berowne to Dumaine] Once more I'll mark how love can vary wit |
| LLL V.ii.269 | [Princess to all, of the lords] O poverty in wit, kingly-poor flout! |
| LLL V.ii.70 | [Princess to all] None are so surely caught, when they are catched, / As wit turned fool |
| LLL V.ii.76 | [Maria to all] Folly in fools bears not so strong a note / As foolery in the wise when wit doth dote, / Since all the power thereof it doth apply / To prove, by wit, worth in simplicity [first instance] |
| Luc.153 | [] we do neglect / The thing we have, and all for want of wit / Make something nothing by augmenting it |
| Luc.1809 | [] Brutus ... / Began to clothe his wit in state and pride |
| Luc.964 | [] One poor retiring minute in an age / Would purchase thee a thousand thousand friends, / Lending him wit that to bad debtors lends |
| MA I.i.62 | [Beatrice to Leonato, of Benedick] if he have wit enough to keep himself warm, let him bear it for a difference between himself and his horse |
| MA I.ii.15 | [Leonato to Antonio, of the news that the Duke loves Hero] Hath the fellow any wit that told you this? |
| MA II.i.116 | [masked Beatrice to masked Benedick] I had my good wit out of the ‘Hundred Merry Tales‘ |
| MA II.i.126 | [masked Beatrice to masked Benedick, of Benedick] the commendation is not in his wit, but in his villainy |
| MA II.iii.185 | [Don Pedro to Claudio and Leonato, of Benedick] He doth, indeed, show some sparks that are like wit |
| MA II.iii.227 | [Benedick alone, of Beatrice] it is no addition to her wit, nor no great argument of her folly, for I will be horribly in love with her |
| MA III.i.89 | [Ursula to Hero, of Beatrice] She cannot be so much without true judgement - / Having so swift and excellent a wit / As she is prized to have |
| MA III.v.33 | [Dogberry to Verges] When the age is in, the wit is out |
| MA III.v.56 | [Dogberry to Verges] We will spare for no wit |
| MM II.i.256 | [Elbow to Escalus, of men able to serve as constable] few of any wit in such matters |
| MM II.ii.127 | [Isabella to Angelo] Great men may jest with saints: 'tis wit in them |
| MM V.i.360 | [Duke to Angelo] Hast thou or word, or wit, or impudence / That yet can do thee office? |
| MND III.i.127 | [Bottom to himself, of a cuckoo] who would set his wit to so foolish a bird? |
| MND III.i.141 | [Bottom to Titania] if I had wit enough to get out of this wood, I have enough to serve mine own turn |
| MND IV.i.204 | [Bottom to all] I have had a dream past the wit of man to say what dream it was |
| MND IV.ii.9 | [Flute to all, of Bottom] he hath simply the best wit of any handicraft man in Athens |
| MV II.i.18 | [Portia to Morocco] my father ... hedged me by his wit to yield myself / His wife who wins me by that means I told you |
| MV II.ix.81 | [Portia to Nerissa, of the suitors] When they do choose, / They have the wisdom by their wit to lose |
| MV III.v.41 | [Lorenzo to Jessica, of Launcelot] I think the best grace of wit will shortly turn into silence |
| MV III.v.52 | [Lorenzo to Launcelot] Wilt thou show the whole wealth of thy wit in an instant? |
| MV IV.i.127 | [Shylock to Gratiano, responding to ‘Can no prayers pierce thee?’] No, none that thou hast wit enough to make |
| MV IV.i.141 | [Shylock to Gratiano] Repair thy wit, good youth, or it will fall / To cureless ruin |
| MW I.iii.86.1 | [Pistol to Nym, of how he will be revenged] With wit or steel? |
| MW IV.v.56 | [Falstaff to Host, of a wise woman] one that hath taught me more wit than ever I learned before in my life |
| MW V.v.126 | [Falstaff to all] See now how wit may be made a Jack-a-Lent when 'tis upon ill employment |
| Oth I.i.136 | [Roderigo to Brabantio, of Desdemona] her duty, beauty, wit, and fortunes |
| Oth II.i.128 | [Iago to and of Desdemona] If she be fair and wise, fairness and wit, / The one's for use, the other useth it |
| Oth II.iii.358 | [Roderigo to Iago] I shall ... with no money at all, and a little more wit, return again to Venice |
| Oth III.iii.463 | [Iago to Othello] Iago doth give up / The execution of his wit, hands, heart, / To wronged Othello's service |
| Oth III.iv.21 | [Clown to Desdemona, of fetching Cassio] To do this is within the compass of man's wit, and therefore I will attempt the doing of it |
| Oth IV.i.121 | [Cassio to Iago] Prithee bear some charity to my wit |
| Oth IV.ii.145 | [Emilia to Iago, of a rogue] Some such squire he was / That turned your wit the seamy side without |
| Oth IV.ii.211 | [Iago to Roderigo] your suspicion is not without wit and judgement |
| Per Chorus.I.12 | [Gower to audience] you, born in these latter times / When wit's more ripe |
| R2 II.i.28 | [York to John of Gaunt] all too late comes counsel to be heard / Where will doth mutiny with wit's regard |
| R3 III.i.86 | [Prince Edward to Richard, of Julius Caesar] With what his valour did enrich his wit, / His wit set down to make his valour live |
| RJ I.i.209 | [Romeo to Benvolio, of Rosaline] She hath Dian's wit |
| RJ I.iii.43 | [Nurse to Lady Capulet, quoting her husband talking to baby Juliet] Thou wilt fall backward when thou hast more wit |
| RJ I.iv.49.1 | [Romeo to Benvolio] we mean well in going to this masque, / But 'tis no wit to go |
| RJ III.iii.122 | [Friar Laurence to Romeo] thou shamest thy shape, thy love, thy wit [and in the following] |
| RJ III.v.73 | [Lady Capulet to Juliet] much of grief shows still some want of wit |
| Sonn.23.14 | [] To hear with eyes belongs to love's fine wit [i.e. insight] |
| Sonn.37.5 | [] beauty, birth, or wealth, or wit |
| TC I.i.48 | [Pandarus to Troilus] I will not dispraise your sister Cassandra's wit |
| TC I.ii.190 | [Pandarus to Cressida, of Antenor] He has a shrewd wit |
| TC I.ii.261 | [Cressida to Pandarus, of how she will defend herself] upon my wit to defend my wiles |
| TC I.ii.87 | [Pandarus to Cressida, of Troilus] Hector shall not have his wit this year |
| TC I.iii.74 | [Agamemnon to Ulysses] When rank Thersites opes his mastic jaws / We shall hear music, wit, and oracle |
| TC II.i.16 | [Thersites to Ajax] I shall sooner rail thee into wit and holiness |
| TC II.i.46 | [Thersites to Ajax] thou art bought and sold among those of any wit, like a barbarian slave |
| TC II.i.67 | [Thersites to Achilles, of Ajax] lo, what modicums of wit he utters [and in the following] |
| TC II.iii.13 | [Thersites alone] Mercury, lose all the serpentine craft of thy caduceus, if thou take not that little little, less than little wit from them that they have! |
| TC II.iii.214 | [Ulysses to himself] Wit would be out of fashion |
| TC III.ii.148 | [Cressida to Troilus] Where is my wit? |
| TC III.iii.171 | [Ulysses to all] beauty, wit, / High birth ... are subjects all / To envious and calumniating time |
| TC III.iii.255 | [Thersites to Achilles, of Ajax] who should say there were wit in his head, an 'twould out |
| TC V.i.54 | [Thersites alone] wit larded with malice, and malice forced with wit |
| TG I.i.35 | [Valentine to Proteus] a folly bought with wit, / Or else a wit by folly vanquished [and in the following] |
| TG II.iv.37 | [Valentine to Silvia] Sir Thurio borrows his wit from your ladyship's looks |
| TG II.vi.12 | [Proteus alone] And he wants wit that wants resolved will / To learn his wit t'exchange the bad for better |
| TG II.vi.43 | [Proteus alone] Love, lend me wings to make my purpose swift, / As thou hast lent me wit to plot this drift! |
| TG III.i.261 | [Launce alone] I am but a fool, look you, and yet I have the wit to think my master is a kind of a knave |
| TG III.i.343 | [Speed to Launce, of Launce's lady] She hath more hair than wit [and in the following] |
| TG IV.iv.13 | [Launce alone, of his dog] If I had not had more wit than he |
| Tim I.i.237 | [Apemantus to Timon] That I had no angry wit to be a lord [unclear meaning] |
| Tim II.ii.120 | [Fool to Varro's Servant] As much foolery as I have, so much wit thou lackest |
| Tit II.i.10 | [Aaron alone, of Tamora] Upon her wit doth earthly honour wait |
| Tit II.i.120 | [Aaron to Chiron and Demetrius] our Empress with her sacred wit / To villainy and vengeance consecrate, / Will we acquaint with all that we intend |
| Tit II.i.26 | [Demetrius to Chiron] thy years want wit, thy wit wants edge / And manners to intrude where I am graced |
| Tit II.iii.1 | [Aaron alone] He that had wit would think that I had none, / To bury so much gold under a tree |
| TN I.iii.104 | [Sir Toby to Sir Andrew, of Olivia] she'll not match above her degree, neither in estate, years, nor wit |
| TN I.iii.81 | [Sir Andrew to Sir Toby] sometimes I have no more wit than a Christian or an ordinary man has |
| TN I.v.29 | [Feste to himself] Wit, an't be thy will, put me into good fooling |
| TN II.iii.131 | [Maria to all, of Malvolio] If I do not ... make him a common recreation, do not think I have wit enough to lie straight in my bed |
| TN II.iii.86 | [Malvolio to all] Have ye no wit, manners, nor honesty |
| TN III.i.129 | [Olivia to Viola as Cesario] when wit and youth is come to harvest, / Your wife is like to reap a proper man |
| TN III.i.149 | [Olivia to Viola as Cesario] Nor wit nor reason can my passion hide [i.e. common sense] |
| TN III.i.59 | [Viola as Cesario alone, of Feste] This fellow is wise enough to play the fool; / And to do that well craves a kind of wit |
| TN III.i.66 | [Viola as Cesario alone] wise men, folly-fallen, quite taint their wit [i.e. harm their reputation for talking sense] |
| TN V.i.208 | [Sebastian to Olivia] I have hurt your kinsman. / But had it been the brother of my blood / I must have done no less, with wit and safety |
| TNK II.v.12 | [Gaoler's Daughter alone, of Palamon] I love him beyond love, and beyond reason, / Or wit, or safety |
| TS II.i.48 | [Petruchio to Baptista, of Katherina] hearing of her beauty and her wit |
| TS induction.2.76 | [Second Servingman to Sly] O, how we joy to see your wit restored! |
| Ven.1008 | [] Grief hath two tongues, and never woman yet / Could rule them both without ten women's wit |
| Ven.472 | [of Venus] Fair fall the wit that can so well defend her! |
| Ven.690 | [] Danger deviseth shifts; wit waits on fear |
| WT II.ii.52 | [Paulina to Emilia] I'll use that tongue I have. If wit flow from't ... I shall do good |