To strive, to seek, to find…

8 William Shakespeare: You don’t need me to tell you that he’s a bit good. Go and find your own favourite. There’s plenty of material out there.

I like:

“Assume a virtue, if you have it not” - Hamlet

“I wasted time, and now doth time waste me” - Richard II

“Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance” - The Winter’s Tale

Someone big in the footie world next…

9 Brian Clough: “I wouldn’t say I was the best manager in the business, but I was in the top one.”

Okay. Quite like that.

See below. Hm. Jokes about Germans. Cutting. Edge.

10 Liam Gallagher: “She can’t even chew gum and walk in a straight line, let alone write a book.” (on Victoria Beckham)

Is he still alive? Lovely. Anyhoo, let’s ignore the quotation. I refuse to believe that he can speak beyond grunts and “MAD FER IT!” In any case, it’s less wit and more bitch, so whatever.

A bit of nostalgia for those of us who loved the Oasis back in school:

So, what do you make of it all? The Times sums it up well: “All men and mainly dead.”

Why no laydeez in the Top 10? Marge Thatcher made it to no. 12. She once said “Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.” Perhaps not the best example of lady wit; see here instead.

Who else has been cruelly missed off the List o’Wit? Which punning remarks redeem some of the characters listed here?

Over to you, dear reader.

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The Register are rather amusing on this