“In spite of being complicated people choose superstitions over common sense.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
With little art, clear wit and sense Suggest their own delivery. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I will keep where there is wit stirring, and leave the faction of fools. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
In Paris, you learn wit, in London you learn to crush your social rivals, and in Florence you learn poise. — Virgil Thomson Copy Share Image
Wits, like drunken men with swords, are apt to draw their steel upon their best acquaintances. — Douglas William Jerrold Copy Share Image
We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
I really like sardonicism and wit. I love the writing of Joy Williams and Lorrie Moore. I like Tina Fey, Amy Schumer. — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
What is this powerful have over my tub? Surely, I am transfixed by your firecracker charm and your suspended electrified wit. — Isabel Yosito Copy Share Image
A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning… — George Savile Copy Share Image
Wit lies in the likeness of things that are different, and in the difference of things that are alike. — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
Conflict acting on intelligence creates imagination. Faced with conflict, creatures are forced to imagine what will happen, where the next threat will… — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image
On a throne at the center of a sense of humor sits a capacity for irony. All wit rests on a cheerful… — George Will Copy Share Image
Wit is artificial; humor is natural. Wit is accidental; humor is inevitable. Wit is born of conscious effort; humor, of the allotted… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
...for though she was ordinary, she possessed health, wit, courage, charm, and cheerfulness. But because she was not beautiful, no one ever… — M.M. Kaye Copy Share Image
There must be love, and understanding, to betray. Most men haven't the wit or the honor for betrayal: not to know it… — Janet Morris Copy Share Image
A witty and informative professor posits that more authors do not choose titles borrowed from Shakespeare's sonnets and plays for the reason… — Thomas C Foster Copy Share Image
Some to conceit alone their taste confine, And glittering thoughts struck out at ev'ry line; Pleas'd with a work where nothing's just… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinction. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I have to match wits with the ads. Like, there's pop-ups that, like, move around and you have to chase them like… — Terry Gross Copy Share Image
I knew the man up until our divorce - after that I didn't know the man, but it didn't stop me caring… — Cynthia Lennon Copy Share Image
Golden volumes! richest treasures, Objects of delicious pleasures! You my eyes rejoicing please, You my hand in rapture seize! Brilliant wits and… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
“There is no deception on the part of the woman, where a man bewilders himself: if he deludes his own wits, I… — John Gower Copy Share Image
From authors whom I read more than once I learn to value the weight of words and to delight in their meter… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
I always put these pert jackanapeses out of countenance by looking extremely grave when they expect that I should laugh at their… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
... the general consent of all that sect is that God (by his foreknowledge, counsel, and wisdom) has no assured election, neither… — John Knox Copy Share Image
English audiences of working people are like an instrument that responds to the player. Thought ripples up and down them, and if… — Mary Heaton Vorse Copy Share Image
Wit is an intermittent fountain; kindness is a perennial spring. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
An ounce of wit that is bought, Is worth a pound that is taught. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
A man's reception depends upon his coat; his dismissal upon the wit he shows. — Pierre-Jean de Beranger Copy Share Image
