Some of the best work done to combat the Republicans has been wit and humor. — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
Wit lives in the present, but genius survives the future. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
Accept a miracle, instead of wit See two dull lines, with Stanhope's pencil writ. — Edward Young Copy Share Image
Because if you've got the wit, you can make anything into a melody, ultimately. — Gerry Mulligan Copy Share Image
“Did you just say you Think Mansfield Park is boring? Get out of my house.” — Joel Derfner Copy Share Image
It is many times with a fraudulent Design that men stick their corrupt Doctrine with the Cloves of other mens Wit. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Who can prove Wit to be witty when with deeper ground Dulness intuitive declares wit dull? — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Reading is the noblest of all the hobbies, that is why people mention it so frequently in their resume even if they… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
There is small disproportion betwixt a fool who useth not wit because he hath it not and him that useth it not… — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
It is a great misfortune neither to have enough wit to talk well nor enough judgment to be silent. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Writing, madam, is a mechanic part of wit. A gentleman should never go beyond a song or a billet. — George Etherege Copy Share Image
Wit is brushwood; judgment, timber; the one gives the greatest flame, the other yields the most durable heat; and both meeting make… — Thomas Overbury Copy Share Image
We find ourselves less witty in remembering what we have said than in dreaming of what we would have said. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Copy Share Image
The things which ... are esteemed as the greatest good of all ... can be reduced to these three headings, to wit… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
The difference between genuine poetry and the poetry of Dryden, Pope, and all their school, is briefly this: their poetry is conceived… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
There is no kind of false wit which has been so recommended by the practice of all ages, as that which consists… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Humor does not include sarcasm, invalid irony, sardonicism, innuendo, or any other form of cruelty. When these things are raised to a… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
Mr. Jones's book is a cleareyed examination of the British class system, and it poses this brutal question: 'How has hatred of… — Dwight Garner Copy Share Image
My liege, and madam, to expostulate What majesty should be, what duty is, Why day is day, night night, and time is… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The Great slight the men of wit, who have nothing but wit; the men of wit despise the Great, who have nothing… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Mystery writers' conventions are usually good, and this one has been excellent and extremely well prepared and thought out in advance. A… — Anne Perry Copy Share Image
If there's any plan or scheme on my part, it's subconscious. Whatever I do tends to be very different from the thing… — Emily Mortimer Copy Share Image
For this my mother wrapped me warm, And called me home against the storm, And coaxed my infant nights to quiet, And… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
In times like ours, where the growing complexity of life leaves us barely the time to read the newspapers, where the map… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
[D]emocracy will soon degenerate into an anarchy, such an anarchy that every man will do what is right in his own eyes… — John Adams Copy Share Image
I was actually permitting myself to experience a sickening sense of disappointment: but rallying my wits, and recollecting my principles, I at… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
My life has had meaning, with the friendships full and valuable and essential to me. My children, Steve, Leslie, and Sam, are… — Lauren Bacall Copy Share Image
If you don't think, and you have no wit and you have so many hangups that you can't look beyond your cup… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
“Jordan, there isn't a straight woman or gay man alive who wouldn't drop everything to have dinner with you. I've been in… — Matthew Haldeman-Time Copy Share Image
Not many girls would have used their wits the way you did," the officer observed. — Carolyn Keene Copy Share Image
The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
If brevity is the soul of wit then brevity and levity are the whole of it. — Michael R. Burch Copy Share Image
That's what cricket's all about: two batsmen pitting their wits against one another — Fred Trueman Copy Share Image
A man cannot please long who has only one kind of wit. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
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