Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet to run amok and tilt at all I meet. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The greatest fault of a penetrating wit is to go beyond the mark. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good; and that Wit which sets us at a distance from… — Mary Astell Copy Share Image
Roscoe was spiritually illegal, a bootlegger of the soul, a mythic creature made of words and wit and wild deeds and boundless… — William Kennedy Copy Share Image
A man has to have sensibility, wit, mystery, tolerance, and strength... Romance also helps. — Carolina Herrera Copy Share Image
My wit is like your legs," said Xochi. " It would be selfish of me to keep it hidden. — Dan Wells Copy Share Image
Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
We are given two of most of our body parts, either opposites or similarities, but not the tongue; except for my wife's… — Kyle Bradley Copy Share Image
Wine can of their wits the wise beguile, Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile — Homer Copy Share Image
Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an… — Emily Post Copy Share Image
No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A handbag is only one item to be worn with a complete outfit. Add a peony pink leather handbag to a charcoal… — Kate Spade Copy Share Image
Art is the microscope of the mind, which sharpens the wit as the other does the sight; and converts every object into… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
As a creator of character his peculiarity is that he creates wherever his eyes rest ... With such a power at his… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
All that stock of arguments [the skeptics] produce to depreciate our faculties, and make mankind appear ignorant and low, are drawn principally… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
Fortune, the great commandress of the world, Hath divers ways to advance her followers: To some she gives honor without deserving; To… — George Chapman Copy Share Image
Slanders, sir, for the satirical rogue says here that old men have grey beards, that their faces are wrinkled, their eyes purging… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I hate the countrie's dirt and manners, yet I love the silence; I embrace the wit; A courtship, flowing here in full… — William Habington Copy Share Image
One of the problems I see with these comics on television, particularly cable television, is, since you can say anything in terms… — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
A lot of my comic influences are distinctly American: Woody Allen and Bob Hope, for example. They were always the underdogs who… — Stephen Merchant Copy Share Image
Life in the country teaches one that the really stimulating things are the quiet, natural things, and the really wearisome things are… — Beverley Nichols Copy Share Image
Statesmen and legislators, standing so completely within the institution, never distinctly and nakedly behold it. They speak of moving society, but they… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When I was young, some women told me they loved me for my long eyelashes. I accepted. Later it was for my… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Writing itself, if not misunderstood and abused, becomes a way of empowering the writing self. It converts anger and disappointment into deliberate… — Ted Solotaroff Copy Share Image
The very essence of gravity was design, and, consequently, deceit; it was a taught trick to gain credit of the world for… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
When I stand in a library where is all the recorded wit of the world, but none of the recording, a mere… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If you are going to try and change things, you had better have your wits about you. — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
“I'm living so far beyond my means that we may almost be said to be living apart.” — Saki Copy Share Image
Every age has its pleasures, its style of wit, and its own ways. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Copy Share Image
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