Not many girls would have used their wits the way you did," the officer observed. — Carolyn Keene Copy Share Image
Because if you've got the wit, you can make anything into a melody, ultimately. — Gerry Mulligan Copy Share Image
If wit is the most sophisticated form of humor, pranks are the most juvenile. — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
The tongues of mocking wenches are as keen As is the razor's edge invisible. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Wit is the key, I think, to anybody's heart, because who doesn't like to laugh? — Julia Roberts Copy Share Image
Tis mean for empty praise of wit to write, As fopplings grin to show their teeth are white. — John Brown Copy Share Image
There's a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
It is sometimes forgotten how much wit there is in certain works of abstract art. There is a certain point in undergoing… — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
I definitely did look up to John. We all looked up to John. He was older and he was very much the… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
Wit, like money, bears an extra value when rung down immediately it is wanted. Men pay severely who require credit. — Douglas William Jerrold Copy Share Image
My philosophy has always been that benefits should percolate up rather than trickle down. — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
A single glass of champagne imparts a feeling of exhilaration. The nerves are braced; the imagination is stirred, the wits become more… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
True wit is nature to advantage dressed, what oft was thought, but never so well expressed. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
There is nothing that more betrays a base ungenerous spirit than the giving of secret stabs to a man's reputation. Lampoons and… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Mere words will not do. They must convey the color, charm, and pulse of life. They must have a private twinkle of… — Corra May Harris Copy Share Image
Good writing and dark wit always excite me and they come together thrillingly in this book. It has a quiet grip on… — Jenny Diski Copy Share Image
Louers be war and tak gude heid about Quhome that ye lufe, for quhome ye suffer paine. I lat yow wit, thair… — Robert Henryson Copy Share Image
If we were left solely to the wordy wit of legislators in Congress for our guidance, uncorrected by the seasonal experience and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Oh! a private buffoon is a light-hearted loon, If you listen to popular rumour; From morning to night he's so joyous and… — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
Coffee: Induces wit. Good only if it comes through Havre. After a big dinner party it is taken standing up. Take it… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
I'm grateful to intelligent people. That doesn't mean educated. That doesn't mean intellectual. I mean really intelligent. What black old people used… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“What I'd like to read is a scientific review, by a scientific psychologist--if any exists--of 'A Scientific Man and the Bible'. By… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Old Madame du Deffand and her friends talked for fifty years without stopping. And of it all, what remains? Perhaps three witty… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The longer a woman remains single, the more apprehensive she will be of entering into the state of wedlock. At seventeen or… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
I seen her in the subway, on my way to Brooklyn. "Hello, good lookin, is this seat tooken?" On the A Train,… — Rakim Copy Share Image
And there are Ben [Jonson] and William Shakespeare in wit-combat, sure enough; Ben bearing down like a mighty Spanish war-ship, fraught with… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I may chance have some odd quirks and remnants of wit broken on me, because I have railed so long against marriage:… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The soul grows into lovely habits as easily as into ugly ones, and the moment a life begins to blossom into beautiful… — Kate Douglas Wiggin Copy Share Image
I love this book! Cathy Malkasian's Percy Gloom swirls with echoes of cartoon landscapes from the past and present. You can almost… — Jeff Smith Copy Share Image
No one is satisfied with his position, but every one is satisfied with his wit — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Wine ...moderately drunken it doth quicken a man's wits, It doth comfort the heart. — Andrew Boorde Copy Share Image
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