What Time hath scanted men in hair, he hath given them in wit. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Rob Chilson's mordant wit will keep you turning the pages until the wee hours! — Algis Budrys Copy Share Image
Wit and woman are two frail things, and both the frailer by concurring. — Thomas Overbury Copy Share Image
Remember that the wit, humour, and jokes of most mixed companies are local. They thrive in that particular soil, but will not… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Fine wits destroy themselves with their own plots, in meddling with great affairs of state. — John Selden Copy Share Image
“Jimmy Murray, you are an ass,' said Aunt Ruth, angrily. 'Well, we're cousins,' agreed Cousin Jimmy pleasantly.” — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
Laugh as loud as you please at your companion's wit; do not even smile at his folly. — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
Enjoy your dear wit and gay rhetoric, That hath so well been taught her dazzling fence. — John Milton Copy Share Image
“I am so obsessed with the cars that sometimes I feel like my heart is not a muscle, it's an engine.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
For [the] quick in wit and light in manners be either seldom troubled or very soon weary, in carrying a very heavy… — Roger Ascham Copy Share Image
We are always more disposed to laugh at nonsense than at genuine wit; because the nonsense is more agreeable to us, being… — Margaret of Valois Copy Share Image
With the latitude of unbounded scurrility, it is easy enough to attain the character of a wit, especially when it is considered… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Let the master praise him, and say, 'Here ye do well.' For, I assure you, there is no such whetstone to sharpen… — Roger Ascham Copy Share Image
A writer's voice is not character alone, it is not style alone; it is far more. A writer's voice line the stroke… — Patricia Lee Gauch Copy Share Image
Alas, how right the ancient saying is: We, who are old, are nothing else but noise And shape. Like mimicries of dreams… — Euripides Copy Share Image
It may be remarked in general, that the laugh of men of wit is for the most part but a feint, constrained… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
Besides the general infusion of wit to heighten civility, the direct splendor of intellectual power is ever welcome in fine society, as… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I love hotels. I generally prefer smaller boutique hotels to large chains, especially when attention and wit has been given to interesting… — Joanna Going Copy Share Image
But pure wit is akin to Puritanism; to the perfect and painful consciousness of the final fact in the universe. Very briefly,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Let those find fault whose wit's so very small, They've need to show that they can think at all; Errors, like straws,… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
For action, whatever its immediate purpose, also implies relief at doing something, anything, and the joy of exertion. This is the optimism… — Blaise Cendrars Copy Share Image
The letters of famous people can be placed into two categories: there is the type of letter which becomes itself a valuable… — Muriel Spark Copy Share Image
Men famed for wit, of dangerous talents vain, Treat those of common parts with proud disdain; The powers that wisdom would, improving,… — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
I had the good fortune to direct my first professional production with one of my Dad's masterpieces, The Man Who Came To… — Chris Hart Copy Share Image
There's no doubt about it. Arcadia is Tom Stoppard's richest, most ravishing comedy to date, a play of wit, intellect, language, brio… — Vincent Canby Copy Share Image
While it may not heighten our sympathy, wit widens our horizons by its flashes, revealing remote hidden affiliations and drawing laughter from… — Marie Taylor Collins Swabey Copy Share Image
There's nothing like being in fashion. A man that has once got his character up for a wit is always sure of… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Every habit makes our hand more witty, and out wit more handy. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“I would have grown up to be a gentleman adventurer if I were more of a gentleman.” — Alex Potvin Copy Share Image
“All women may not be beautiful but every woman can look beautiful.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“I am not gamesome: I do lack some part of that quick spirit that is in Antony.” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
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