Shoulda sent a thank you note, you little hoe Now Imma wrap your coffin wit a bow — Nicki Minaj Copy Share Image
Wit is better as a seasoning than as a whole dish by itself. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge. — George Herbert Copy Share Image
Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
if anyone present wishes to make me the subject of his wit, I am very much at his service--with my sword--whenever he… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Magda was reading a book by a Trappist, in a better mood, and I was sitting on the edge of the bed,… — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
You don't need a dead father to explain a character's sadness. And impressing yourself with wit/cleverness often feels like what it is… — Mary J. Miller Copy Share Image
Roosevelt's humor was broad, his manner friendly. Of wit there was little; of philosophy, none. What did he possess? Intuition, inspiration, love… — Emanuel Celler Copy Share Image
“There's a hell of a distance between wise-cracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words.” — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
“He liked such sharpness, for there was nothing in him that had any blood you might spill.” — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
Wit is often a mask. If you tear it you will find either genius irritated or cleverness juggling. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“Why did men have to ruin everything? The answer was simple, she supposed—because foolish women gave them the chance” — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
We do not claim that punning is legitimate wit. Wit consists in combination of ideas, punning in combination of words only. We… — Harriet Hosmer Copy Share Image
Wit and humor seem to always factor into this - there's a tongue-in-cheek tone you get when you take on a formalist… — Alexander Weinstein Copy Share Image
“Expectation. That is the true soul of art. If you can give a man more than he expects, then he will laud… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
The wise wo/man knows there is something to be learned from everyone. S/He knows that know matter how bad or good said… — Isaiah Harden (Me Copy Share Image
Leonard Cohen can give you "Leonard Cohen" - the self-deprecating wit, the slow, considered speech, the perfectly-honed anecdote - Tom Waits is… — Sylvie Simmons Copy Share Image
Some wits, too, like oracles, deal in ambiguities, but not with equal success; for though ambiguities are the first excellence of an… — Edward Young Copy Share Image
Didn't you have any sadistic nannies who told you these tales to keep you quiet and well behaved at night? Heavens, what's… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
Potluck Supper with Meeting to Follow is a marvel, deftly examining the connections between art and everyday life. Andy Sturdevant's lively, unique… — Joe Meno Copy Share Image
Born Losers is a beautiful piece of writing. Scott Sandage is history's Dickens; his bleak house, the late nineteenth century world of… — William S. McFeely Copy Share Image
Zeus Is Dead is full of laugh-out-loud moments, lashings of sly wit, moan-worthy puns, and a complex, fast-paced storyline. There aren't very… — Jody Lynn Nye Copy Share Image
All sentiment is right; because sentiment has a reference to nothing beyond itself, and is always real, wherever a man is conscious… — David Hume Copy Share Image
She looked so beautiful in the moonlight, but it wasn't only the way she looked, it was what was inside her, everything… — Terry Goodkind Copy Share Image
“As a matter of fact, with all his wit, humor, raillery, persiflage, he was the profoundest logician that ever appealed to the… — Herman E. Kittredge Copy Share Image
“There are certain common privileges of a writer, the benefit whereof I hope there will be no reason to doubt; particularly, that… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
The way to truth lies through the destruction of the false. To destroy the false, you must question your most inveterate beliefs.… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Your wits can't thicken in that soft moist air, on those white springy roads, in those misty rushes and brown bogs, on… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
There still remains to mortify a wit The many-headed monster of the pit. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I get it, I get it. I get it, I get it. Your hustle don't ever go unnoticed baby, I'm wit you,… — Drake Copy Share Image
Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of wisdom and a means of survival. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
That wit is truly amiable, which gladdens and enlivens every thing, which shines with a lustre gentle, but not faint, and powerful,… — Jeremiah Seed Copy Share Image
As in smooth oil the razor best is whet, So wit is by politeness sharpest set; Their want of edge from their… — Edward Young Copy Share Image
Yet writers say, as in the sweetest bud The eating canter dwells, so eating love Inhabits in the finest wits of all. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
