In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers. — Lucretius Copy Share Image
All my shows are therapy, trying to navigate interesting subjects so I can work them out and to be honest and say… — Marcus Brigstocke Copy Share Image
“Ugh! only she could meet a gorgeous new guy and make a fool of herself. Remy thought.” — Hope Worthington Copy Share Image
I go through stages. Randomly, I'll be attracted to a crazy rocker with tattoos. And I find that I'm extremely attracted to… — Ashley Greene Copy Share Image
Artists must be men of wit, consciously or unconsciously philosophers; read, study and think a great deal of life... — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
My wit is sharper then the finest mustache, and when I walk among men I make truths ring like spurs. — Edmond Rostand Copy Share Image
When someone has the wit to coin a useful phrase, it ought to be acclaimed and broadcast or it will perish. — Jack Smith Copy Share Image
I never have frustrations. The reason is to wit: Of at first I don't succeed, I quit! — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
[on BBC's Sherlock] It's a rare challenge, both for the audience and an actor, to take part in something with this level… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
You may well ask how I expect to assert my privacy by resorting to the outrageous publicity of being one's actual self… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
“The problem is you make the tricks look good. You are a brilliant acrobat, and a witty comedian. You are skillful. People… — Kelli Swofford Nielsen Copy Share Image
“You judge very properly, and it is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
There's a very fine line between underacting and not acting at all. And not acting is what a lot of actors are… — Joan Blondell Copy Share Image
(R)eality TV (is) a medium dedicated to the proposition that with the help of judicious editing, carefully chosen half-wits can hold the… — Terry Teachout Copy Share Image
My brother Billy was the joke teller. My brother Jim had a really sharp, cutting wit. And the teller of long stories,… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
Think of brilliant trickster Vik Muniz as the offspring of Man Ray and Jacques Henri Lartigue, combining the former's relentless experimentation, the… — Vince Aletti Copy Share Image
I have known several persons of great fame for wisdom in public affairs and councils governed by foolish servants. I have known… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
“What is whiter than snow?' he said. 'The truth,' said Grania. 'What is the best colour?' said Finn. 'The colour of childhood,'… — Augusta Gregory Copy Share Image
All Kings, and all their favorites, All glory of honors, beauties, wits, The sun itself, which makes times, as they pass, Is… — John Donne Copy Share Image
Just as it is the province of science to find out what the facts of life are, to classify them and use… — Lily Dougall Copy Share Image
“[S]ince you are angry at me without reason, you attack me harshly with, "Oh outrageous presumption! Oh excessively foolish pride! Oh opinion… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
For the thinker the world is a thought; for the wit, an image; for the enthusiast, a dream; for the inquirer, truth. — Ludwig Buchner Copy Share Image
The old notion that brevity is the essence of wit has succumbed to the modern idea that tedium is the essence of… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
The desire which urges us to deserve praise strengthens our good qualities, and praise given to wit, valour, and beauty, tends to… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Wit is the most dangerous talent you can possess. It must be guarded with great discretion and good-nature, otherwise it will create… — John Gregory Copy Share Image
I grow in worth, and wit, and sense, Unboding critic-pen, Or that eternal want of pence, Which vexes public men. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
Folks with their wits about them knew that advertisements were just a pack of lies - you had only to look at… — Frances Parkinson Keyes Copy Share Image
A witty saying proves nothing, but saying something pointless gets people's attention. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It seems with wit and good-nature, Utrum horum mavis accipe. Taste and good-nature are universally connected. — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
Drink up cause everyone here is good tonight. Except the niggas that I came wit, they good for life — Drake Copy Share Image
Reason leavened with a little wit (if possible) is the real alternative to hate speech, meaning that there's no better time for… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
The gap between the rich and the poor is the most dangerous threat to world peace we have. — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
With twice his wits, she had to see things through his eyes -- one of the tragedies of married life. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“preemptive strike n. A blow or punch delivered by military aircraft to a target who is suspected of being adverse to one's… — Leslie Starr O'Hara Copy Share Image
A sentence is but a cheveril glove to a good wit; How quickly the wrong side may be turned outward! — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
If I had to describe my sense of humor, I would say it's contemporary wit, you know what I'm saying? — Tracy Morgan Copy Share Image
The great charm of conversation consists less in the display of one's own wit and intelligence than in the power to draw… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Idleness of the mind is much worse than that of the body: wit, without employment, is a disease - the rust of… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Great men may jest with saints; 'tis wit in them; But, in the less foul profanation. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Many species of wit are quite mechanical; these are the favorites of witlings, whose fame in words scarce outlives the remembrance of… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
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