Authors are partial to their wit, 'tis true, But are not critics to their judgment, too? — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Seduction is about intelligence and wit. Someone who makes me laugh has every chance to seduce me. — Riccardo Tisci Copy Share Image
Take a portion of wit, And fashion it fit, Like a needle, with point and with eye: A point that can wound,… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
People who can't rely on their wits and intelligence to reach success -- that's not what government is about, and that's not… — Christy Carlson Romano Copy Share Image
...but I should say that kindliness, and sincerity, and if I may say so--modesty--are worth far more to a man, to a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“There is not a man of common sense who would not chuse to be agreeable in company; and yet, strange as it… — 1779 The Town and Country Magazine. vol. 11 Copy Share Image
Out of the thousand writers huffing and puffing through movieland there are scarcely fifty men and women of wit or talent. The… — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
A change of strategy suggests there is a strategy. I don't see a strategy that deals with - that concerns with dealing… — David Ignatius Copy Share Image
There seems almost a general wish of descrying the capacity and undervaluing the labour of the novelist, and of slighting the performances… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The glossary of politics is so full of euphemistic words and phrases - as in the nature of things it must be… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
It is all too easy for a society to measure itself against some abstract philosophical principle or political slogan. But in the… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
Whatever has "wit enough to keep it sweet" defies corruption and outlasts all time; but the wit must be of that outward… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Some men's wit is like a dark lantern, which serves their own turn and guides them their own way, but is never… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I have, over the years brought an enormous number of plays to television starting obviously with Nicholas Nickelby and then things like… — Colin Callender Copy Share Image
Too much brilliance has its disadvantages, and misplaced wit may raise a laugh, but often beheads a topic of profound interest. — Margot Asquith Copy Share Image
“They seek him here. They seek him there. Those Frenchies seek him everywhere. Is he in Heaven? Or is he in Hell?… — Sir Peter Blackney Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
“You can tell a really wonderful quote by the fact that it's attributed to a whole raft of wits.” — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
No charm, no humor, no wit -- and a personality which can only be described as 'icky.' . — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
This fellow pecks up wit, as pigeons peas; And utters it again when God doth please: He is wit's pedler; and retails… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
What a pretty thing man is when he goes in his doublet and hose and leaves off his wit! — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
If I believe in something, I will fight for it, with all I have. But I do not demand all or nothing.… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
Whose the spiritual people pon earth. The Black people. Dem a deal wit God. And God no let dem down. — Bob Marley Copy Share Image
People who go for humor are wonderful because they do great humor. People who go for wit and end up with humor… — Robert Benton Copy Share Image
Fashions smile has given wit to dullness and grace to deformity, and has brought everything into vogue, by turns, but virtue. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Make the doors upon a woman's wit, and it will out at the casement; shut that, and 'twill out at the key-hole;… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“I have already made this paper too long, for which I must crave pardon, not having now time to make it shorter.” — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
[On being asked in her later years if she were Tallulah:] I'm what's left of her, dahling. — Tallulah Bankhead Copy Share Image
Surely we have the wit and will to develop economically without despoiling the very environment we depend upon — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
Poetry is the honey of all flowers, the quintessence of all sciences, the marrow of wit, and the very phrase of angels. — Thomas Nashe Copy Share Image
A man's wits are better employed in bearing up under the misfortunes that lie upon him at present than in foreseeing those… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Voices and movements approach loss and remembrance profoundly, making poetry of the mundane and seasoning it with wit. — Deborah Jowitt Copy Share Image
If the men of wit and genius would resolve never to complain in their works of critics and detractors, the next age… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Depending upon shock tactics is easy, whereas writing a good play is difficult. Pubic hair is no substitute for wit. — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
This man [Chesterfield], I thought, had been a Lord among wits; but I find he is only a wit among Lords. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I don't read reviews about myself with any special eagerness or attention unless they are masterpieces of wit and acumen, and I… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
For all of us, self-briefing before going out or starting a project sharpens artistic wit. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
A funny person is funny only for so long, but a wit can sit down and go on being spellbinding forever. — Diana Vreeland Copy Share Image
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