If you have any helpful suggestions I'd be pleased to hear them. If all you can do is make snide insinuations then… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
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At present, the novels which we owe to English ladies form no small part of the literary glory of our country. No… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
For poetry, he's past his prime, He takes an hour to find a rhyme; His fire is out, his wit decayed, His… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Who was it who said that every virtue contains its corresponding vice? C.S. Lewis? Virginia Woolf? You forget. But it has always… — Kevin Brockmeier Copy Share Image
Wine works the heart up, wakes the wit; There is no cure 'gainst age but it. and 'Tis late and cold, stir… — John Fletcher Copy Share Image
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Poets like painters, thus unskilled to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
To be in love- where scorn is bought with groans, Coy looks with heart-sore sighs, one fading moment's mirth With twenty watchful,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
We are deeply saddened to hear about the passing of Jonathan Hardy. The clever wit and joy he brought to his performance… — Brian Henson Copy Share Image
He who brings ridicule to bear against truth finds in his hand a blade without a hilt. The most sparkling and pointed… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
And the people who live in the southern part of my state do not have a secure environment. To wit, there are… — John McCain Copy Share Image
It was while Princess Margaret was attending a high-society party in New York that the hostess asked her politely how the Queen… — Princess Margaret Copy Share Image
Abstracts, abridgments, summaries, etc., have the same use with burning-glasses,--to collect the diffused light rays of wit and learning in authors, and… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
The ways in which Oscar Wilde was attacking the Romantics that preceded him, and the Romantic ideas that preceded him, were very… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
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Wit in women is a jewel, which, unlike all others, borrows lustre from its setting, rather than bestows it; since nothing is… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I learnt so much wit, really, from the Globe audiences. If you can make a circle, even in a proscenium theater, if… — Mark Rylance Copy Share Image
They make their fortune who are stout and wise, Wit rules the heavens, discretion guides the skies. [Lat., Che sovente addivien che'l… — Torquato Tasso Copy Share Image
She kindly laments that I am not of the party, and to be sure I honour great ladies, and I admire great… — Elizabeth Montagu Copy Share Image
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A trial is still an ordeal by battle. For the broadsword there is the weight of evidence; for the battle-ax the force… — Lloyd Paul Stryker Copy Share Image
I'm sorry I stood there like a half-wit, Count Petroff," she told him matter-of-factly, "but I was a bit--surprised. After all, it's… — Johanna Lindsey Copy Share Image
This is the first generation in all of recorded history that can do something about the scourge of poverty. We have the… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
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