Good writing and dark wit always excite me and they come together thrillingly in this book. It has a quiet grip on… — Jenny Diski 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
I have read that there are two fears that cannot be trained out of us: the startle reaction upon hearing an unexpected… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
I have wit in my work and a sense of humor, but I do not use irony in any way — John Zorn Copy Share Image
What Time hath scanted men in hair, he hath given them in wit. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
One should never risk a joke, even of the mildest and most unexceptional charters, except among people of culture and wit. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
“Take care of your car in the garage, and the car will take care of you on the road.” — Amit Kalantri 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
I received the fundamentals of my education in school, but that was not enough. My real education, the superstructure, the details, the… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Wit has its place in debate; in controversy it is a legitimate weapon, offensive and defensive. — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
The goodness of the true pun is in the direct ratio of its intolerability. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
I'm all for one-world government, assuming we can find a world. — John Alejandro King Copy Share Image
At the best, sarcasms, bitter irony, scathing wit, are a sort of swordplay of the mind. You pink your adversary, and he… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
This world is a vaporous jest at best, Tossed off by the gods in laughter, And a cruel attempt at wit were… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
It seems to me that today, if the artist wishes to be serious - to cut out a little original niche for… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
“you ask too many questions," snapped Cletus. I kept my gaze on Roman. "that's because I get too few answers.” — David Baldacci Copy Share Image
Sometimes with the most intense pain a paralysis of sensibility occurs. The soul disintegrates--hence the deadly frost--the free power of the mind--the… — Novalis Copy Share Image
Slanders, sir, for the satirical rogue says here that old men have grey beards, that their faces are wrinkled, their eyes purging… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Ko Un's poems evoke the open creativity and fluidity of nature, and funny turns and twists of Mind. Mind is sometimes registered… — Gary Snyder 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
No matter how much restriction civilization imposes on the individual, he nevertheless finds some way to circumvent it. Wit is the best… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
