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
“I am not gamesome: I do lack some part of that quick spirit that is in Antony.” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Wit is its own remedy. Liberty and commerce bring it to its true standard. The only danger is the laying an embargo.… — Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury Copy Share Image
SADNESSES OF THE INTELLECT: Sadness of being misunderstood [sic]; Humor sadness; Sadness of love wit[hou]t release; Sadne[ss of be]ing smart; Sadness of… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Rush Limbaugh is a principled conservative, master broadcaster and stinging social critic who has won his mammoth following through his own energy,… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“All women may not be beautiful but every woman can look beautiful.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
A man's reception depends upon his coat; his dismissal upon the wit he shows. — Pierre-Jean de Beranger 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
In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed. Not all… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
I had developed a survival skill of using my wit to score for myself. If a scene was dying, I'd lob in… — Harold Ramis 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
Almost everybody in the neighborhood had troubles, frankly localized and specified; but only the chosen had complications. To have them was in… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Wit generally succeeds more from being happily addressed than from its native poignancy. A jest, calculated to spread at a gaming-table, may… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
I owe a quenchless debt to him who bade me seize my fate And hang it on the faith that I to… — Gill Robb Wilson Copy Share Image
Let me, if not by birth, have lands by wit; All with me's meet that I can fashion fit. — William Shakespeare 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
Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
It is always the same: women bedeck themselves with jewels and furs, and men with wit and quotations. — Maurice Chevalier Copy Share Image
Reagan took an approach to the Cold War dramatically different from any other US President. To wit, he thought we should win.… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
My work requires acting at its most committed - it demands actors of enormous resilience, but also intelligence and wit. It doesn't… — Mike Leigh Copy Share Image
Vous eprouves trop d'emotion, Hastings, It affects your hands and your wits. Is that a way to fold a coat? And regard… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
My mother studied English and drama at the University of Pennsylvania, where my father studied architecture. She was a great influence in… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image