The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Disease generally begins that equality which death completes; the distinctions which set one man so much above another are very little perceived… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
When does the mind put forth its powers? when are the stores of memory unlocked? when does wit 'flash from fluent lips?'… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit. — William Temple Copy Share Image
“He lies down next to me. He says, 'You know - you have a face to die for/' 'Well, don't die,' I… — Gwendoline Riley Copy Share Image
Only those who haven't got the wit to speak for themselves would ever want their clothes to do it for them. — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
“Loneliness is a passive state. It is a compulsion when you are left on your own by others. Solitude, on the other… — Alok Mishra Copy Share Image
“I no longer believe in love," she said bitterly. "When people claim to have lost their heart, it's usually only their wits… — Peter Prange 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 well-read writer, with good taste, is one who has the command of the wit of other men; he searches where knowledge… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
I don't like jokes in speeches. I do like wit and humor. A joke is to humor what pornography is to erotic… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What so pure, which envious tongues will spare? Some wicked wits have libell'd all the fair, With matchless impudence they style a… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Thus the State never intentionally confronts a man's sense, intellectual or moral, but only his body, his senses. It is not armed… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“After dinner, at five o’clock, the crew distributed folding canvas cots to the passengers, and each person opened his bed wherever he… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
Oh! a private buffoon is a light-hearted loon, If you listen to popular rumour; From morning to night he's so joyous and… — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
Take back the beauty and wit you bestow upon me; leave me my own mediocrity of agreeableness and genius, but leave me… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I wondered what he would have thought if he'd known that I'd gleaned most of my information from reading historical romance novels.” — Nicole Luiken Copy Share Image
What an ornament and safeguard is humor! Far better than wit for a poet and writer. It is a genius itself, and… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Lysley Tenorio is a writer of sly wit and lively invention—these are stories bursting with wonders (from monster movies and leper colonies,… — Peter Ho Davies Copy Share Image
Would you mind repeating that? I'm afraid I might have lost my wits altogether and just hallucinated what I've longed to hear. — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
I have dashed across continents and oceans as a fugitive and have matched my wits with the police and secret agents seeking… — Jack Johnson Copy Share Image
Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. They have retained bubbling-over boyishness. They have relished wit,… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
There is small disproportion betwixt a fool who useth not wit because he hath it not and him that useth it not… — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
