If brevity is the soul of wit then brevity and levity are the whole of it. — Michael R. Burch Copy Share Image
The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Did you just say you Think Mansfield Park is boring? Get out of my house.” — Joel Derfner Copy Share Image
Not many girls would have used their wits the way you did," the officer observed. — Carolyn Keene Copy Share Image
Because if you've got the wit, you can make anything into a melody, ultimately. — Gerry Mulligan Copy Share Image
“Sometimes advises from others are more difficult to bear with than even slang.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Wit will never make a man rich, but there are places where riches will always make a wit. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Farewell, woman! I intend Henceforth every night to sit With my lewd, well-natured friend, Drinking to engender wit. — John Wilmot Copy Share Image
The wit, wisdom and insights of a different person are often unpalatable, weird and absurd to the senses of many ordinary people. — Anuj Copy Share Image
Humor is the offspring of man; it comes forth like Minerva, fully armed from the brain. — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
The more wit you have, the more good nature you must show, to induce people to pardon your superiority, for that is… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
“if you can’t acquaint an opponent with reason, you must acquaint his head with the sidewalk.” — Lee Child Copy Share Image
Beauty, wit, High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service, Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all To envious and calumniating time. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I want story, wit, music, wryness, color, and a sense of reality in what I read, and I try to get it… — John D. MacDonald Copy Share Image
What do those of us who aren't tall, flawlessly sculpted adolescents do? Answer: Console ourselves with how relative beauty can be... Thank… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
In matching your wits against yourself you take on the shrewdest and wiliest antagonist you can have, and consequently a victorious outcome… — Dorothea Brande Copy Share Image
Fairy tales were not my escape from reality as a child; rather, they were my reality -- for mine was a world… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
Reading maketh a full man; and writing an axact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he need have a present… — Francis Bacon 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
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
Hudibras has defined nonsense, as Cowley does wit, by negatives. Nonsense, he says, is that which is neither true nor false. These… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Many useful and valuable books lie buried in shops and libraries, unknown and unexamined, unless some lucky compiler opens them by chance,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
From authors whom I read more than once I learn to value the weight of words and to delight in their meter… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
I always put these pert jackanapeses out of countenance by looking extremely grave when they expect that I should laugh at their… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Old Madame du Deffand and her friends talked for fifty years without stopping. And of it all, what remains? Perhaps three witty… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“What I'd like to read is a scientific review, by a scientific psychologist--if any exists--of 'A Scientific Man and the Bible'. By… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
And there are Ben [Jonson] and William Shakespeare in wit-combat, sure enough; Ben bearing down like a mighty Spanish war-ship, fraught with… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The longer a woman remains single, the more apprehensive she will be of entering into the state of wedlock. At seventeen or… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
I seen her in the subway, on my way to Brooklyn. "Hello, good lookin, is this seat tooken?" On the A Train,… — Rakim Copy Share Image
Give me the clear blue sky over my head, and the green turf beneath my feet, a winding road before me, and… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
A poem's life and death dependeth still Not on the poet's wits, but reader's will. — Alexander Brome Copy Share Image
There is a significant Latin proverb; to wit: Who will guard the guards? — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
If she be fair and wise, fairness and wit, The one's for use, the other useth it. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit. So said by the idiot who can't understand it. — Ramandeep Singh Copy Share Image
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