Humour is the making others act or talk absurdly and unconsciously; wit is the pointing out and ridiculing that absurdity consciously, and… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I love hotels. I generally prefer smaller boutique hotels to large chains, especially when attention and wit has been given to interesting… — Joanna Going Copy Share Image
Genuine witticisms surprise those who say them as much as those who listen to them; they arise in us in spite of… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Mab Jones' poetry is suffused with a cool wit and a wisdom beyond her years. She is a superb performance poet in… — Phill Jupitus Copy Share Image
And here, I believe, the wit is generally misunderstood. In reality, it lies in desiring another to kiss your a-- for having… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Religion supposed Heaven and Hell, the word of God, and sacraments, and twenty other circumstances which, taken seriously, are a wonderful check… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“I spent the last Friday of summer vacation spreading hot, sticky tar across the roof of George Washington High. My companions were… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
God is the God of the people who are at their wits end, who are right up against it with their backs… — James Salter Copy Share Image
Many species of wit are quite mechanical; these are the favorites of witlings, whose fame in words scarce outlives the remembrance of… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
I think the average Jew is probably sharper intellectually than the average gentile, because for years and years he's had to live… — George Lincoln Rockwell Copy Share Image
Economists and technologists bring the "bits", but it requires the social scientists and humanists to bring the "wits. — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
My mother really was an extraordinary, inspirational, tough, cool, sexy, funny woman and that's the kind of woman I've always surrounded myself… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
True wit is nature to advantage dressed, what oft was thought, but never so well expressed. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“Am I afraid of ghosts? My life experience has taught me to be much more afraid of what a human is capable… — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
From whence it happens, that they which trust to books, do as they that cast up many little sums into a greater,… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Nothing is so easy as to deceive one’s self when one does not lack wit and is familiar with all the niceties… — George Sand Copy Share Image
Painting is something that takes place among the colors, and one has to leave them alone completely, so that they can settle… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
In Paris, you learn wit, in London you learn to crush your social rivals, and in Florence you learn poise. — Virgil Thomson Copy Share Image
All that stock of arguments [the skeptics] produce to depreciate our faculties, and make mankind appear ignorant and low, are drawn principally… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
I like pushing the envelope. I like pushing myself and the audience, whether it's a TV show or live. I like to… — Keith Barry Copy Share Image
The idea of what the public will think prevents the public from ever thinking at all, and acts as a spell on… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The Scandinavians are dear people but they've never been what you might call bywords for wit and sparkle, have they? — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
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