The tongues of mocking wenches are as keen As is the razor's edge invisible. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
If wit is the most sophisticated form of humor, pranks are the most juvenile. — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
Wit is the key, I think, to anybody's heart, because who doesn't like to laugh? — Julia Roberts Copy Share Image
No one is satisfied with his position, but every one is satisfied with his wit — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
New Year's resolution: To refrain from saying witty, unkind things, unless they are really witty and irreparably damaging. — James Agate Copy Share Image
Writing well is at one and the same time good thinking, good feeling, and good expression; it is having wit, soul, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Style and taste do not have anything to do with the other. It's the difference between wit and humor. — Robert Benton Copy Share Image
It is of no use to possess a lively wit if it is not of the right proportion: the perfection of a… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
“His father was an ass and he is an ass. I imagine sooner than I should like I shall be playing uncle… — T. A. Miles Copy Share Image
It is a certain rule that wit and passion are entirely incompatible. When the affections are moved, there is no place for… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“By doing ordinary actions efficiently you will become the best among ordinary, but you will not be an extraordinary.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Tis mean for empty praise of wit to write, As fopplings grin to show their teeth are white. — John Brown Copy Share Image
Mere words will not do. They must convey the color, charm, and pulse of life. They must have a private twinkle of… — Corra May Harris Copy Share Image
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
I am not here to judge whether people are locked in poverty because of themselves or because of the society in which… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
I can't stay friends with anyone who doesn't have a passion for something; and, generally speaking, artistic people, creative people carry it… — Alan King Copy Share Image
Two goddesses now must Cyprus adore; The Muses are ten, and the Graces are four; Stella's wit is so charming, so sweet… — Callimachus Copy Share Image
What do you do when the story changes in midlife? When a tale you have told yourself turns out to be a… — Gail Caldwell Copy Share Image
I love to have battles of the wits with people that can dish fast and dirty - and it leads to problems… — Alton Brown Copy Share Image
That night as I lay in bed, I thought of several things I could have said and mourned the fact that my… — Siri Hustvedt 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
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
For eighteen centuries every engine of destruction that human science, philosophy, wit, reasoning or brutality could bring to bear against a book… — R. A. Torrey Copy Share Image
A heartwarming tale of Christmas past that's chock full of all the wit and hilarity we admire in America's favorite humorist--Mark Twain.… — Gilbert King Copy Share Image
I don't go to church all that regularly, and one reason I don't is very often when I go I am bored… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Books fall open, you fall in, delighted where you've never been; hear voices not once heard before, reach world on world through… — David McCord Copy Share Image
“Some men, as they age, grow kinder. I am not one of those, for I have seen how the cosmere can mistreat… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Discovery is adventure. There is an eagerness, touched at times with tenseness, as man moves ahead into the unknown. Walking the wilderness… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Wine ...moderately drunken it doth quicken a man's wits, It doth comfort the heart. — Andrew Boorde Copy Share Image
Yet a man may love a paradox, without losing either his wit or his honesty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The Cardinal is at his wit's end - it is true that he had not far to go. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
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