True wit is everlasting, like the sun; describing all men, but described by none. — George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham Copy Share Image
What Time hath scanted men in hair, he hath given them in wit. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Rob Chilson's mordant wit will keep you turning the pages until the wee hours! — Algis Budrys Copy Share Image
Whose wit in the combat, as gentle as bright, Ne'er carried a heart-stain away on its blade. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
Only just the right quantum of wit should be put into a book; in conversation a little excess is allowable. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
“My doctor says I must not have any serious conversation after seven [o'clock]. It makes me talk in my sleep.” — Oscar Wilde 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
A sentence is but a cheveril glove to a good wit; How quickly the wrong side may be turned outward! — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“preemptive strike n. A blow or punch delivered by military aircraft to a target who is suspected of being adverse to one's… — Leslie Starr O'Hara Copy Share Image
Idleness of the mind is much worse than that of the body: wit, without employment, is a disease - the rust of… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
The great charm of conversation consists less in the display of one's own wit and intelligence than in the power to draw… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
(R)eality TV (is) a medium dedicated to the proposition that with the help of judicious editing, carefully chosen half-wits can hold the… — Terry Teachout Copy Share Image
My brother Billy was the joke teller. My brother Jim had a really sharp, cutting wit. And the teller of long stories,… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
There's a very fine line between underacting and not acting at all. And not acting is what a lot of actors are… — Joan Blondell Copy Share Image
“You judge very properly, and it is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
You may well ask how I expect to assert my privacy by resorting to the outrageous publicity of being one's actual self… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
[on BBC's Sherlock] It's a rare challenge, both for the audience and an actor, to take part in something with this level… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
“The problem is you make the tricks look good. You are a brilliant acrobat, and a witty comedian. You are skillful. People… — Kelli Swofford Nielsen Copy Share Image
Education always continues. We all know that beauty fades, but what stays is a person's personality, their sense of humor, their wit,… — Stephanie Seymour Copy Share Image
But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge: for… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The letters of famous people can be placed into two categories: there is the type of letter which becomes itself a valuable… — Muriel Spark Copy Share Image
“It was Colonel Parkman who upped stakes, crossed the border, and named our town, thus perversely commemorating a battle in which he'd… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
For action, whatever its immediate purpose, also implies relief at doing something, anything, and the joy of exertion. This is the optimism… — Blaise Cendrars Copy Share Image
Let those find fault whose wit's so very small, They've need to show that they can think at all; Errors, like straws,… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Men famed for wit, of dangerous talents vain, Treat those of common parts with proud disdain; The powers that wisdom would, improving,… — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
We turned onto the last landing. Going out with this guy, I thought, would involve a lot of silly laughter, some wit--the… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
“Miss Taverner took the whip and reins in her hands, and mounted into the driving-seat, scorning assistance. "Take your orders from Miss… — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
Repetition is the only form of permanence that Nature can achieve. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“Networking isn't how many people you know, it's how many people know you.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
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