“Ah, but I’m not a gentleman,” said the Marquis. “I have it on the best of authority that I am only a… — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
Wit is the lightning of the mind, reason the sunshine, and reflection the moonlight. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
[Allegory] is a flight by which the human wit attempts at one and the same time to investigate two objects, and consequently… — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
In the beginning the Gods made man, and fashioned the sky and the sea, And the earth's fair face for man's dwelling-place,… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
“conservative n. A person who possesses an underdeveloped taste for tyranny. liberal n. A person who believes in liberty, but only for… — Leslie Starr O'Hara 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
It shall be my pleasure to remedy it. First, it is not your strength or your speed that draws me. It's your...everything.… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Mr. Rochester never courted Jane Eyre, Tessa pointed out. No, he dressed up as a woman and terrified the poor girl out… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
It is not wit merely, but temper, which must form the well-bred man. In the same manner it is not a head… — Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury Copy Share Image
There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Behind every footballing tough guy there lurks a mincing aesthete with a love of art for art's sake, football for football's sake.… — Simon Barnes Copy Share Image
For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
I would love to have a battle of wits with you, Bison, but I doubt it would be a fair fight.' 'Shut… — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
“I agree that sometimes it is difficult to choose between right and wrong, but not between right and stupid.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
There's nothing like being in fashion. A man that has once got his character up for a wit is always sure of… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
“We sensible often resist intrusive love and its chaos practically, employing measures to prevent the former for fear of the latter. But… — Tiffany Madison Copy Share Image
Make the doors upon a woman's wit, and it will out at the casement; shut that, and 'twill out at the key-hole;… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
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