“Steven dreamed of you the very second you died (So the poem goes) and you may have visited him But I'm pretty… — Jon Paul Fiorentino Copy Share Image
We find ourselves less witty in remembering what we have said than in dreaming of what we would have said. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Copy Share Image
I wonder how anyone can have the face to condemn others when he reflects upon his own thoughts. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Nobody thanks a witty man for politeness when he puts himself on a par with a society in which it would not… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Wit is brushwood; judgment, timber; the one gives the greatest flame, the other yields the most durable heat; and both meeting make… — Thomas Overbury Copy Share Image
Writing, madam, is a mechanic part of wit. A gentleman should never go beyond a song or a billet. — George Etherege Copy Share Image
It is a great misfortune neither to have enough wit to talk well nor enough judgment to be silent. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
There is small disproportion betwixt a fool who useth not wit because he hath it not and him that useth it not… — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
Fortune, the great commandress of the world, Hath divers ways to advance her followers: To some she gives honor without deserving; To… — George Chapman Copy Share Image
My liege, and madam, to expostulate What majesty should be, what duty is, Why day is day, night night, and time is… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Mr. Jones's book is a cleareyed examination of the British class system, and it poses this brutal question: 'How has hatred of… — Dwight Garner Copy Share Image
Humor does not include sarcasm, invalid irony, sardonicism, innuendo, or any other form of cruelty. When these things are raised to a… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
There is no kind of false wit which has been so recommended by the practice of all ages, as that which consists… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
realized that at a level I'd never been conscious we'd been engaged in a game of wits for years. I suppose most… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
My dad was a very funny man - he's the one who taught me life would be awfully hard without humor! I'm… — Joan Cusack Copy Share Image
Without the assistance of eating and drinking, the most sparkling wit would be as heavy as a bad soufflé, and the brightest… — Alexis Soyer Copy Share Image
“Reading is the noblest of all the hobbies, that is why people mention it so frequently in their resume even if they… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Who can prove Wit to be witty when with deeper ground Dulness intuitive declares wit dull? — George Eliot Copy Share Image
All my shows are therapy, trying to navigate interesting subjects so I can work them out and to be honest and say… — Marcus Brigstocke Copy Share Image
In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers. — Lucretius Copy Share Image
Wit, like hunger, will be with great difficulty restrained from falling on vice and ignorance, where there is great plenty and variety… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, But God to man doth speak in solitude. — John Stuart Blackie Copy Share Image
A perfect judge will read each word of wit with the same spirit that its author writ. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Wit is the clash and reconcilement of incongruities; the meeting of extremes round a corner. — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold,… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
The desire which urges us to deserve praise strengthens our good qualities, and praise given to wit, valour, and beauty, tends to… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
For the thinker the world is a thought; for the wit, an image; for the enthusiast, a dream; for the inquirer, truth. — Ludwig Buchner Copy Share Image
The old notion that brevity is the essence of wit has succumbed to the modern idea that tedium is the essence of… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
I never have frustrations. The reason is to wit: Of at first I don't succeed, I quit! — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
When someone has the wit to coin a useful phrase, it ought to be acclaimed and broadcast or it will perish. — Jack Smith Copy Share Image
My wit is sharper then the finest mustache, and when I walk among men I make truths ring like spurs. — Edmond Rostand Copy Share Image
Artists must be men of wit, consciously or unconsciously philosophers; read, study and think a great deal of life... — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
I go through stages. Randomly, I'll be attracted to a crazy rocker with tattoos. And I find that I'm extremely attracted to… — Ashley Greene Copy Share Image
“Ugh! only she could meet a gorgeous new guy and make a fool of herself. Remy thought.” — Hope Worthington Copy Share Image
In the whole history of the world there is but one thing that money cannot buy...to wit--the wag of a dog's tail. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is, that it gives one the greater freedom of… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
Criticism is as often a trade as a science, requiring, as it does, more health than wit, more labour than capacity, more… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Wit is a treacherous dart. It is perhaps the only weapon with which it is possible to stab oneself in one's own… — Geoffrey Bocca Copy Share Image
![“realized that at a level I'd never been conscious we'd been engaged in a game of wits for years. I suppose most writer-subject pairings are like that. Of course, I'd set aside my plan to write about him [Clark Rockfeller] as soon as I'd gotten to know him some, but now I'd resumed that intention.” quote by Walter Kirn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/9e8/walter-kirn-2189_conscious_realized-that-at-a-level-i-d-never-been_3150735.jpg)
