“Loneliness is a passive state. It is a compulsion when you are left on your own by others. Solitude, on the other… — Alok Mishra Copy Share Image
“I was going to write a sharp witty email full of devastating one-liners but I suspect you want something nicer than that” — Lucy Robinson Copy Share Image
Love all. Trust a few. Do wrong to none. This above all: to thine own self be true. No legacy is so… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Wit goes for the jugular, not the jocular, and it's the opposite of football; instead of building character, it tears it down. — Florence King Copy Share Image
Being president is like running a cemetery: you've got a lot of people under you and nobody's listening. — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
I mean somebody with the wit and the guts to go and do and create. And, that I believe is what education… — Gordon Pask Copy Share Image
The writings of women are always cold and pretty like themselves. There is as much wit as you may desire, but never… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“Erudition is the crude residue of wilted harvests; wit: the meddlesome weed that wilts them.” — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
Not that the moderns are born with more wit than their predecessors, but, finding the world better furnished at their coming into… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
Journeys end in lovers meeting; I have spent an all but sleepless night, I have told lies and made a fool of… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
What woeful stuff this madrigal would be, In some starved hackney sonneteer, or me! But let a lord once own the happy… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
A Wise man knows that much of what he says and does is commonplace and trivial. His thoughts are not all solemn… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
Why was I chosen?' 'Such questions cannot be answered,' said Gandalf. 'You may be sure that it was not for any merit… — Anonymous 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
Why should I seek for love or study it? It is of God and passes human wit; I study hatred with great… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
and I laugh, I can still laugh, who can't laugh when the whole thing is so ridiculous that only the insane, the… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
There are two ways to dislike poetry: One is to dislike it; the other is to read Pope. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I no longer believe in love," she said bitterly. "When people claim to have lost their heart, it's usually only their wits… — Peter Prange Copy Share Image
Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his… — Helen Rowland Copy Share Image
We can look forward to four more years of wonderful, inspirational speeches full of wit, poetry, music, love and affection, plus more… — David Brinkley Copy Share Image
“I'm eating a massive pastrami sandwich. It's so beautiful I might cry. Just so you know.” — Lucy Robinson Copy Share Image
Men of humor are always in some degree men of genius; wits are rarely so, although a man of genius may, amongst… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Some brains are barren grounds, that will not bring seed or fruit forth, unless they are well manured with the old wit… — Margaret Cavendish 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
I have ever thought so superstitiously of wit, that I fear I have committed idolatry against wisdom. — John Lyly Copy Share Image
“Life is meaning less when you realized that you are about to die. Till then, everything negative however trifle they may be,… — Ankur Basu Roy Copy Share Image
I appreciate simplicity, true beauty that lasts over time, and a little wit and eclecticism that make life more fun. — Elliott Erwitt Copy Share Image
“Only one English word adequately describes his transformation of the islands from worthless to priceless: magical.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Wit has its place in debate; in controversy it is a legitimate weapon, offensive and defensive. — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
A wit should no more be sincere, than a woman constant; one argues a decay of parts, as to other of beauty. — William Congreve Copy Share Image
The puppeteer pulls the puppet's strings. The puppet pulls the audience's strings. The audience pulls the puppeteer's strings. — John Alejandro King Copy Share Image
Blue Boy proves that if you don't quite fit in, then you might as well stand out with as much wit, color… — Josh Kilmer-Purcell Copy Share Image
Wit is the clash and reconcilement of incongruities, the meeting of extremes around a corner — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
Jealousy, an eminently credulous and suspicious passion, allows fancy the greatest possible play. But it does not bestow wit, it banishes all… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
There is hardly that person to be found who is not more concerned for the reputation of wit and sense, than honesty… — Richard Steele 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
I'd like to introduce a man with a lot of charm, talent, and wit. Unfortunately, he couldn't be here tonight, so instead . . . — Melvin Helitzer Copy Share Image
“When someone gives you advice, just ask them to give it in writing and they will either keep mum or will run… — Amit Kalantri 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
My country, Right or Wrong, is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
