She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
What Time hath scanted men in hair, he hath given them in wit. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
There are many wise men that have secret hearts and transparent countenances. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Nor sequent centuries could hit Orbit and sum of SHAKSPEARE's wit. The men who lived with him became Poets, for the air… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A rich, multi-dimensional tour of Naples, most brilliant, battered, and bewildering of cities, here fixed to the page with wit and élan.… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
Happy the country that lives on nothing but its wits; cursed be the one that thinks it can get rich by planting… — Bono Copy Share Image
“Seeing the mud around a lotus is pessimism, seeing a lotus in the mud is optimism.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
This world is a vaporous jest at best, Tossed off by the gods in laughter, And a cruel attempt at wit were… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
A favorite strategy was the paragraph-terminating: Right? Followed immediately by Wrong. This linear invitation to a mugging was considered a strategy of… — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
As the fertilest ground, must be manured, so must the highest flying wit have a Daedalus to guide him. — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
I'll be right here in my spot wit a lil more cash than I already got trippin off you cause you had… — Drake Copy Share Image
Almost everybody in the neighborhood had troubles, frankly localized and specified; but only the chosen had complications. To have them was in… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Genuine witticisms surprise those who say them as much as those who listen to them; they arise in us in spite of… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense. There are forty men of wit for one man… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Men grind and grind in the mill of a truism, and nothing comes out but what was put in. But the moment… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A voyage to the moon, however romantick and absurd the scheme may now appear, since the properties of air have been better… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
What man so wise, what earthly wit so ware, As to descry the crafty cunning train, By which deceit doth mask in… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
Courage ought to be guided by skill, and skill armed by courage. Neither should hardiness darken wit, nor wit cool hardiness. Be… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
O born in days when wits were fresh and clear, And life ran gaily as the sparkling Thames; Before this strange disease… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
The way to truth lies through the destruction of the false. To destroy the false, you must question your most inveterate beliefs.… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Your wits can't thicken in that soft moist air, on those white springy roads, in those misty rushes and brown bogs, on… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“As a matter of fact, with all his wit, humor, raillery, persiflage, he was the profoundest logician that ever appealed to the… — Herman E. Kittredge Copy Share Image
“There are certain common privileges of a writer, the benefit whereof I hope there will be no reason to doubt; particularly, that… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
She looked so beautiful in the moonlight, but it wasn't only the way she looked, it was what was inside her, everything… — Terry Goodkind 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
“Erm…I don’t know maybe for kissing me and tasting so damn delicious, maybe for holding my hand in public, maybe for looking… — Becca Lee Copy Share Image
“Even if you have the wit to look by yourself in a bush away from the other children, there are not many… — Yasunari Kawabata Copy Share Image
