Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Witten was my guy. I stayed in Wit's hip pocket and did everything I could to learn from him, learn how to… — Ezekiel Elliott Copy Share Image
When you are dealing with a child, keep all your wits about you, and sit on the floor. — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
A true lady should have the wit and the imagination, or at least the very restraint, to express herself without resorting herself… — Ari Marmell Copy Share Image
The lowest boor may laugh on being tickled, but a man must have intelligence to be amused by wit. — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
Sweat pants, hair tied, chillin wit no makeup on. That's when you're the prettiest, I hope that you don't take it wrong. — Drake Copy Share Image
I cannot imagine why we should be at the expense to furnish wit for succeeding ages, when the former have made no… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is a great misfortune not to possess sufficient wit to speak well, nor sufficient judgment to keep silent. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
It look like the lord just work for wite folks cause ever sens i wasn nothin but a litle boy i been… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Twas the saying of an ancient sage that humour was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humour. For a subject… — Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury Copy Share Image
He that has most experience [is] so much more prudent than he that is new, as not to be equalled by any… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Poesy must not be drawn by the ears: it must be gently led, or rather, it must lead, which was partly the… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
The novel...creates a bemusing effect. The short story, on the other hand wakes the reader up. Not only that, it answers the… — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
“ONLY' having the Gift, people appreciate this madness as Art. Everybody wants to have Art in their lives, but no body wants… — Hiroko Sakai Copy Share Image
Il ne faut point donner d'esprit a' ses personnages; mais savoir les placer dans des circonstances qui leur en donnent. You should… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
In the old days of literature, only the very thick-skinned - or the very brilliant - dared enter the arena of literary… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Wit lies in the likeness of things that are different, and in the difference of things that are alike. — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning… — George Savile Copy Share Image
A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What is this powerful have over my tub? Surely, I am transfixed by your firecracker charm and your suspended electrified wit. — Isabel Yosito Copy Share Image
I really like sardonicism and wit. I love the writing of Joy Williams and Lorrie Moore. I like Tina Fey, Amy Schumer. — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Wits, like drunken men with swords, are apt to draw their steel upon their best acquaintances. — Douglas William Jerrold 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
“When you are angry try your best to go to sleep, it keeps you away from speaking, writing and thinking while you… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Someone who gossips well has a reputation for being good company or even a wit, never for being a gossip. — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
A small degree of wit, accompanied by good sense, is less tiresome in the long run than a great amount of wit… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Every witticism is an inexact thought; that which is perfectly true is imperfectly witty. — Walter Savage Landor 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
There are some men who are witty when they are in a bad humor, and others only when they are sad. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
A hard core life I toast to ex flaw, therefore I live raw and went to war wit the law. — Big L Copy Share Image
The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to be able to quote another's wit. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
One was a Cartoon Artist with a heart like chiffon and a wit as accidentally malicious as the jab of a pin… — Eleanor Hallowell Abbott Copy Share Image
“I like to live every day like it's my last." Shallan nodded. "And by that I mean lying in a puddle of… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor. — Henry Fielding 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
Fat paunches have lean pates, and dainty bits Make rich the ribs, but backrout quite the wits. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
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