Wit Quotes · Page 43

[In the Royal Society, there] has been, a constant Resolution, to reject all the amplifications, digressions, and swellings of style: to return…

— Thomas Sprat

Man, I've been to jail. It was hell in there, but I survived, If they put me back, I'll come out again.…

— Don King

Brian Turner has given us not so much a memoir as a mediation, rendered with grace and wit and wisdom. If you…

— Larry Heinemann

MIke Lee writes with honesty, penetration, wit and the ability to surprise the reader with an unexpected turn from time to time…

— Norman Mailer

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

“On ne peut pas tout avoir. Et puis d'abord où le mettrait-on?”

— Claude Chabrol

Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold,…

— Germaine Greer

I really like sardonicism and wit. I love the writing of Joy Williams and Lorrie Moore. I like Tina Fey, Amy Schumer.

— Carrie Brownstein

Hast any philosophy in thee shepherd? .• • • • . . . He that wants money, means and content, is without…

— William Shakespeare

Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.

— John Dryden

Humans are an infant species, a mere 150,000 years old. But, armed with a massive brain, we've not only survived, we've used…

— David Suzuki

We continue, however, to write about important people, prize-winning people, blacks of grandeur, women of great fire, fame or wit. We do…

— Jonathan Kozol

I can't stay friends with anyone who doesn't have a passion for something; and, generally speaking, artistic people, creative people carry it…

— Alan King

Scattered wits take a long time in picking up.

— Charles Dickens

If the men of wit and genius would resolve never to complain in their works of critics and detractors, the next age…

— Jonathan Swift

The heart of a statesman should be in his head.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

I've traveled all over the world for the Institute, but I never dreamed I'd meet someone like you." "Strong?" A chuckle escaped…

— Gena Showalter

It is a great misfortune not to possess sufficient wit to speak well, nor sufficient judgment to keep silent.

— Jean de la Bruyere

The character of false wit is that of appearing to depend only upon reason.

— Luc de Clapiers

The quality of wit inspires more admiration than confidence

— George Santayana

Man forgives woman anything save the wit to outwit him.

— Minna Antrim

When I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon…

— Joseph Addison

And the Prince stared at her like a man out of his wits.

— Anonymous

For as the body grows old, so the wits grow old and become blind towards all things alike.

— Herodotus

Be present. Make love. Make tea. Avoid small talk. Embrace conversation. Buy a plant, water it. Make your bed. Make someone else's…

— Paulo Coelho