There is something reassuring about British-made products and their inventiveness and ingenuity, their creative spirit and eccentricity and their British wit and… — David Linley Copy Share Image
The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between… — Florence King Copy Share Image
From purest wells of English undefiled None deeper drank than he, the New World's Child, Who in the language of their farm… — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
Wit, like poetry, is insusceptible of being constructed upon rules founded merely in reason. Like faith, it exists independent of reason, and… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
I've never, ever in my life touched a photographer. Some of the cruellest things I've ever said have been to photographers who… — Russell Crowe Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
One of the attractions of translating 'Heroes' is that it's not the kind of play that I write. If it had been,… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Conservatism is affluent and openhanded, but there is a cunning juggle in riches. I observe that they take somewhat for everythingthey give.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Long ago they lowered insane persons into snake pits; they thought that an experience that might drive a sane person out of… — Mary Jane Ward Copy Share Image
He had had much experience of physicians, and said, the only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I have read that there are two fears that cannot be trained out of us: the startle reaction upon hearing an unexpected… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Men have begun to observe and classify, they turn from creation to Criticism... It is the Fashion to be a wit... one… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
The slow rhythm of the body, the insistent rhythm of the wit, were they becoming irreconcilable in modern civilisation? The sedentary life,… — Henry Williamson Copy Share Image
Kamby Bolongo Mean River is an original and fearless fiction. It bears genetic traces of Beckett and Stein, but Robert Lopez's powerful… — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
Exposed! shines a harsh light on the myriad horrors of modern society and reports back from the fearful frontlines with wicked wit… — Jeremy Robert Johnson Copy Share Image
I think the average Jew is probably sharper intellectually than the average gentile, because for years and years he's had to live… — George Lincoln Rockwell Copy Share Image
Don't fall in love with your wit. Your cleverly turned phrase may not, as you hope, show off how much gray matter… — Harvey Mackay Copy Share Image
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Wine gives a man nothing. It neither gives him knowledge nor wit; it only animates a man, and enables him to bring… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The only way therefore to try a Piece of Wit, is to translate it into a different Language: If it bears the… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“Cardinal Campeggio has implored Katherine to bow to the king's will, accept that her marriage is invalid and retire to a convent.… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
My dad's sense of humor was direct and sometimes surreal - his quick wit is well known amongst our family and friends.… — Tony Visconti Copy Share Image
I have never injured anybody with a mordant poem; my verse contains charges against nobody. Ingenuous, I have shunned wit steeped in… — Ovid Copy Share Image
My work requires acting at its most committed - it demands actors of enormous resilience, but also intelligence and wit. It doesn't… — Mike Leigh Copy Share Image
Though your views are in straight antagonism to theirs, assume an identity of sentiment, assume that you are saying precisely thatwhich all… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No matter how much restriction civilization imposes on the individual, he nevertheless finds some way to circumvent it. Wit is the best… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Humour is the making others act or talk absurdly and unconsciously; wit is the pointing out and ridiculing that absurdity consciously, and… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“I miss you, sister," he say. "I miss me too," she say. Always too clever but not clever enough to know when… — Marlon James Copy Share Image
I am a passionate devotee of the Howard Hawks' screwball comedies of the 1930s and the 1940s, where I think that the… — Allison Pearson Copy Share Image
The actor has the advantage - or the liability - of knowing, "It's going to be my face up there on the… — William H. Macy Copy Share Image
The thing that makes our friendships so short and changeable is that the qualities and dispositions of the soul are very hard… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
These days, Clarissa believes, you measure people first by their kindness and their capacity for devotion. You get tired, sometimes, of wit… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
A whetstone is no carving instrument, And yet it maketh sharp the carving tool; And if you see my efforts wrongly spent,… — Geoffrey Chaucer Copy Share Image
There are a whole lot of people who are so freakin' busy—they've so cluttered up their lives—they're at their wits' end. And… — Mike Yaconelli Copy Share Image
And though I might have learnt more wit and advanced my understanding by living in a Court, yet being dull, fearful and… — Margaret Cavendish Copy Share Image
Wit is a pleasure-giving thing, largely because it eludes reason; but in the apprehension of an absurdity through the working of the… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Any man knows when he is justified, and all the wits in the world cannot enlighten him on that point. The murderer… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Keynes was scarcely a 'revolutionary' in any real sense. He possessed the tactical wit to dress up ancient statist and inflationist fallacies… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Soul of the age! The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare , rise; I will not lodge thee by… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
