I was always matching wits with authority. Pondering over my past and present hassles, I began to wonder why my life had… — Bill Lee 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
Probably there is an imperceptible touch of something permanent that one feels instinctively to adhere to true humour, whereas wit may be… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
He was drunk upon the average once a day, and penitent upon an equally fair calculation once a month; and when he… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
My liege, and madam, to expostulate What majesty should be, what duty is, Why day is day, night night, and time is… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Writing, madam, is a mechanic part of wit. A gentleman should never go beyond a song or a billet. — George Etherege 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
If we were left solely to the wordy wit of legislators in Congress for our guidance, uncorrected by the seasonal experience and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Both were military. That was clear.Reacher could tell by their haircuts. No civilian barber would be as pragmatic or as brutal.” — Lee Child Copy Share Image
The most agreeable of all companions is a simple, frank man, without any high pretensions to an oppressive greatness; one who loves… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This rudeness is a sauce to his good wit, Which gives men stomach to digest his words With better appetite. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Rob Chilson's mordant wit will keep you turning the pages until the wee hours! — Algis Budrys Copy Share Image
Books fall open, you fall in, delighted where you've never been; hear voices not once heard before, reach world on world through… — David McCord Copy Share Image
The greater the stupidity, the greater the clarity. Stupidity is brief and guileless, while wit equivocates and hides. Wit is a scoundrel,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
A Christian's wit is offensive light, A beam that aids, but never grieves the sight; Vig'rous in age as in the flush… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Alan Ginsberg was fabulous. The man is so filled with energy. He's 65 years old and he's just loaded with energy and… — Ray Manzarek Copy Share Image
No charm, no humor, no wit -- and a personality which can only be described as 'icky.' . — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
I am sorry the infernal Divinities, who visit mankind with diseases, and are therefore at perpetual war with Doctors, should have prevented… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast. Yet it must be confessed that wit given an edge to sense, and… — William Penn Copy Share Image
For all of us, self-briefing before going out or starting a project sharpens artistic wit. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
If she be fair and wise, fairness and wit, The one's for use, the other useth it. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Sometimes we are inclined to class those who are once-and-a-half witted with the half-witted, because we appreciate only a third part of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I love Tom Cruise. When Penelope Cruz is through with him, I'm next. — Christina Aguilera Copy Share Image
“At last a lifetime ambition of mine to become a pimp was satisfied.” — Jack Woodford Copy Share Image
