An ounce of wit that is bought, Is worth a pound that is taught. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Hey, have you heard that one about the difference between me, Wit, and my loutish cousin, Hilarity? No? Okay, so I walk… — Chip Kidd Copy Share Image
'The Observer's Very Short List' is another example of how the Observer Media Group offers its readers the most cutting-edge information, available… — Jared Kushner Copy Share Image
I'm filled with admiration, delight, and gratitude at discovering James Lasdun's poems in A Jump Start. He has wit, speed, intelligence, a… — Anthony Hecht 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
It is of no use to possess a lively wit if it is not of the right proportion: the perfection of a… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
I’m not a romantic, I’m a half-wit. Only stupid people would think I’m smart. I’m not something anyone should know. I’m a… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
I have no great quickness of apprehension or wit which is so remarkable in some clever men, for instance Huxley — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
When we had to survive on our wits, gather and kill our food from scratch and be more at the mercy of… — Philippa Perry Copy Share Image
She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
A woman of haughty and fierce carriage, of a nimble wit and active spirit, a very voluble tongue, more bold than a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nature and society are so replete with startling contrasts that wit often consists in the mere statement and comparison of facts, as… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
The silliness-much of which is clearly intentional-is blended with some genuine grandeur. The Pixar touch is evident in the precision of the… — A. O. Scott 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
Humor does not include sarcasm, invalid irony, sardonicism, innuendo, or any other form of cruelty. When these things are raised to a… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
So you think that you're a failure, do you? Well, you probably are. What's wrong with that? In the first place, if… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
There learned arts do flourish in great honour And poets's wits are had in peerless price; Religion hath lay power, to rest… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
