President Reagan achieved such successes because when you sat in a room with him, there could be over 1,000 people in the… — Elton Gallegly Copy Share Image
“The problem is you make the tricks look good. You are a brilliant acrobat, and a witty comedian. You are skillful. People… — Kelli Swofford Nielsen Copy Share Image
“Miss Taverner took the whip and reins in her hands, and mounted into the driving-seat, scorning assistance. "Take your orders from Miss… — Georgette Heyer 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
Wit is the clash and reconcilement of incongruities; the meeting of extremes round a corner. — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
A book full of brilliance imparts some of it even to its opponents. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“He drew a circle that shut me out- Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout. But love and I had the wit to… — Edwin Markham Copy Share Image
There were moments of despondency when Shakespeare thought himself no poet, and Raphael no painter; when the greatest wits have doubted the… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Gran, for the gods' love, it's talk like yours that starts riots!" I said keeping my voice down. "Will you just put… — Tamora Pierce Copy Share Image
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinction. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It seems with wit and good-nature, Utrum horum mavis accipe. Taste and good-nature are universally connected. — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
Dad was synonymous with his charm and wit and grace, and it was sort of the perfect way to go for him. — Jennifer Grant Copy Share Image
“Respect cannot be inherited, respect is the result of right actions.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
[When asked at age 79 why her Paris apartment was located up many flights of stairs at the top of the building:]… — Sarah Bernhardt Copy Share Image
“The best thing to learn from any government is that it does not get affacted by what other people talk or think… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
As the sea-crab swimmeth always against the stream, so doth wit always against wisdom. — Pythagoras Copy Share Image
To aspire to be superhuman is a most discreditable admission that you lack the guts, the wit, the moderating judgment to be… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“GoogleEarthlike soars his mind, through clouds where snowstorms brew; New York State has dropped away, and Massachusetts flew, and Newfoundland is ice-entombed… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Magda was reading a book by a Trappist, in a better mood, and I was sitting on the edge of the bed,… — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
An epigram is the marriage of wit and wisdom; a wisecrack, their divorce. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
A writer's voice is not character alone, it is not style alone; it is far more. A writer's voice line the stroke… — Patricia Lee Gauch Copy Share Image
