He drew a circle that shut me out- Heretic , rebel, a thing to flout. But love and I had the wit… — Edwin Markham Copy Share Image
Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run amuck, and tilt at all I meet. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The mental disease of the present generation is impatience of study, contempt of the great masters of ancient wisdom, and a disposition… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Lingerer, my brain is on fire with impatience; and you tarry so long!” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
There is more jealousy between rival wits than rival beauties, for vanity has no sex. But in both cases there must be… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Metaphor is, as a common feature of linguistic practice, an incidental expediency, a homely administering of first-aid by mother-wit to jams or… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
On a throne at the center of a sense of humor sits a capacity for irony. All wit rests on a cheerful… — George Will Copy Share Image
There must be love, and understanding, to betray. Most men haven't the wit or the honor for betrayal: not to know it… — Janet Morris Copy Share Image
For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech, To stir men’s blood: I… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Ohhh, I'm in luv, I'm in luv I'm in luv, I'm in luv wit chu And there ain't nothin nobody can say… — Da Brat Copy Share Image
“I'm living so far beyond my means that we may almost be said to be living apart.” — Saki Copy Share Image
If faith itself has different dresses worn, What wonder modes in wit should take their turn? — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Fairy tales were not my escape from reality as a child; rather, they were my reality -- for mine was a world… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
Wits and swords are as straws against the wisdom of the Darkness... — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
I think puns are not just the lowest form of wit, but the lowest form of human behavior. — John Oliver Copy Share Image
Wit in women is apt to have bad consequences; like a sword without a scabbard, it wounds the wearer and provokes assailants. — Elizabeth Montagu Copy Share Image
“If you've brains it's better than beauty - brains last, beauty doesn't.” — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
The goodness of your true pun is in the direct ratio of its intolerability. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
A sentence is but a cheveril glove to a good wit; How quickly the wrong side may be turned outward! — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
In matching your wits against yourself you take on the shrewdest and wiliest antagonist you can have, and consequently a victorious outcome… — Dorothea Brande Copy Share Image
He pushed himself to his feet. “Don’t lie, Sansa. I am malformed, scarred, and small, but…” she could see him groping “…abed,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
While it may not heighten our sympathy, wit widens our horizons by its flashes, revealing remote hidden affiliations and drawing laughter from… — Marie Taylor Collins Swabey Copy Share Image
