His wit invites you by his looks to come, But when you knock, it never is at home. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Die Hard represents the class of modern action pictures and the standard by which they must be judged. Few films falling into… — James Berardinelli Copy Share Image
That night as I lay in bed, I thought of several things I could have said and mourned the fact that my… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her criticism, and drinks her… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Upon meeting, you're judged by your clothes, upon parting you're judged by your wits. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
In due course we arrive, if wit can be said that we ever fully arrive. The truth is there are destinations beyond… — Richard Bode Copy Share Image
If you can't convince them [with your logic] then just confound them [with your wit.] — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
The Sarajevans have a very particular world view - a mordant wit coupled with this unbearable sadness and... truckloads of guts, you… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
Competition is what keeps me playing the psychological warfare of matching skill against skill and wit against wit. — Lou Brock Copy Share Image
Want is a bitter and a hateful good, Because its virtues are not understood; Yet many things, impossible to thought, Have been… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself. — James Thurber Copy Share Image
Humour is the describing the ludicrous as it is in itself; wit is the exposing it, by comparing or contrasting it with… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The Penny Post will do more for the circulation of ideas, for the fostering of domestic affections, for the humanizing of the… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
If, as Marshall McLuhan once taught us, the medium is the message, then Derfner's medium-this lovely, discursive amalgamation of wit and smarts-is… — Philip Gambone Copy Share Image
“Creativity without discipline will struggle, creativity with discipline will succeed.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Learn to write when you would rather sleep. Learn to exercise this gift of language when no conscious portion of your wits… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
A man of remarkable genius may afford to pass by a piece of wit, if it happen to border on abuse. A… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
Love must kiss that mortal's eyesWho hopes to see fair Arcady.No gold can buy you entrance there;But beggared Love may go all… — Henry Cuyler Bunner Copy Share Image
Blue Boy proves that if you don't quite fit in, then you might as well stand out with as much wit, color… — Josh Kilmer-Purcell Copy Share Image
“Well, well," said he, "do not make yourself unhappy. If you are a good girl for the next ten years, I will… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Well then that's our date confirmed. I am excited! Most girls want to know if I have long term plans to start… — Lucy Robinson Copy Share Image
O, once in each man's life, at least, Good luck knocks at his door; And wit to seize the flitting guest Need… — Anonymous 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
“Did you just say you Think Mansfield Park is boring? Get out of my house.” — Joel Derfner Copy Share Image