That's what cricket's all about: two batsmen pitting their wits against one another — Fred Trueman Copy Share Image
Confidence in conversation has a greater share than wit. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“I should think a dead language would be rather boring, socially speaking.” — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
He is a first-rate collector who can, upon all occasions, collect his wits. — George D. Prentice Copy Share Image
Expose foes wit my hocus pocus flows, they froze now suckas idolize my chosen blows — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
Roscoe was spiritually illegal, a bootlegger of the soul, a mythic creature made of words and wit and wild deeds and boundless… — William Kennedy Copy Share Image
Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good; and that Wit which sets us at a distance from… — Mary Astell Copy Share Image
A man has to have sensibility, wit, mystery, tolerance, and strength... Romance also helps. — Carolina Herrera Copy Share Image
MIke Lee writes with honesty, penetration, wit and the ability to surprise the reader with an unexpected turn from time to time… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
As the sea-crab swimmeth always against the stream, so doth wit always against wisdom. — Pythagoras 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
His jest shall savour but a shallow wit, when thousands more weep than did laugh it. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
There are some people as obtuse in recognizing an argument as they are in appreciating wit. You couldn't drive it into their… — Douglas William Jerrold Copy Share Image
I like pushing the envelope. I like pushing myself and the audience, whether it's a TV show or live. I like to… — Keith Barry Copy Share Image
Why should I seek for love or study it? It is of God and passes human wit; I study hatred with great… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
and I laugh, I can still laugh, who can't laugh when the whole thing is so ridiculous that only the insane, the… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
A Wise man knows that much of what he says and does is commonplace and trivial. His thoughts are not all solemn… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
Why was I chosen?' 'Such questions cannot be answered,' said Gandalf. 'You may be sure that it was not for any merit… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What woeful stuff this madrigal would be, In some starved hackney sonneteer, or me! But let a lord once own the happy… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Wit implies hatred or contempt of folly and crime, produces its effects by brisk shocks of surprise, uses the whip of scorpions… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
A cabaret song has got to be written - for the middle voice, ideally - because you've got to hear the wit… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
Be present. Make love. Make tea. Avoid small talk. Embrace conversation. Buy a plant, water it. Make your bed. Make someone else's… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Peter Conners stunning prose poems are packed with keen sensitivity, dreaminess, and wit. I love his time travels, the vibrant layering of… — Naomi Shihab Nye 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
“Erm…I don’t know maybe for kissing me and tasting so damn delicious, maybe for holding my hand in public, maybe for looking… — Becca Lee Copy Share Image
Behind every footballing tough guy there lurks a mincing aesthete with a love of art for art's sake, football for football's sake.… — Simon Barnes Copy Share Image
I have always considered The Merry Wives one of the worst plays, if not altogether the worst, that Shakespeare has left us.… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
“Even if you have the wit to look by yourself in a bush away from the other children, there are not many… — Yasunari Kawabata Copy Share Image
Isn't success ridiculously easy, once it begins to succeed? ... after the strain and sweat and pushing until the very groins of… — Fannie Hurst Copy Share Image
