A man's reception depends upon his coat; his dismissal upon the wit he shows. — Pierre-Jean de Beranger Copy Share Image
Accept a miracle, instead of wit See two dull lines, with Stanhope's pencil writ. — Edward Young Copy Share Image
Wit lives in the present, but genius survives the future. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
“You can't take a crash course in comedy, there is no crash course in comedy.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Some of the best work done to combat the Republicans has been wit and humor. — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
Giving votes in exchange for ideological support. To wit: identity politics for homosexuals. — Harry Hay Copy Share Image
Men of wit, learning and virtue might strike out every offensive or unbecoming passage from plays. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
It is always the same: women bedeck themselves with jewels and furs, and men with wit and quotations. — Maurice Chevalier Copy Share Image
Wounds and hardships provoke our courage, and when our fortunes are at the lowest, our wits and minds are commonly at the… — Pierre Charron Copy Share Image
Ryan Alvanos is an offbeat, insanely inventive singer-songwriter who sneaks up on you with a sly wit and subtle power. — Steve Morse 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
Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is, that it gives one the greater freedom of… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
A fire broke out backstage in a theatre. The clown came out to warn the public; they thought it was a joke… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“Who values the past lives sentimentally. Who optimizes the present grabs opportunity. Who balances time creates harmony. Who disturbs harmony leads complexity.… — Angelica Hopes Copy Share Image
Yeah, man. It's time to let de people get good herbs and smoke. Government's a joke. All dey wan' is ya smoke… — Bob Marley Copy Share Image
Men ought to find the difference between saltiness and bitterness. Certainly, he that hath a satirical vein, as he maketh others afraid… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
It has always been the perogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It's just that none of us had the wit or talent to make them into songs. We made them into life, which… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
The time the moon is going back, the blood that is in a person does be weakening, but when the moon is… — Lady Gregory Copy Share Image
I have read my books by many lights, hoarding their beauty, their wit or wisdom against the dark days when I would… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
Nine Years Under is a sparkling debut--- brimming with love and bursting with life. Booker's Baltimore is equal parts The Wire and… — Tayari Jones Copy Share Image
It requires enormous presence of mind or rather quickness of wit, when opening your eyes to seize hold as it were of… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
In I Praise My Destroyer, Diane Ackerman demonstrates once again her love for the specific language that rises from the juncture of… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
Zeus Is Dead is full of laugh-out-loud moments, lashings of sly wit, moan-worthy puns, and a complex, fast-paced storyline. There aren't very… — Jody Lynn Nye Copy Share Image
Born Losers is a beautiful piece of writing. Scott Sandage is history's Dickens; his bleak house, the late nineteenth century world of… — William S. McFeely Copy Share Image
I am at a loss to understand why people hold Miss Austen's novels at so high a rate, which seem to me… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I'm beginning to feel that the real endangered species on planet earth are not the whales and the elephants but those of… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
An expensive ad represents the toil, attention, testing, wit, art, and skill of many people. Far more thought and care go into… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
