Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run amuck, and tilt at all I meet. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise. — Novalis Copy Share Image
Sharp men, like sharp needles, break easy, though they pierce quick. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Wit is better as a seasoning than as a whole dish by itself. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
In the whole history of the world there is but one thing that money cannot buy...to wit--the wag of a dog's tail. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Wit is a treacherous dart. It is perhaps the only weapon with which it is possible to stab oneself in one's own… — Geoffrey Bocca Copy Share Image
Criticism is as often a trade as a science, requiring, as it does, more health than wit, more labour than capacity, more… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
The desire which urges us to deserve praise strengthens our good qualities, and praise given to wit, valour, and beauty, tends to… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The old notion that brevity is the essence of wit has succumbed to the modern idea that tedium is the essence of… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
For the thinker the world is a thought; for the wit, an image; for the enthusiast, a dream; for the inquirer, truth. — Ludwig Buchner Copy Share Image
I go through stages. Randomly, I'll be attracted to a crazy rocker with tattoos. And I find that I'm extremely attracted to… — Ashley Greene Copy Share Image
Young gentlemen with literary aspirations usually start a new university magazine, which for wit and pungency is designed to eclipse all such… — E. F. Benson Copy Share Image
I shall endeavour to enliven Morality with Wit, and to temper Wit with Morality, that my Readers may, if possible, both Ways… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Season of Miracles is a triumphant story with a heart of gold. Laced with wit and wisdom, the story had me chuckling… — Deborah Raney Copy Share Image
By wit we search divine aspect above, By wit we learn what secrets science yields, By wit we speak, by wit the… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
We do not claim that punning is legitimate wit. Wit consists in combination of ideas, punning in combination of words only. We… — Harriet Hosmer Copy Share Image
Wit and humor seem to always factor into this - there's a tongue-in-cheek tone you get when you take on a formalist… — Alexander Weinstein Copy Share Image
“Expectation. That is the true soul of art. If you can give a man more than he expects, then he will laud… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
The wise wo/man knows there is something to be learned from everyone. S/He knows that know matter how bad or good said… — Isaiah Harden (Me Copy Share Image
...the wonderful poems interpreting with equal magic the romance of strange lands and times, or the modern soul, naked and unashamed, as… — Israel Zangwill Copy Share Image
I mean everything's a lot more smoother. It's just calm. IN the beginning, I had the typical attitude of a young rapper… — The Notorious B.I.G Copy Share Image
Well, in that hit you miss. She'll not be hit With Cupid's arrow. She hath Dian's wit, And, in strong proff of… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Rush Limbaugh is a principled conservative, master broadcaster and stinging social critic who has won his mammoth following through his own energy,… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Over his illustrious career, John Harris has explored the most challenging bioethical questions with insight, engaging wit, and eloquence. In Enhancing Evolution,… — Ezekiel Emanuel Copy Share Image
When I am writing, I am trying to find out who I am, who we are, what we're capable of, how we… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud,… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
It is very easy to shun someone who is deliberately cruel, and everyone loathes a man who is brutal and vicious. Such… — Sharon Shinn Copy Share Image
Shoulda sent a thank you note, you little hoe Now Imma wrap your coffin wit a bow — Nicki Minaj Copy Share Image
In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge. — George Herbert Copy Share Image
