Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
There still remains to mortify a wit The many-headed monster of the pit. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
For the qualities of sheer wit and humor, Swift had no superior, ancient or modern. — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
Two negatives don't make a positive, any more than two half-wits make a wit. — Neil Kinnock Copy Share Image
“Ugh! only she could meet a gorgeous new guy and make a fool of herself. Remy thought.” — Hope Worthington Copy Share Image
My wit is sharper then the finest mustache, and when I walk among men I make truths ring like spurs. — Edmond Rostand Copy Share Image
Artists must be men of wit, consciously or unconsciously philosophers; read, study and think a great deal of life... — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
I never have frustrations. The reason is to wit: Of at first I don't succeed, I quit! — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
When someone has the wit to coin a useful phrase, it ought to be acclaimed and broadcast or it will perish. — Jack Smith Copy Share Image
Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, But God to man doth speak in solitude. — John Stuart Blackie Copy Share Image
A perfect judge will read each word of wit with the same spirit that its author writ. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Wit, like hunger, will be with great difficulty restrained from falling on vice and ignorance, where there is great plenty and variety… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Leonard Cohen can give you "Leonard Cohen" - the self-deprecating wit, the slow, considered speech, the perfectly-honed anecdote - Tom Waits is… — Sylvie Simmons Copy Share Image
Didn't you have any sadistic nannies who told you these tales to keep you quiet and well behaved at night? Heavens, what's… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
Some wits, too, like oracles, deal in ambiguities, but not with equal success; for though ambiguities are the first excellence of an… — Edward Young Copy Share Image
Potluck Supper with Meeting to Follow is a marvel, deftly examining the connections between art and everyday life. Andy Sturdevant's lively, unique… — Joe Meno Copy Share Image
Well, something must be done for May, The time is drawing nigh-- To figure in the Catalogue, And woo the public eye.… — Thomas Hood Copy Share Image
To try to save for everyone, for the hostile and independent as well as the committed, some of the health that flows… — Wallace Stegner 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
Wit must be without effort. Wit is play, not work; a nimbleness of the fancy, not a laborious effort of the will;… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Ko Un's poems evoke the open creativity and fluidity of nature, and funny turns and twists of Mind. Mind is sometimes registered… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
I had the good fortune to direct my first professional production with one of my Dad's masterpieces, The Man Who Came To… — Chris Hart Copy Share Image
There's no doubt about it. Arcadia is Tom Stoppard's richest, most ravishing comedy to date, a play of wit, intellect, language, brio… — Vincent Canby Copy Share Image
There's nothing like being in fashion. A man that has once got his character up for a wit is always sure of… — Washington Irving 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
I wouldn't care to speculate about what it is in Westlake's psyche that makes him so good at writing about Parker, much… — Terry Teachout Copy Share Image
When Vanity kissed Vanity, a hundred happy Junes ago, he pondered o'er her breathlessly, and, that all men might ever know, he… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
There learned arts do flourish in great honour And poets's wits are had in peerless price; Religion hath lay power, to rest… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
A man does not please long when he has only species of wit. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
O Fortune, how thy restless, wavering state has fraught with cares my troubled wit! — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
One that hath wine as a chain about his wits, such a one lives no life at all. — Alcaeus Copy Share Image
“Respect cannot be inherited, respect is the result of right actions.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
