There are many wise men that have secret hearts and transparent countenances. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
True wit is everlasting, like the sun; describing all men, but described by none. — George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham Copy Share Image
“Father has a strengthening character like the sun and mother has a soothing temper like the moon.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
The liveliest effusions of wit and humour are simply what the reader of a novel has a right to expect. — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
But methings wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman… — William Wycherley Copy Share Image
This rudeness is a sauce to his good wit, Which gives men stomach to digest his words With better appetite. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
When a doubt is once received, men labour rather how to keep it a doubt still, than how to solve it; and… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Men whose wit has been mother of villainy once have learned from it to be evil in all things. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
“He wasn't aware of it but when he smiled he looked like an amiable bear. When he didn't smile he didn't look… — Emma Goldrick Copy Share Image
Modest plainness sets off sprightly wit, For works may have more with than does 'em good, As bodies perish through excess of… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Mass communication--wonder as it may be technologically and something to be appreciated and valued--presents us wit a serious daner, the danger of… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Wit is something more than a gymnastic trick of the intellect; true wit implies a beam of thought into the essence of… — Arthur Lynch Copy Share Image
Come Sleep! Oh Sleep, the certain knot of peace, the baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe, the poor man's wealth, the… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
A well-read writer, with good taste, is one who has the command of the wit of other men; he searches where knowledge… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
So that the life of a writer, whatever he might fancy to the contrary, was not so much a state of composition,… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
To have a reputation for being noble, she thought, is more confining than to be known as a wit. On the rare… — Libbie Block Copy Share Image
“Ah, but I’m not a gentleman,” said the Marquis. “I have it on the best of authority that I am only a… — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
Although it has been said by men of more wit than wisdom, and perhaps more malice than either, that women are naturally… — Mary Astell Copy Share Image
“When she walked by the two officers, they didn't recognize her. "Have you seen the luscious bonbon with the golden braids?" She… — Laura L. Sullivan Copy Share Image
Some feminist critics debate whether we take our meaning and sense of self from language and in that process become phallocentric ourselves,… — Paula Gunn Allen Copy Share Image
In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed. Not all… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind; Though fraught with all… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
When I look at American history and I look at what history means to me, I look at it as if it… — Kadir Nelson Copy Share Image
If you have that spark that inspires other people, if you have a spark that gives resources to other people, that shares… — Dacher Keltner Copy Share Image
What so pure, which envious tongues will spare? Some wicked wits have libell'd all the fair, With matchless impudence they style a… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Cannot you tell that? Every fool can tell that. It was the very day that young Hamlet was born, he that is… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Rob Chilson's mordant wit will keep you turning the pages until the wee hours! — Algis Budrys Copy Share Image
What Time hath scanted men in hair, he hath given them in wit. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Repetition is the only form of permanence that Nature can achieve. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
