“If you've brains it's better than beauty - brains last, beauty doesn't.” — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
Good sense is at the bottom of everything: virtue, genius, wit, talent and taste. — Joseph Chenier Copy Share Image
Wine works the heart up, wakes the wit, There is no cure 'gainst age but it — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I don't read reviews about myself with any special eagerness or attention unless they are masterpieces of wit and acumen, and I… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Depending upon shock tactics is easy, whereas writing a good play is difficult. Pubic hair is no substitute for wit. — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
This man [Chesterfield], I thought, had been a Lord among wits; but I find he is only a wit among Lords. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A man's wits are better employed in bearing up under the misfortunes that lie upon him at present than in foreseeing those… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
If the men of wit and genius would resolve never to complain in their works of critics and detractors, the next age… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Voices and movements approach loss and remembrance profoundly, making poetry of the mundane and seasoning it with wit. — Deborah Jowitt Copy Share Image
Poetry is the honey of all flowers, the quintessence of all sciences, the marrow of wit, and the very phrase of angels. — Thomas Nashe Copy Share Image
Surely we have the wit and will to develop economically without despoiling the very environment we depend upon — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
Soul of the age! The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare , rise; I will not lodge thee by… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
In thy discourse, if thou desire to please; All such is courteous, useful, new, or wittie: Usefulness comes by labour, wit byease;… — George Herbert Copy Share Image
The only way therefore to try a Piece of Wit, is to translate it into a different Language: If it bears the… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
My dad's sense of humor was direct and sometimes surreal - his quick wit is well known amongst our family and friends.… — Tony Visconti Copy Share Image
“Cardinal Campeggio has implored Katherine to bow to the king's will, accept that her marriage is invalid and retire to a convent.… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“I miss you, sister," he say. "I miss me too," she say. Always too clever but not clever enough to know when… — Marlon James Copy Share Image
Humour is the making others act or talk absurdly and unconsciously; wit is the pointing out and ridiculing that absurdity consciously, and… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
My work requires acting at its most committed - it demands actors of enormous resilience, but also intelligence and wit. It doesn't… — Mike Leigh Copy Share Image
Any discussion of the problems of being funny in America will not make sense unless we substitute the word wit for humor.… — Florence King Copy Share Image
...a man estimable for his learning, amiable for his life, and venerable for his piety. Arbuthnot was a man of great comprehension,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Vaguely, as when you are studying a foreign language and read a page which at first you can make nothing of, till… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The most agreeable of all companions is a simple, frank man, without any high pretensions to an oppressive greatness; one who loves… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Did you think you could have the good without the evil? Did you think you could have the joy without the sorrow?… — Ray Stannard Baker Copy Share Image
It should be noted, as with so many legends and popularly accepted truths created out of political motivation: There, in fact, is… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
“You're maybe eighteen. Your mother didn't love you enough so you decided to pierce your lip and brand your body to piss… — Holly Hood Copy Share Image
Sometimes with the most intense pain a paralysis of sensibility occurs. The soul disintegrates--hence the deadly frost--the free power of the mind--the… — Novalis Copy Share Image
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