Good sense is at the bottom of everything: virtue, genius, wit, talent and taste. — Joseph Chenier Copy Share Image
“Spanish—how shall I say this?—is like Portuguese spoken with a speech impediment.” — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
“Two blind men waited at the end of an era, contemplating beauty.” — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Wit sometimes enables us to act rudely with impunity. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The hapless wit has his labors always to begin, the call for novelty is never satisfied, and one jest only raises expectation… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A fool may scrawl on a slate and if no one has the wit to wipe it clean for a thousand years,… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
My wit is more polished than your mustache. The truth which I speak strikes more sparks from men's hearts than your spurs… — Edmond Rostand Copy Share Image
The picture placed the busts between Adds to the thought much strength; Wisdom and Wit are little seen, But Folly 's at… — Jane Brereton Copy Share Image
To teach vain Wits that Science little known, T' admire Superior Sense, and doubt their own! — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I have found nothing half so good / As my long-planned half solitude, / Where I can sit up half the night… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
They who on meare curiositie (where no urgent necessitie requireth) try whether their children may not as birds be nourished without sucking,… — William Gouge Copy Share Image
Brian Turner has given us not so much a memoir as a mediation, rendered with grace and wit and wisdom. If you… — Larry Heinemann Copy Share Image
[When asked at age 79 why her Paris apartment was located up many flights of stairs at the top of the building:]… — Sarah Bernhardt Copy Share Image
“True, beneath the human façade, I was an interloper, an alien whose ship had crashed beyond hope of repair in the backwoods… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
Popular music had never had lyrical sophistication of this type [like Bob Dylan]; wit, to be sure, but "Darkness at the break… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear much; always to distrust our own reason, and sometimes… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“I leaned against the desk, ran my hand over my father’s paperwork, and picked up a pen. Turning around, I shoved it… — Shannon A. Thompson Copy Share Image
It is not virtue, wisdom, valour, wit, Strength, comeliness of shape, or amplest merit, That woman's love can win, or long inherit;… — John Milton 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
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
...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
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
Vladimir Nabokov was a writer who cared nothing for music and whose favorite sport was the pursuit, capture, and murder of butterflies.… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I don't want to be classed as a humorist. It makes me feel guilty. I've never read a good tough quotable female… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
When I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Of all wit's uses, the main one is to live well with who has none. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When one wishes to play the wit, he sometimes wander a little from the truth. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
Many, affecting wit beyond their power, Have got to be a dear fool for an hour. — George Herbert Copy Share Image
“If you've brains it's better than beauty - brains last, beauty doesn't.” — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
![“[When asked at age 79 why her Paris apartment was located up many flights of stairs at the top of the building:] It's the only way I can still make the hearts of men beat faster.” quote by Sarah Bernhardt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3d8/sarah-bernhardt-15072_age_when-asked-at-age-79-why-her-paris-apart_2540662.jpg)
![“Popular music had never had lyrical sophistication of this type [like Bob Dylan]; wit, to be sure, but "Darkness at the break of noon/Shadows even the silver spoon/The handmade blade, the child's balloon/Eclipses both the sun and moon/To understand you know too soon/ There is no sense in trying"?…” quote by Bob Dylan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d66/bob-dylan-168_balloons_popular-music-had-never-had-lyrical-soph_1402473.jpg)
