The wit of men compared to that of women is like rouge compared to the rose. — Germain-Francois Poullain de Saint-Foix Copy Share Image
Well, I can throw a mean comeback, so there's that. I will crush them on wit. — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
[On being told their loquacious, domineering host was 'outspoken':] By whom? — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Generally speaking, there is more wit than talent in the world. Society swarms with witty people who lack talent. — Antoine Rivarol Copy Share Image
The puppeteer pulls the puppet's strings. The puppet pulls the audience's strings. The audience pulls the puppeteer's strings. — John Alejandro King Copy Share Image
Jealousy, an eminently credulous and suspicious passion, allows fancy the greatest possible play. But it does not bestow wit, it banishes all… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
There is hardly that person to be found who is not more concerned for the reputation of wit and sense, than honesty… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
Wit is the clash and reconcilement of incongruities, the meeting of extremes around a corner — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
Blue Boy proves that if you don't quite fit in, then you might as well stand out with as much wit, color… — Josh Kilmer-Purcell Copy Share Image
I appreciate simplicity, true beauty that lasts over time, and a little wit and eclecticism that make life more fun. — Elliott Erwitt Copy Share Image
A wit should no more be sincere, than a woman constant; one argues a decay of parts, as to other of beauty. — William Congreve Copy Share Image
Conflict acting on intelligence creates imagination. Faced with conflict, creatures are forced to imagine what will happen, where the next threat will… — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image
Wit is artificial; humor is natural. Wit is accidental; humor is inevitable. Wit is born of conscious effort; humor, of the allotted… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
On a throne at the center of a sense of humor sits a capacity for irony. All wit rests on a cheerful… — George Will Copy Share Image
...for though she was ordinary, she possessed health, wit, courage, charm, and cheerfulness. But because she was not beautiful, no one ever… — M.M. Kaye Copy Share Image
I can only do it if there's humour, wit, comedy and drama. If you can get audiences laughing and then suddenly turn… — Nigel Cole Copy Share Image
We pray for a generation of girls who will display their wit, their intelligence, their modest charm, their integrity, their loveliness rather… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
Alternative medicine people call themselves "holistic" and say it's the "whole" approach. Well, if it's the whole approach, let it be the… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
I am sorry the infernal Divinities, who visit mankind with diseases, and are therefore at perpetual war with Doctors, should have prevented… — Erasmus Darwin 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
I've traveled all over the world for the Institute, but I never dreamed I'd meet someone like you." "Strong?" A chuckle escaped… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
“The creative process is a love story that never ends. The ideas are like suitors competing for your attention. You may have… — Jaeda DeWalt Copy Share Image
I've always been willing to take challenges, I grew up taking challenges: being an only child, having a mother, no father, I've… — Teddy Pendergrass Copy Share Image
From whence it happens, that they which trust to books, do as they that cast up many little sums into a greater,… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
I don't want to lose ever. I don't want to lose at anything. I want to make weight faster than the guy… — Daniel Cormier Copy Share Image
If we did not know all His retorts by heart, if we had not taken the sting out of them by incessant… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Here lies a Proof that Wit can never be Defence enough against Mortality — Aphra Behn Copy Share Image
The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne. — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Sins may be forgiven through repentance, but no act of wit will ever justify them. — Thomas Sherlock Copy Share Image
Reason is mechanical, wit chemical, and genius organic spirit. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image