I am a professional comedian, a published novelist, and a general wit for hire. — Dominic Holland Copy Share Image
Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet to run amok and tilt at all I meet. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The idea of what the public will think prevents the public from ever thinking at all, and acts as a spell on… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I have ever thought so superstitiously of wit, that I fear I have committed idolatry against wisdom. — John Lyly Copy Share Image
“Life is meaning less when you realized that you are about to die. Till then, everything negative however trifle they may be,… — Ankur Basu Roy Copy Share Image
Some brains are barren grounds, that will not bring seed or fruit forth, unless they are well manured with the old wit… — Margaret Cavendish Copy Share Image
Men of humor are always in some degree men of genius; wits are rarely so, although a man of genius may, amongst… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“Loneliness is a passive state. It is a compulsion when you are left on your own by others. Solitude, on the other… — Alok Mishra Copy Share Image
Any euphemism ceases to be euphemistic after a time and the true meaning begins to show through. It's a losing game, but… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
Sometimes we are inclined to class those who are once-and-a-half witted with the half-witted, because we appreciate only a third part of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The greater the stupidity, the greater the clarity. Stupidity is brief and guileless, while wit equivocates and hides. Wit is a scoundrel,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Imagine sitting down to an eight ounce steak, and then, imagine the room filled wit 45 to 50 people with empty bowls...For… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
“Then the small man suddenly ran after them and said: "I want to get my haircut. I say, do you know a… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
A perfect Judge will read each work of Wit With the same spirit that its author writ: Survey the Whole, nor seek… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
there is not the least wit in my nature. I am a very matter of fact, plain spoken being, and may blunder… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Soon as I see her walk up in the club, I'm a flirt. Winking eyes at me, when I roll up on… — R. Kelly Copy Share Image
Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless we realize… — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
Jesus and Shakespeare are fragments of the soul, and by love I conquer and incorporate them in my own conscious domain. His… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Writing itself, if not misunderstood and abused, becomes a way of empowering the writing self. It converts anger and disappointment into deliberate… — Ted Solotaroff Copy Share Image
The very essence of gravity was design, and, consequently, deceit; it was a taught trick to gain credit of the world for… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Life in the country teaches one that the really stimulating things are the quiet, natural things, and the really wearisome things are… — Beverley Nichols Copy Share Image
When I was young, some women told me they loved me for my long eyelashes. I accepted. Later it was for my… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Statesmen and legislators, standing so completely within the institution, never distinctly and nakedly behold it. They speak of moving society, but they… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I was actually permitting myself to experience a sickening sense of disappointment: but rallying my wits, and recollecting my principles, I at… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
In times like ours, where the growing complexity of life leaves us barely the time to read the newspapers, where the map… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
[D]emocracy will soon degenerate into an anarchy, such an anarchy that every man will do what is right in his own eyes… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else unless it is an enemy. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Every age has its pleasures, its style of wit, and its own ways. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Copy Share Image
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