In all thy humours, whether grave or mellow, Thou'rt such a touchy, testy, pleasant fellow, Hast so much wit and mirth and… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Love must kiss that mortal's eyesWho hopes to see fair Arcady.No gold can buy you entrance there;But beggared Love may go all… — Henry Cuyler Bunner Copy Share Image
Out of the thousand writers huffing and puffing through movieland there are scarcely fifty men and women of wit or talent. The… — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
A change of strategy suggests there is a strategy. I don't see a strategy that deals with - that concerns with dealing… — David Ignatius Copy Share Image
There seems almost a general wish of descrying the capacity and undervaluing the labour of the novelist, and of slighting the performances… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
It is all too easy for a society to measure itself against some abstract philosophical principle or political slogan. But in the… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
The glossary of politics is so full of euphemistic words and phrases - as in the nature of things it must be… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
Whatever has "wit enough to keep it sweet" defies corruption and outlasts all time; but the wit must be of that outward… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Some men's wit is like a dark lantern, which serves their own turn and guides them their own way, but is never… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I have, over the years brought an enormous number of plays to television starting obviously with Nicholas Nickelby and then things like… — Colin Callender Copy Share Image
Fashion is always silly, for, before it can spread far, it must be calculated for silly people; as examples of sense, wit,… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
A writer's voice is not character alone, it is not style alone; it is far more. A writer's voice line the stroke… — Patricia Lee Gauch Copy Share Image
Let the master praise him, and say, 'Here ye do well.' For, I assure you, there is no such whetstone to sharpen… — Roger Ascham Copy Share Image
With the latitude of unbounded scurrility, it is easy enough to attain the character of a wit, especially when it is considered… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Alas, how right the ancient saying is: We, who are old, are nothing else but noise And shape. Like mimicries of dreams… — Euripides Copy Share Image
It may be remarked in general, that the laugh of men of wit is for the most part but a feint, constrained… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
But pure wit is akin to Puritanism; to the perfect and painful consciousness of the final fact in the universe. Very briefly,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I love hotels. I generally prefer smaller boutique hotels to large chains, especially when attention and wit has been given to interesting… — Joanna Going Copy Share Image
Besides the general infusion of wit to heighten civility, the direct splendor of intellectual power is ever welcome in fine society, as… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nay, the greatest wits and poets, too, cease to live; Homer, their prince, sleeps now in the same forgotten sleep as do… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
you can give it a long name if you like, but I'm an old-fashioned woman and I call it mother-wit, and it's… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
There is not less wit nor invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first… — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
Indeed, so far from being humorous, the male American is the most abnormally serious creature who ever existed.. It is only fair… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“[I]f you seek in every way to minimise my firm beliefs by your anti-feminist attacks, please recall that a small dagger or… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity,… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
If you were a kid in the 1950s, and you got nightmares from a story in a horror comic book, you have… — Richard Corliss Copy Share Image
Thought and knowledge are natures in which apparatus and pretension avail nothing. Gowns, and pecuniary foundations, though of towns of gold, can… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I can't stay friends with anyone who doesn't have a passion for something; and, generally speaking, artistic people, creative people carry it… — Alan King Copy Share Image
I am not here to judge whether people are locked in poverty because of themselves or because of the society in which… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
I love to have battles of the wits with people that can dish fast and dirty - and it leads to problems… — Alton Brown Copy Share Image
Two goddesses now must Cyprus adore; The Muses are ten, and the Graces are four; Stella's wit is so charming, so sweet… — Callimachus Copy Share Image
What do you do when the story changes in midlife? When a tale you have told yourself turns out to be a… — Gail Caldwell Copy Share Image
If, as Marshall McLuhan once taught us, the medium is the message, then Derfner's medium-this lovely, discursive amalgamation of wit and smarts-is… — Philip Gambone Copy Share Image
We admire Chaucer for his sturdy English wit… But though it is full of good sense and humanity, it is not transcendent… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
That night as I lay in bed, I thought of several things I could have said and mourned the fact that my… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Reggie Watts is a most unusual talent: a huge vocal range, a natural musicality, and a sidesplitting wit. Is he a comedian?… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I have no wit, no words, no tears; My heart within me like a stone Is numb'd too much for hopes or… — Christina Rossetti Copy Share Image
It seems to be saying perpetually; 'I am the end of the nineteenth century; I am glad they built me of iron;… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
“What have you done to your hair?” Mom’s broken voice said, pinning me back to this tiny hospital room. “Holy shit!” Icka… — Phoebe Kitanidis Copy Share Image
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