Nature and society are so replete with startling contrasts that wit often consists in the mere statement and comparison of facts, as… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
There is nothing that more betrays a base ungenerous spirit than the giving of secret stabs to a man's reputation. Lampoons and… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Good writing and dark wit always excite me and they come together thrillingly in this book. It has a quiet grip on… — Jenny Diski Copy Share Image
Mere words will not do. They must convey the color, charm, and pulse of life. They must have a private twinkle of… — Corra May Harris Copy Share Image
You can make a sordid thing sound like a brilliant drawing-room comedy. Probably a fear we have of facing up to the… — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
Hubert Humphrey with kids"Be clear where America stands. Human brotherhood and equal opportunity for every man, woman, and child, we are committed… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
Wit is its own remedy. Liberty and commerce bring it to its true standard. The only danger is the laying an embargo.… — Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury Copy Share Image
That which we call wit consists much in quickness and tricks, and is so full of lightness that it seldom goes with… — King James I Copy Share Image
You cannot tell a poor boy from a small country town on the plains of South Dakota who has had the opportunity… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
Alas, sir, how fell you besides your five wits?" Malvolio: "Fool, there was never a man so notoriously abused. I am as… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Before we do, I suggest you take a break. If you need to go to the bathroom, this is a good time.… — Pseudonymous Bosch Copy Share Image
Both wit and understanding are trifles without integrity. The ignorant peasant without fault is greater than the philosopher with many. What is… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Learn to write when you would rather sleep. Learn to exercise this gift of language when no conscious portion of your wits… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
“My name is Mr Bread." He began writing his name neatly on the board. "But you can call me Peter." Suddenly there… — David Walliams Copy Share Image
Beauty without wit offers nothing but the enjoyment of its material charms, whilst witty ugliness captivates by the charms of the mind,… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
Silence is one great art of conversation. He is not a fool who knows when to hold his tongue; and a person… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Genius is, to be sure, not a matter of arbitrariness, but rather of freedom, just as wit, love, and faith, which once… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Nirvana's success drew attention to a marketing demographic previously ignored by the mainstream, and inadvertently started a gold rush with advertising executives,… — Kim Thayil Copy Share Image
Perpetual aiming at wit is a very bad part of conversation. It is done to support a character: it generally fails; it… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit:… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There is going to come a day when everyone here is going to need keen observation and wit to ridicule George W.… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
'The Observer's Very Short List' is another example of how the Observer Media Group offers its readers the most cutting-edge information, available… — Jared Kushner Copy Share Image
Want is a bitter and a hateful good, Because its virtues are not understood; Yet many things, impossible to thought, Have been… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
When we are at our wits' end for an answer, then the Holy Spirit can give us an answer. But how can… — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
President Reagan achieved such successes because when you sat in a room with him, there could be over 1,000 people in the… — Elton Gallegly Copy Share Image
Better to operate with detachment, then; better to have a way but infuse it with a little humor; best, to have no… — Lewis Hyde Copy Share Image
Criticism is often not a science; it is a craft, requiring more good health than wit, more hard work than talent, more… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
With impeccable prose, dry wit, and uncommon wisdom, Ted Thompson brings to life one family's painful disappointments and powerful resilience. The Land… — Maggie Shipstead Copy Share Image
“Oh, well, that's not bad, I suppose. I mean, I'd prefer devastatingly sophisticated - but almost endearing is more than I could… — Jane Costello Copy Share Image
Three year sof unconditional MFN have not lead to any subtantial improvement in human rights, trade and nuclear proliferation practice of the… — Nancy Pelosi Copy Share Image
Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same. Gossip is the… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
“We sensible often resist intrusive love and its chaos practically, employing measures to prevent the former for fear of the latter. But… — Tiffany Madison Copy Share Image
Mab Jones' poetry is suffused with a cool wit and a wisdom beyond her years. She is a superb performance poet in… — Phill Jupitus Copy Share Image
And writers say, as the most forward bud Is eaten by the canker ere it blow, Even so by love the young… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
It seems probable that once the machine thinking method had started, it would not take long to outstrip our feeble powers… They… — Alan Turing Copy Share Image
