“Did you just say you Think Mansfield Park is boring? Get out of my house.” — Joel Derfner Copy Share Image
Not many girls would have used their wits the way you did," the officer observed. — Carolyn Keene Copy Share Image
Because if you've got the wit, you can make anything into a melody, ultimately. — Gerry Mulligan Copy Share Image
A poem's life and death dependeth still Not on the poet's wits, but reader's will. — Alexander Brome Copy Share Image
There is a significant Latin proverb; to wit: Who will guard the guards? — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
If she be fair and wise, fairness and wit, The one's for use, the other useth it. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Reading is the noblest of all the hobbies, that is why people mention it so frequently in their resume even if they… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
It is a great misfortune neither to have enough wit to talk well nor enough judgment to be silent. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Writing, madam, is a mechanic part of wit. A gentleman should never go beyond a song or a billet. — George Etherege Copy Share Image
It is many times with a fraudulent Design that men stick their corrupt Doctrine with the Cloves of other mens Wit. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
“Well, the truth is that his mother had six miscarriages, and three of them survived.” — Oscar O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Alan Ginsberg was fabulous. The man is so filled with energy. He's 65 years old and he's just loaded with energy and… — Ray Manzarek Copy Share Image
Wit is like caviar - it should be served in small portions and not spread about like marmalade. — Noel Coward Copy Share Image
Mr. Jones's book is a cleareyed examination of the British class system, and it poses this brutal question: 'How has hatred of… — Dwight Garner Copy Share Image
In the old days of literature, only the very thick-skinned - or the very brilliant - dared enter the arena of literary… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
Women of no beauty may yet be flattered to believe they possess some; others of a moderate share that they have a… — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
Not a time with him passed that I didn't say, "You should've been a comedian." [Vincent Price] was hilarious. He was just… — Cassandra Peterson Copy Share Image
“ONLY' having the Gift, people appreciate this madness as Art. Everybody wants to have Art in their lives, but no body wants… — Hiroko Sakai Copy Share Image
Il ne faut point donner d'esprit a' ses personnages; mais savoir les placer dans des circonstances qui leur en donnent. You should… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
The novel...creates a bemusing effect. The short story, on the other hand wakes the reader up. Not only that, it answers the… — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
True Wit is Nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd; Something whose truth convinced at sight… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
From authors whom I read more than once I learn to value the weight of words and to delight in their meter… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
... the general consent of all that sect is that God (by his foreknowledge, counsel, and wisdom) has no assured election, neither… — John Knox Copy Share Image
I'm always very grateful for stories about the great coffeehouse wits in Vienna at the turn of the last century. People would… — David Salle Copy Share Image
When you set about your composing, it may be necessary for your ease, and better distillation of wit, to put on your… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“I’ll admit, Jasnah, that I empathize with your skepticism, but I don’t agree with it. I just think you've been looking for… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
For such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
The soul of wit may become the very body of untruth. However elegant and memorable, brevity can never, in the nature of… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
There is no quality of the mind, or of the body, that so instantaneously and irresistibly captivates, as wit. An elegant writer… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
![“Not a time with him passed that I didn't say, "You should've been a comedian." [Vincent Price] was hilarious. He was just such a quick, funny wit. I don't think most people would think that about him, and it was really surprising to me. But man, the guy had a brilliant wit.” quote by Cassandra Peterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/392/cassandra-peterson-8193_brilliant_not-a-time-with-him-passed-that-i-didn-t_382874.jpg)
