Witted Quotes
53 quotes by 49 authors
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Here in Barcelona, it's the architects who built the buildings that made the city iconic who are the objects of admiration - not a bunch…
— Julie Burchill
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My dad is a very quick-witted, sarcastic, dry, humorous guy, whereas my mom's very silly, and that side of the family is very musical.
— Tim Heidecker
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Natural death is independent of all reason and is really an irrational death, in which the pitiable substance of the shell determines how long the…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Thou sodden-witted lord! thou hast no more brain than I have in mine elbows.
— William Shakespeare
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These stupid peasants, who, throughout the world, hold potentates on their thrones, make statesmen illustrious, provide generals with lasting victories, all with ignorance, indifference, or…
— Stephen Crane
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When you're photographing anything to do with war and conflict you're photographing something impossible. Everything you do is just clumsy and stupid and half witted.…
— Simon Norfolk
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America -- rather, the United States -- seems to me to be the Jew among the nations. It is resourceful, adaptable, maligned, envied, feared, imposed…
— Edna Ferber
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In general, the men of lower intelligence won out. Afraid of their own shortcomings and of the intelligence of their opponents, so that they would…
— Thucydides
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Those who have a natural talent for calculation are generally quick-witted at every other kind of knowledge; and even the dull, if they have had…
— Plato
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Comedy mocks the vanity of visions of rational control. The person who can joke amidst a confrontation with evil, like the quick-witted Spider-Man, must be…
— Peter Leithart
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Why are CEO's who slash jobs so proud of themselves? Instead of bragging about 'cutting fat,' they ought to be getting up before their employees…
— Dale Dauten
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Dull witted brooding people love to stuff themselves with quantities of heavy food, just like animals for fattening. Bubbly intellectual people love foods which stimulate…
— Carl Friedrich von Rumohr
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The only black people you found were occasional characters or characters who were so feeble-witted that they couldn't manage anything, anyway. I wrote myself in,…
— Octavia Butler
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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 their wit.
— Henry David Thoreau
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... as a slow-witted human being I have a very small head and I had better learn to live with it and to respect my…
— Edsger Dijkstra
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The fellow who laughs last may laugh best, but he gets the reputation of being very slow-witted.
— Leo Rosten
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In Madame Bovary Flaubert never allows anything to go on too long; he can suggest years of boredom in a paragraph, capture the essence of…
— Michael Dirda
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They look for a victim to chivy, and howl him down, and finally lynch him in a sheer storm of sexual frenzy which they honestly…
— Aleister Crowley
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I saw that the State was half-witted, that it was timid as a lone woman with her silver spoons, and that it did not know…
— Henry David Thoreau
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No grand inquisitor has in readiness such terrible tortures as has anxiety and no spy knows how to attack more artfully the man he suspects,…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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