Witted Quotes

53 quotes by 49 authors

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
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
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
Thou sodden-witted lord! thou hast no more brain than I have in mine elbows. — William Shakespeare
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
... 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
The fellow who laughs last may laugh best, but he gets the reputation of being very slow-witted. — Leo Rosten
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
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
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
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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