Describing Quote by George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham

“Describing men, of course, I run into the same problems—aquiline nose, chiseled features, bullish neck, leonine hair, steely gaze, bronze tan—but somehow the arsenal…

— Josip Novakovich

The well of true wit is truth itself.

— George Meredith

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 we find,…

— Alexander Pope

True wit has a grave intention.

— Mason Cooley

Wit is something more than a gymnastic trick of the intellect; true wit implies a beam of thought into the essence of a question,…

— Arthur Lynch

True wit never made us laugh.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.

— Alexander Pope

True wit is nature to advantage dressed, what oft was thought, but never so well expressed.

— Alexander Pope

True wit, to every man, is that which falls on another.

— Walter Savage Landor

Writing is not describing, painting is not depicting. Verisimilitude is merely an illusion.

— Georges Braque

With Gnaw I was thinking about traditional sculpture, about carving. I was also interested in figurative sculpture. I put those two ideas together and…

— Janine Antoni

Describing comic sensibility is near impossible. It's sort of an abstract silliness, that sometimes the joke isn't the star.

— Dana Carvey

There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful…

— Pamela Stephenson

Without sounding overly sentimental about the process, I'd say trying to describe how you tend to conceive of a book is like describing how…

— Jess Walter

In a general way, the literature of the twentieth century is essentially psychological; and psychology consists of describing states of the soul by displaying…

— Simone Weil