Appearing Quote by Luc de Clapiers Download Open image “The character of false wit is that of appearing to depend only upon reason.” — Luc de Clapiers ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Appearing Character Depends Reason Wit
Wit lies in the likeness of things that are different, and in the difference of things that are alike. — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
Wit is that which has been often thought, but never before was well expressed. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
True wit is everlasting, like the sun; describing all men, but described by none. — George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham Copy Share Image
When one wishes to play the wit, he sometimes wander a little from the truth. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
Wit, like poetry, is insusceptible of being constructed upon rules founded merely in reason. Like faith, it exists independent of reason, and sometimes in… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
There's a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast. Yet it must be confessed that wit given an edge to sense, and recommends it… — William Penn 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 things, do justice to all the facts of a complex situations. On such a theme one can be brief only by omission and simplification. Omission and simplification help us to understand - but help is, in many cases,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share
Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel 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 judgment and… — King James I Copy Share Image
Great men undertake great things because they are great; fools, because they think them easy. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
Excessive distrust is not less hurtfJul than its opposite. Most men become useless to him who is unwilling to risk being deceived. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
We are very wrong to think that some fault or other can exclude virtue, or to consider the alliance of good and evil as… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
Men are not to be judged by what they do not know, but by what they know, and by the manner in which they… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
Men dissimulate their dearest, most constant, and most virtuous inclination from weakness and a fear of being condemned. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
To withdraw ourselves from the law of the strong, we have found ourselves obliged to submit to justice. Justice or might, we must choose… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
None are more liable to mistakes than those who act only on second thoughts. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
The mind is the soul's eye, not its source of power. That lies in the heart, in other words, in the passions. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
I even see the cinema itself as a woman, with its alternation of light and darkness, of appearing and disappearing images — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
I find it profoundly symbolic that I am appearing before a committee of fifteen men who will report to a legislative body of one… — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
Acting is not a state of being ... but a state of appearing to be. You can't be eight times a week without going… — Noel Coward Copy Share Image
We owe America something because they turned us into a touring band. But at least we feel confident about appearing in Britain again now.… — Steve Marriott Copy Share Image
I stopped appearing as Dracula in 1972 because in my opinion the presentation of the character had deteriorated to such an extent, particularly bringing… — Christopher Lee Copy Share Image
It was 1988, I believe, that I met Grit. We were both appearing in a Canadian Folk Festival and as we sat backstage he… — Tom Chapin Copy Share Image
I am of course getting angry if biologists try to use the general concept 'chance' in order to explain phenomena which are so typical… — Wolfgang Paul Copy Share Image
Equity sends questions to Law. Law sends questions back to equity; Law finds it can't do this, equity finds it can't do that; neither… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Layering in different patterns will keep things from appearing too studied. — Nate Berkus Copy Share Image
Barbra Streisand developed overwhelming performance anxiety at the height of her career; for 27 years she refused to perform for the general public, appearing… — Scott Stossel Copy Share Image
I have often seen a cat without a grin - but a grin without a cat - remember the cat kept appearing and disappearing… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
