Ideas Quote by Patrick O'Brian Download Open image “Wit is the unexpected copulation of ideas.” — Patrick O'Brian ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ideas Unexpected Wit
Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Wit is that which has been often thought, but never before was well expressed. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
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
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
“Christ's blood in heaven, you ignorant, incompetent whey-faced nestlecock, do you think I am a hired spy, an informer? That I have a master,… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
“To tell the truth, sir, I believe I had rather sit in the shelter for a while. The cabbage seems to have turned my… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
“Never mind the disappointment. Salt water will wash it away. You will be amazed how unimportant it will seem in a week’s time –… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
“The weather had freshened almost to coldness, for the wind was coming more easterly, from the chilly currents between Tristan and the Cape; the… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
“Of course I do know it is the French who are so wicked; but there are all these people who keep coming and going… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
My wife and I have spent most of our lives in France, and we are both pretty well bilingual, my wife more purely than… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
“This short watch that is about to come, or rather these two short watches--why are they called dog watches? Where, heu, heu, is the… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
The function of the novel is the exploration of the human condition. Really, that's what it's all about. — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
It is a great while since I felt the grind of bone under my saw,' he added, smiling with anticipation. — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
“But I will tell you another misery that is not to be denied. In the common, natural course of events physicians, surgeons and apothecaries… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
“Yet,'said Maturin, pursuing his own thought, 'there is a quality in dogs, I must confess, rarely to be seen elsewhere and that is affection:… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Companies with cultures that celebrate diverse opinions and encourage the exchange of ideas have an advantage when solving difficult problems. A company that doesn't… — Doug McMillon Copy Share Image
You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
I know for my wife and I, we always loved the idea of being young parents. It is an incredibly inspiring and challenging job… — Taylor Hanson Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I've always been fascinated by the idea that there's no such thing as evil; it's all in your point of view. To one group… — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
It revealed a cruelty that really made one wonder if the universe was such a good idea after all. — Jeff Lindsay Copy Share Image
Sometimes it's just enough for me to have the idea. I don't need to see it through to the end. When it actually happens,… — Amy Sedaris Copy Share Image
Love is like that, fragile and light. No wonder it rests upon our hearts in intangible moments, bids us follow fleeting thoughts and ideas… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But I already saw no great difference between the psyche and spirituality. To amass knowledge without becoming wise is not my idea of progress… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
