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Tag Name "Wit" (812)

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Wit and humor do not reside in slow minds.
Miguel de Cervantes
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Wit is the only wall between us and the dark.
Mark Van Doren
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Wit saves us from being swallowed whole by life.
Mason Cooley
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Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.
Madame de Stael
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With impeccable prose, dry wit, and uncommon wisdom, Ted Thompson brings to life one family's painful disappointments and powerful resilience. The Land of Steady Habits combines Austen's shrewd mastery of domestic economics with Updike's compassion for the melancholy commuter to make something elegant, fresh, and brilliant.
Maggie Shipstead
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Wit is the lightning of the mind, reason the sunshine, and reflection the moonlight.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
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Wit will never make a man rich, but there are places where riches will always make a wit.
Samuel Johnson
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Wit is its own remedy. Liberty and commerce bring it to its true standard. The only danger is the laying an embargo. The same thing happens here as in the case of trade: impositions and restrictions reduce it to a low ebb nothing is so advantageous to it as a free port.
Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury
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Wit is educated insolence.
Aristotle
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Wit is well-bred insolence.
Aristotle
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Wit doesn't make girls pretty.
Jeanne Calment
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Wit and wisdom are born with a man.
John Selden
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Wit, to be well defined, must be defined by wit itself then it will be worth listening to.
Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
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Wit will shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line.
John Dryden
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Wit in conversation is only a readiness of thought and a facility of expression, or a quick conception and an easy delivery.
Alexander Pope
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Wit and puns aren't just décor in the mind they're essential signs that the mind knows it's on, recognizes its own software, can spot the bugs in its own program.
Adam Gopnik
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Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.
Agnes Repplier
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Wit is a pleasure-giving thing, largely because it eludes reason but in the apprehension of an absurdity through the working of the comic spirit there is a foundation of reason, and an impetus to human companionship.
Agnes Repplier
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With the latitude of unbounded scurrility, it is easy enough to attain the character of a wit, especially when it is considered how wonderfully pleasant it is to the generality of the public to see the folly of their acquaintance exposed by a third person.
Henry Fielding
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Wit and judgment often are at strife.
Alexander Pope
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Wit is the lowest form of humor.
Alexander Pope
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Wit and humor seem to always factor into this - there's a tongue-in-cheek tone you get when you take on a formalist story - because there's an inherent voice you're trying to copy (and often to satirize).
Alexander Weinstein
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Wit is a form of force that leaves the limbs at rest.
George Eliot
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Wit, after all, is a mighty tart, pungent ingredient, and much too acid for some stomachs but honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting.
Washington Irving
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