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Tag Name "Wit" (871)

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The music of Gavin Bryars falls under no category. It is mongrel, full of sensuality and wit and is deeply moving. He is one of the few composers who can put slapstick and primal emotion alongside each other. He allows you to witness new wonders in the sounds around you by approaching them from a completely new angle. With a third ear maybe.
Michael Ondaatje
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Sense is our helmet, wit is but the plume The plume exposes, 'tis our helmet saves. Sense is the diamond, weighty, solid, sound When cut by wit, it casts a brighter beam Yet, wit apart, it is a diamond still.
Edward Young
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Genuine and innocent wit is surely the very flavor of the mind.
Moses Harvey
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Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.
Victor Hugo
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I'll be there for you, I will care for you, I keep thinking you just don't know. Tryna run from that, say you're done wit that, on your face girl it just don't show.
Drake
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Freud was the son of a Jewish merchant who had to move his whole family to Vienna because he couldn't get work. He, as a boy, had to watch his father be mocked and abused on the street for being Jewish... You develop a thick skin and you develop a certain kind of wit to defend yourself.
Viggo Mortensen
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I assure you, you will never survive on your wits alone.
LeBron James
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In Paris, you learn wit, in London you learn to crush your social rivals, and in Florence you learn poise.
Virgil Thomson
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With twice his wits, she had to see things through his eyes -- one of the tragedies of married life.
Virginia Woolf
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In an address before the Academia, which had been organized to combat science falsely so called, Cardinal Manning declared his abhorrence of the new view of Nature, and described it as a brutal philosophy to wit, there is no God, and the ape is our Adam. ...These attacks from such eminent sources set the clerical fashion for several ye
Andrew Dickson White
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I don't read reviews about myself with any special eagerness or attention unless they are masterpieces of wit and acumen, and I never reread them.
Vladimir Nabokov
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Chess is a game which reflects most honor on human wit.
Voltaire
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To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.
Andre Maurois
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Shoulda sent a thank you note, you little hoe Now Imma wrap your coffin wit a bow
Nicki Minaj
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No. The moral of the story in so far as it has one is that cannibals can study logic, and that if you are going to leave the path, you better have your wits about you and know better than to trust the first scary old lady who talks to you in public.
Nick Harkaway
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Silence is the wit of fools.
Anatole France
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I wonder how anyone can have the face to condemn others when he reflects upon his own thoughts.
W. Somerset Maugham
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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
W. Somerset Maugham
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Impropriety is the soul of wit.
W. Somerset Maugham
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Calculus is the most powerful weapon of thought yet devised by the wit of man.
Wallace B. Smith
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He who cannot shine by thought, seeks to bring himself into notice by a witticism.
Voltaire
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Reason leavened with a little wit (if possible) is the real alternative to hate speech, meaning that there's no better time for it.
Walter Kirn
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Pun: A form of wit, to which wise men stoop and fools aspire
Ambrose Bierce
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Every witticism is an inexact thought that which is perfectly true is imperfectly witty.
Walter Savage Landor
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