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Tag Name "Wit" (874)

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What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
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Soul of the age! The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare , rise I will not lodge thee by Chaucer or Spenser , or bid Beaumont lie A little further, to make thee a room Thou art a monument, without a tomb, And art alive still, while thy book doth live, And we have wits to read , and praise to give .
Ben Jonson
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Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run amuck, and tilt at all I meet.
Alexander Pope
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I do not like to employ secretaries that have more wit than myself. I am afraid to make them write all my nonsense.
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
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Upon meeting, you're judged by your clothes, upon parting you're judged by your wits.
Leo Tolstoy
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Here lies a Proof that Wit can never be Defence enough against Mortality
Aphra Behn
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Happy the country that lives on nothing but its wits cursed be the one that thinks it can get rich by planting or digging or drilling for wealth.
Bono
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Every thing in this world, said my father, is big with jest,--and has wit in it, and instruction too,--if we can but find it out.
Laurence Sterne
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Many species of wit are quite mechanical these are the favorites of witlings, whose fame in words scarce outlives the remembrance of their funeral ceremonies.
Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
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Men whose wit has been mother of villainy once have learned from it to be evil in all things.
Sophocles
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When thou dost tell another's jest, therein Omit the oaths, which true wit cannot need Pick out of tales the mirth, but not the sin.
George Herbert
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Ev'n wit's a burthen, when it talks too long.
John Dryden
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Wit and wisdom are born with a man.
John Selden
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It would never do for me to lose my wits in the presence of a man who had none too many of his own.
Anna Katharine Green
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Not a time with him passed that I didn't say, You should've been a comedian. [Vincent Price] was hilarious. He was just such a quick, funny wit. I don't think most people would think that about him, and it was really surprising to me. But man, the guy had a brilliant wit.
Cassandra Peterson
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In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.
George Herbert
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Wounds and hardships provoke our courage, and when our fortunes are at the lowest, our wits and minds are commonly at the best.
Pierre Charron
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The Great slight the men of wit, who have nothing but wit the men of wit despise the Great, who have nothing but greatness the good man pities them both, if with greatness or wit they have not virtue.
Jean de la Bruyere
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Writing well is at one and the same time good thinking, good feeling, and good expression it is having wit, soul, and taste, all together.
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
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A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income.
Lord Chesterfield
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Benjamin Franklin went through life an altered man because he once paid too dearly for a penny whistle. My concern springs usually from a deeper source, to wit, from having bought a whistle when I did not want one.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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A man does not please long when he has only species of wit.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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For as the body grows old, so the wits grow old and become blind towards all things alike.
Herodotus
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Attacking bad books is not only a waste of time but also bad for the character. If I find a book really bad, the only interest I can derive from writing about it has to come from myself, from such display of intelligence, wit and malice as I can contrive. One cannot review a bad book without showing off.
W. H. Auden
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