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Tag Name "Wit" (874)

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He seemeth to be most ignorant that trusteth most to his wit.
Plato
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One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.
Jane Austen
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Writings may be compared to wine. Sense is the strength, but wit the flavor.
Laurence Sterne
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If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if you behave properly wit those holding divergent views from you or who criticize you, then you deserve to be credited with having an excellent character. (p. 99)
Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
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Farewell, woman! I intend Henceforth every night to sit With my lewd, well-natured friend, Drinking to engender wit.
John Wilmot
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An epigram is the marriage of wit and wisdom a wisecrack, their divorce.
Evan Esar
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Imagine sitting down to an eight ounce steak, and then, imagine the room filled wit 45 to 50 people with empty bowls...For the feed cost of your steak, each of their bowls could be filled with a cup pf cooked cereal grains.
Frances Moore Lappé
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Brevity may be the soul of wit, but not when someone's saying I love you.
Judith Viorst
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wit, wit! - I look upon it always as a draught of air it cools indeed, but one gets a stiff neck from it.
Katharina Elisabeth Goethe
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Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favour.
Henry Fielding
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O, once in each man's life, at least, Good luck knocks at his door And wit to seize the flitting guest Need never hunger more. But while the loitering idler waits. Good luck beside his fire, The bold heart storms at fortune's gates, And conquers its desire.
John L. Bates
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It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language
Jane Austen
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The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.
James Thurber
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Humour is the making others act or talk absurdly and unconsciously wit is the pointing out and ridiculing that absurdity consciously, and with more or less ill-nature.
William Hazlitt
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I always put these pert jackanapeses out of countenance by looking extremely grave when they expect that I should laugh at their pleasantries and by saying Well, and so?--as if they had not done, and that the sting were still to come. This disconcerts them, as they have no resources in themselves, and have but one set of jokes to live upon.
Lord Chesterfield
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True Wit is Nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd Something whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. As shades more sweetly recommend the light, So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit.
Alexander Pope
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I grow in worth, and wit, and sense, Unboding critic-pen, Or that eternal want of pence, Which vexes public men.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Wit is absolutely sociable spirit or aphoristic genius.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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They say sarcasm is the lowest form of wit, Valkyrie said. China glanced at her. They've obviously never met me.
Derek Landy
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Ignorance is a poor tool in a battle of wits.
Thomas Jefferson
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Your highest female grace is silence.
Ben Jonson
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I have dashed across continents and oceans as a fugitive and have matched my wits with the police and secret agents seeking to deprive me of one of the greatest blessings man can have-liberty.
Jack Johnson
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Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
William Shakespeare
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