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Tag Name "Wit" (871)

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Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.
Ambrose Bierce
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What an ornament and safeguard is humor! Far better than wit for a poet and writer. It is a genius itself, and so defends from the insanities.
Walter Scott
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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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This is the first generation in all of recorded history that can do something about the scourge of poverty. We have the means to do it. We can banish hunger from the face of the earth.
Hubert H. Humphrey
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Rob Chilson's mordant wit will keep you turning the pages until the wee hours!
Algis Budrys
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True wit has a grave intention.
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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It is one of the triumphs of human wit ... to conquer by humility and submissiveness ... to make oneself small in order to appear great ... such ... are often the expedients of the neurotic.
Alfred Adler
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Without the assistance of eating and drinking, the most sparkling wit would be as heavy as a bad soufflé, and the brightest talent as dull as a looking-glass on a foggy day.
Alexis Soyer
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It doesn't phaze, I amaze wit my phrases Play this in your Jeep, so your neighbors lose some sleep (I wanna thank you)
Del tha Funkee Homosapien
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Fool, 'tis in vain from wit to wit to roam: Know, sense, like charity, begins at home.
Alexander Pope
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What so pure, which envious tongues will spare? Some wicked wits have libell'd all the fair, With matchless impudence they style a wife, The dear-bought curse, and lawful plague of life A bosom serpent, a domestic evil, A night invasion, and a mid-day devil Let not the wise these sland'rous words regard, But curse the bones of ev'ry living bard.
Alexander Pope
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But honest instinct comes a volunteer Sure never to o'er-shoot, but just to hit, While still too wide or short in human wit.
Alexander Pope
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There still remains to mortify a wit The many-headed monster of the pit.
Alexander Pope
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A perfect Judge will read each work of Wit With the same spirit that its author writ: Survey the Whole, nor seek slight faults to find Where nature moves, and rapture warms the mind.
Alexander Pope
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The novel...creates a bemusing effect. The short story, on the other hand wakes the reader up. Not only that, it answers the primitive craving for art, the wit, paradox and beauty of shape, the longing to see a dramatic pattern and significance in our experience.
V. S. Pritchett
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You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home.
Alexander Pope
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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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Authors are partial to their wit, 'tis true, But are not critics to their judgment, too?
Alexander Pope
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Poets like painters, thus unskilled to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And hide with ornaments their want of art. True wit is Nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.
Alexander Pope
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One science only will one genius fit so vast is art, so narrow human wit.
Alexander Pope
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There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.
Alexander Pope
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Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild In Wit a man Simplicity, a child.
Alexander Pope
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Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.
Alexander Pope
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