I'm not a quick wit. I'm only funny on paper. I mean, I'm not totally humorless! It's just that in person, I'm not quite the way I am on paper.
Mary Roach
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Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.
Jean de la Bruyere
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Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.
Christian Nestell Bovee
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Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
William Shakespeare
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Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt
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Wit thou well that I will not live long after thy days.
Thomas Malory
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Tennis: the most perfect combination of athleticism, artistry, power, style, and wit. A beautiful game, but one so remorselessly travestied by the passage of time.
Martin Amis
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A cabaret song has got to be written - for the middle voice, ideally - because you've got to hear the wit of the words. And a cabaret song gives the singer room to act, more even than an opera singer.
James Fenton
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The Sarajevans have a very particular world view - a mordant wit coupled with this unbearable sadness and... truckloads of guts, you know.
Geraldine Brooks
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Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government.
Elizabeth I
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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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Idleness of the mind is much worse than that of the body: wit, without employment, is a disease - the rust of the soul, a plague, a hell itself.
Samuel Smiles
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Indeed I had not much wit, yet I was not an idiot - my wit was according to my years.
Margaret Cavendish
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The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.
Francis Bacon
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Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.
Benjamin Franklin
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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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In the old days of literature, only the very thick-skinned - or the very brilliant - dared enter the arena of literary criticism. To criticise a person's work required equal measures of erudition and wit, and inferior critics were often the butt of satire and ridicule.
Joanne Harris
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It is always the same: women bedeck themselves with jewels and furs, and men with wit and quotations.
Maurice Chevalier
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For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things.
Sophocles
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Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good; and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom.
Mary Astell
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It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues.
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I get the impression the English kings were witty, for some reason. I feel like all you had was your wit.
Colin Quinn
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Brevity is the soul of wit.
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Poesy must not be drawn by the ears: it must be gently led, or rather, it must lead, which was partly the cause that made the ancient learned affirm it was a divine, and no human skill, since all other knowledges lie ready for any that have strength of wit; a poet no industry can make, if his own genius be not carried into it.
Philip Sidney
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