513 Quotes About Wit
- Author Georgette Heyer
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M'sieur, I am as a slave to my wife." He kissed the tips of his fingers. "I am as the dirt beneath her feet." He clasped his hands. "I must bestow on her all that she desires, or die!""Pray make use of my sword, " invited his Grace. "It is in the corner behind you.
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- Author Voltaire
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All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.
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- Author Marcel Proust
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One says the things which one feels the need to say, and which the other will not understand: one speaks for oneself alone.
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- Author Henry David Thoreau
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I did not know that mankind were suffering for want of gold. I have seen a little of it. I know that it is very malleable, but not so malleable as wit. A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom.
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- Author Edgar Rice Burroughs
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Captain Billings," he drawled finally, "if you will pardon my candor, I might remark that you are something of an ass, don't you know.
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- Author Richard Mitchell
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Words never fail. We hear them, we read them; they enter into the mind and become part of us for as long as we shall live. Who speaks reason to his fellowmen bestows it upon them. Who mouths inanity disorders thought for all who listen. There must be some minimum allowable dose of inanity beyond which the mind cannot remain reasonable. Irrationality, like buried chemical waste, sooner or later must seep into all the tissues of thought.
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- Author Dorothy L. Sayers
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He remembered having said to his uncle (with a solemn dogmatism better befitting a much younger man): "Surely it is possible to love with the head as well as the heart." Mr. Delagardie had replied, somewhat drily: "No doubt; so long as you do not end by thinking with your entrails instead of your brain.
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- Author Lisa Lewis Tyre
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For somebody who's not afraid, you sure run fast.
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- Author Isabel Allende
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I've been so thoroughly incorporated into the California culture that I practice meditation and go to a therapist, even though I always set a trap: during my meditation I invent stories to keep from being bored, and in therapy I invent stories to keep from boring the psychologist.
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