513 Quotes About Wit

He liked such sharpness, for there was nothing in him that had any blood you might spill.

Yes, yes. Aim for the sun. That way if you miss, at least your arrow will fall far away, and the person it kills will likely be someone you don't know.

I like to live every day like it's my last."Shallan nodded."And by that I mean lying in a puddle of my own urine, calling for the nurse to bring me more pudding.

A lot of Christians like to remind me that heaven is my true home, which makes me want to ask them if they would like to go home first.

Brevity is the sister of talent.

Miss Taverner took the whip and reins in her hands, and mounted into the driving-seat, scorning assistance."Take your orders from Miss Taverner, Henry," said the Earl, getting up beside his ward."Me Lord, you are never going to let a female drive us?" said Henry almost tearfully. "What about my pride?""Swallow it, Henry," replied the Earl amicably.

She contrived, without precisely making so vulgar a boast, to convey the impression that she was escaping from courtships so persistent as to amount to persecution; and Mr Beaumaris, listening with intense pleasure , said that London was the very place for anyone desirous of escaping attention.

If you knew the history of that flute, it would make your brain flip upside-down. And by that, I mean that I would shove you off the carriage for having spied on me.

The illusion of ‘I’ is that you think you are ‘I’ while you are only ‘am’; and that ‘am’ is the first person singular of the verb ‘to be’. Since, for ‘to be’ you don’t need to say ‘I’, but for to say ‘I’ you need ‘to be’, thus you are prior to ‘I’ as ‘am’, and that ‘am’ is ‘to be’; therefore, to that note, on the ocean of ‘am’ alone, ‘I’ is only a wave.