513 Quotes About Wit
- Author Neel Burton
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If you want to be heard, become a dentist.
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- Author David Foster Wallace
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You are the sort of auditor for whom the rhetoricians designed the exordium.
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- Author Marty Rubin
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There is more to life than playing with words.
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- Author Erasmus
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Priests are said in Scripture to devour the sins of the people; and they find sins so hard to digest that they must have the best wine to wash them down.
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- Author Brandon Sanderson
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The only 'unseemly' thing is to not channel your intelligence usefully.
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- Author Catherynne M. Valente
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The Sibyl Slant stared out of her slit eyes, the disc of her face showing no feeling at all. “Do you suppose you will look the same when you are an old woman as you do now? Most folk have three faces—the face they get when they’re children, the face they own when they’re grown, and the face they’ve earned when they’re old.
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- Author Catherynne M. Valente
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First Law of Heroics.” The Monaciello grinned up at a confused September. “Someone has to tell you it’s impossible, or the Quest can’t go on.
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- Author Brandon Sanderson
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It's interesting that the woman who wrote that treatise – the one you all practically worship in Alethkar –decided that all of the feminine tasks involve sitting around having fun while all the masculine ones involve finding someone to stick a spear in you. Telling, eh?
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- Author Marty Rubin
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One word spoken from the heart is worth a thousand clever remarks.
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