William Shakespeare Quotes
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I definitely did look up to John. We all looked up to John. He was older and he was very much the leader; he was the quickest wit and the smartest.
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I bob and weave em, hit em wit that Mayweather JAB.
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Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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The mere wit is only a human bauble. He is to life what bells are to horses-not expected to draw the load, but only to jingle while the horses draw.
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Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
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Old Madame du Deffand and her friends talked for fifty years without stopping. And of it all, what remains? Perhaps three witty sayings. So that we are at liberty to suppose either that nothing was said, or that nothing witty was said, or that the fraction of three witty sayings lasted eighteen thousand two hundred and fifty nights, which does not leave a liberal allowance of wit for any one of them.
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Men whose wit has been mother of villainy once have learned from it to be evil in all things.
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I don't read reviews about myself with any special eagerness or attention unless they are masterpieces of wit and acumen, and I never reread them.
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Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
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We prefer a person with vivacity and high spirits, though bordering upon insolence, to the timid and pusillanimous; we are fonder of wit joined to malice than of dullness without it.
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Nobody thanks a witty man for politeness when he puts himself on a par with a society in which it would not be polite to show one's wit.
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Politics make me sick
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Roscoe was spiritually illegal, a bootlegger of the soul, a mythic creature made of words and wit and wild deeds and boundless memory.
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I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed!
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The dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits.
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Some grief shows much of love, But much of grief shows still some want of wit.
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To be in love- where scorn is bought with groans, Coy looks with heart-sore sighs, one fading moment's mirth With twenty watchful, weary, tedious nights; If haply won, perhaps a hapless gain; If lost, why then a grievous labour won; However, but a folly bought with wit, Or else a wit by folly vanquished.
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The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.
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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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And who is so barbarous as not to understand that the foot of a man is nobler than his shoe, and his skin nobler than that of the sheep with which he is clothed.
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The tool the Buddha holds out to free the mind from desire is understanding. Real renunciation is not a matter of compelling ourselves to give up things still inwardly cherished, but of changing our perspective on them so that they no longer bind us. When we understand the nature of desire, when we investigate it closely with keen attention, desire falls away by itself, without need for struggle.
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When two friends part they should lock up each other's secrets and exchange keys. The truly noble mind has no resentments.
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If you spend word for word with me, I shall make your wit bankrupt.
