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.
Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings -
I bob and weave em, hit em wit that Mayweather JAB.
Nicki Minaj -
Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
Oscar Wilde -
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.
Henry Ward Beecher -
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.
Aristotle -
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.
Virginia Woolf
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Men whose wit has been mother of villainy once have learned from it to be evil in all things.
Sophocles -
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.
Vladimir Nabokov -
Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt -
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.
William Hazlitt -
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.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Politics make me sick
William Howard Taft
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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.
William Kennedy -
I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed!
William Shakespeare -
The dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits.
William Shakespeare -
Some grief shows much of love, But much of grief shows still some want of wit.
William Shakespeare -
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.
William Shakespeare -
The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.
Avicenna
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Few have greater riches than the joy That comes to us in visions, In dreams which nobody can take away.
Euripides -
The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.
Dalai Lama -
In the long run my observations have convinced me that some men, reasoning preposterously, first establish some conclusion in their minds which, either because of its being their own or because of their having received it from some person who has their entire confidence, impresses them so deeply that one finds it impossible ever to get it out of their heads.
Galileo Galilei -
Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.
Thomas A. Edison -
She had rooms in her mind that she would not look into.
Wallace Stegner -
If you spend word for word with me, I shall make your wit bankrupt.
William Shakespeare