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witty people world
Generally speaking, there is more wit than talent in the world. Society swarms with witty people who lack talent. Antoine Rivarol
witty disappointment party
I often feel I'm a disappointment to people because they expect me to be the guy in the books. When I sit next to someone at a dinner party I can see they expect me to be quick and witty, and I'm not at all. Bill Bryson
witty lying trying
Trying to be witty leads to lying, more or less. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
witty self rose
He grinned. “Busted. I’m a monster. Jev is my deceptively harmless — and shockingly handsome — alter ego.” “And I’m on top of it,” she announced with witty triumph. “Is that a Freudian slip?” His bluntness caught her off guard. A self-conscious blush rose in her face. Becca Fitzpatrick
witty fun lying
Go, write it in a martial hand; be curst and brief; it is no matter how witty, so it be eloquent and fun of invention: taunt him with the licence of ink: if thou thou'st him some thrice, it shall not be amiss; and as many lies as will lie in thy shee. William Shakespeare
witty learning dinner
I praise God for you, sir: your reasons at dinner have been sharp and sententious; pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, audacious without impudency, learned without opinion, and strange with-out heresy.
witty memorable should
Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.
witty memories kids
A long memory is the most subversive idea in America. A tautology is a thing which is tautological. A witty saying proves nothing, but saying something pointless gets people's attention. If your kids look like you, it's hereditory. If they look like the neighbor, it's the environment. Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing. Dave Barry
witty stupid party
What I think is that the F-word is basically just a convenient nasty-sounding word that we tend to use when we would really like to come up with a terrific-ally witty insult, the kind Winston Churchill always came up with when enormous women asked him stupid questions at parties.
memorable details analysis
Salinger is a master of the memorable detail, the seemingly random gesture, the debris of mundane daily operations, the stuff that is left out of any analysis. Bill Vaughan
memorable play justice
When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentler gamester is the soonest winner
memorable men looks
He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again.
memorable ears stomach
You cram these words into mine ears against The stomach of my sense.
memorable grace speak
Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter.
memorable power devil
The Devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape.
memorable sin mercy
Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy.
memorable watches tempest
He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.
memorable has-beens
Be great in act, as you have been in thought.
should-have perfect firsts
When humans should have become as perfect in voluntary obedience as the inanimate creation is in its lifeless obedience, then they will put on its glory, or rather that greater glory of which Nature is only the first sketch. C. S. Lewis
should-have names space
All families have their secrets, most people would never know them, but they know there are spaces, gaps where the answers should be, where someone should have sat, where someone used to be. A name that is never uttered, or uttered just once and never again. We all have our secrets. Cecelia Ahern
should bad-things
You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good . . . Joan Crawford is dead. Good. Bette Davis
should-have racism prejudice
It did not seem to me that prejudice, poverty, discrimination, repression and racism were confined to the North of Ireland. I could see them everywhere I spoke and still cannot comprehend the mentality that argues that I should have pretended not to see them, because it wasn't my business. Bernadette Devlin
should-have ideas leisure
The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the rich. Bertrand Russell
should-have cracks citizens
The breaking of so great a thing should make A greater crack: the round world Should have shook lions into civil streets, And citizens to their dens.
should should-i
I waited a second. Should I? No... but I will. Jay Asher
shoulder wheel wish work
If you have ambitions, dream of what you wish to accomplish, and then put your shoulder to the wheel and work. Heber J. Grant
should-have years able
I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron.... I should have been able to do better. Ezra Pound