Quotes of: Witnesses Keyword

You may ask why I write. And yet my reasons are quite many. For it is not unusual in human beings who have witnessed the sack of a city or the falling to pieces of a people to desire to set down what they have witnesses for the benefit of unknown hei...

Ford Madox Ford

Who would not give up wit for power and beauty?

Mason Cooley

The more wit the less courage.

Thomas Fuller

Impropriety is the soul of wit.

W. Somerset Maugham

A writer's work is to witness things.

Edward Hoagland

Initially, the purveyors of racism need no more than the silent acquiescence of the public ... [I]t is never too soon to confront bigotry and racism whenever, wherever, and in whatever form it raises its ugly head. It is incumbent upon all people to ...

Destined to Witness: Growing Up Black in Nazi Germany

I want to make a splash in the world, and I want to make one with my dry wit. My dry wit is wetter than you’d imagine.

At even one penny, this book would be overpriced. In fact, free is too expensive, because you'd still waste time by reading it.

And it was not merely tens of thousands, or hundreds of thousands, but hundreds of millions of people who were the obedient witnesses of this slaughter of the innocent. Nor were they merely obedient witnesses: when ordered to, they gave their support...

Life and Fate

The fatigue I've gathered year after year and stored inside now heaves a muted cry of helplessness. Nothing but fatigue, rounding my shoulders, heavier than ever on this late autumn day with a useless sun, a world of unforgiving disasters. So many st...

Quality of Witness: A Romanian Diary, 1937-1944

Compare with me, ye women, if you can

The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America, Or, Severall Poems Compiled with Great Variety of Wit and Learning, Full of Delight: Wherein Especially Is Contained a Compleat Discourse and Description of the Four Elements, Constitutions, Ages of Man, ...

My love is such that rivers cannot quench

The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America, Or, Severall Poems Compiled with Great Variety of Wit and Learning, Full of Delight: Wherein Especially Is Contained a Compleat Discourse and Description of the Four Elements, Constitutions, Ages of Man, ...

A hypocritical businessman, whose fortune had been the misfortune of many others, told Mark Twain piously, “Before I die I intend to make a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. I want to climb to the top of Mount Sinai and read the Ten Commandments aloud.�...

The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain

We did not speak of what we had seen. At the time, to speak of it seemed worse than sacrilege: We had witnessed a thing so terrible that it acquired a dreadful holiness. It was a miracle of evil. It was not possible to say with words what we had witn...

Irene Gut Opdyke

Sir Wilfrid: My Lord, may I also remind my learned friend that his witness, by her own admission, has already violated so many oaths that I am surprised the Testament did not LEAP FROM HER HAND when she was sworn here today! I doubt if anything is to...

Witness for the Prosecution

When you are dealing with a child, keep all your wits about you, and sit on the floor.

Austin O'Malley

Juror #8: Look, there was one alleged eye witness to this killing. Someone else claims he heard the killing, saw the boy run out afterwards and there was a lot of circumstantial evidence. But, actually, those two witnesses were the entire case for th...

12 Angry Men

The banalities of a great man pass for wit.

Alexander Chase

A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.

Lord John Russell

Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Don't set your wit against a child.

Jonathan Swift