Quotes of: Wits Keyword

Lovers often invest their first meetings with retrospective significance, as if to try to conjure the elements of the numinous out of the stubborn witness of the everyday.

Christopher Hitchens

A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.

Charles Lamb

What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification.

Helen Rowland

All day we've witnessed each other's crimes. You killed no one today? But how many did you leave to die?

Ian Mcewan

Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.

Jean de la Bruyere

Here in Barcelona, it's the architects who built the buildings that made the city iconic who are the objects of admiration - not a bunch of half-witted monarchs.

Julie Burchill

In the whole history of the world there is but one thing that money cannot buy...to wit--the wag of a dog's tail.

Josh Billings

To be knowledgeable, learn new things every day; to be wise, unlearn things that you learn with wit and love.

Debasish Mridha

The Roswell incident, for instance, had over three hundred witnesses - some describing the bodies, some the craft, some the military procedures. Were they all perpetuating their own lives in a myth?

Dwight Schultz

Happy the country that lives on nothing but its wits; cursed be the one that thinks it can get rich by planting or digging or drilling for wealth.

Bono

I have made my living bearing witness to some of the most horrific events of the end of our century, at the end of the 20th century.

Christiane Amanpour

Never struggle against any obstacle; Observe, concentrate and witness; Accept, indulge to transform and overcome, For or against, but with equal respect and in totality.

Gian Kumar

That dusty hill we can scarcely look upon and then only with pain, The Adversary, also with pain, does and must ever witness The Crucifixion.

Geoffrey Wood

Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor.

Henry Fielding

The older you get, the better you get, because you've seen more. You don't necessarily have to go through a lot, but you have to witness it in order to recreate it.

Janet McTeer

I'm not a reality TV star. I pride myself on witnessing, watching people, studying people, and being able to recreate that and create a human being.

Janet Montgomery

The New Testament witnesses were fully aware of the background against which the resurrection took place.

Josh McDowell

I think puns are not just the lowest form of wit, but the lowest form of human behavior.

John Oliver

Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. (quoting the Bhagavad-Gita after witnessing the first Nuclear explosion.)

J. Robert Oppenheimer

People who have witnessed all the years of me playing, they bring their kids and say, 'I used to see this guy when I was fourteen!'

Dick Dale