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Letter "W" » wittiest
«A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power»
Author: George Meredith
(Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Men and Women
| Keywords:
treasure, wittiest, witty
«Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind; Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave. I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned.»
«Conquered people tend to be witty.»
«Melancholy men are of all others the most witty.»
«Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.»
«One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.»
Author: Jane Austen
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
laughing, now and then, stumbling, wittiest, witty
«Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library: a company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries in a thousand years.... The thought which they did not uncover to their bosom friend is here written out in transparent words to us, the strangers of another age.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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bosom, chosen, civil, company, Company of, countries, library, out in, picked, smallest, Strangers, the smallest, The Strangers, transparent, uncover, uncovering, uncovers, wisest, wittiest
«A witty saying proves nothing.»
«Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Spirit
| Keywords:
wittiest, witty
«Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Conversation
| Keywords:
affectation, affectations, indecencies, indecency, novel, scurrility, wittiest, witty
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