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Letter "W" » witty
«There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature; the malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick»
Author: Richard Brinsley Sheridan
(Orator, Playwright, Politician)
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Possibility
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barb, barbed, ill nature, malice, witty
«Sir, money, money, the most charming of all things; money, which will say more in one moment than the most elegant lover can in years. Perhaps you will say a man is not young; I answer he is rich. He is not genteel, handsome, witty, brave, good-humored, but he is rich, rich, rich, rich, rich /that one word contradicts everything you can say against him.»
Author: Henry Fielding
(Novelist, Playwright)
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charming, elegant, genteel, good-humored, handsome, humored, witty
«Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.»
«Silence in love betrays more woe - Than words though ne'er so witty; A beggar that is dumb, you know, may challenge double pity»
«The next best thing to being witty is to quote another's wit»
«People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.»
«The humorous story is American, the comic story is English, the witty story is French. The humorous story depends for its effect upon the manner of the telling; the comic story and the witty story upon the matter.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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comic, humorous, The Comic, The Telling, witty
«The present generation, wearied by its chimerical efforts, relapses into complete indolence. Its condition is that of a man who has only fallen asleep towards morning: first of all come great dreams, then a feeling of laziness, and finally a witty or clever excuse for remaining in bed.»
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
(Philosopher, Theologian)
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asleep, chimerical, fall asleep, first of all, indolence, laziness, relapse, relapses, remaining, wearied, witty
«The discovery of the good taste of bad taste can be very liberating. The man who insists on high and serious pleasures is depriving himself of pleasure; he continually restricts what he can enjoy; in the constant exercise of his good taste he will eventually price himself out of the market, so to speak. Here Camp taste supervenes upon good taste as a daring and witty hedonism. It makes the man of good taste cheerful, where before he ran the risk of being chronically frustrated. It is good for the digestion.»
Author: Susan Sontag
(Activist, Critic, Writer)
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Bad Taste, camp, cheerful, chronically, depriving, digestion, Discovery of, frustrated, Good taste, hedonism, insists, ran, restrict, restricted, restricts, so to speak, The Discovery, the market, witty
«She marking them begins a wailing note And sings extemporally a woeful ditty; How love makes young men thrall and old men dote; How love is wise in folly, foolish-witty: Her heavy anthem still concludes in woe, And still the choir of echoes answer so»
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