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witty
«It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.»
Author: Honore de Balzac
(Novelist)
| About:
Husbands,
Marriage
| Keywords:
from time to time, Pretty Things, witty
«It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to produce the occasional bon mot»
Author: Honore de Balzac
(Novelist)
| About:
Husbands,
Lovers
| Keywords:
Bon, bon mot, MOT, mots, occasional, 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.»
«Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| About:
History,
Humanity,
Logic,
Mankind,
Mathematics,
Morality,
Philosophy,
Poets
| Keywords:
contend, Histories, moral philosophy, natural history, natural philosophy, rhetoric, witty
«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
«One may be continually abusive without saying any thing just; but one cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty»
«Observe it, the vulgar often laugh, but never smile, whereas well-bred people often smile, and seldom or never laugh. A witty thing never excited laughter, it pleases only the mind and never distorts the countenance.»
