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“Melancholy men are of all others the most witty.”
Aristotle
“I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.”
Oscar Wilde
“Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.”
John Lennon
“Life is extraordinarily suave and sweet with certain natural, witty, affectionate people who have unusual distinction and are capable of every vice, but who make a display of none in public and about whom no one can affirm they have a single one. There is something supple and secret about them. Besides, their perversity gives spice to their most innocent occupations, such as taking a walk in the garden at night.”
Marcel Proust
“Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.”
G. K. Chesterton
“Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.”
William Shakespeare
“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.”
Mark Twain
“Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.”
Henry Fielding
“Conquered people tend to be witty.”
Saul Bellow
“Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.”
Francis Bacon Sr.
