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William Shakespeare Quote: 'Brevity is the soul of wit. ...'

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Impropriety is the soul of wit.


W. Somerset Maugham
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Infancy is what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.


Antonio Porchia
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Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.


Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Through an arbitrary problem, I had arrived at a tenet of good writing: brevity wins.


Michael Winter
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I take six or seven years to write really small books. There is a kind of aesthetic of leanness, of brevity.
Mohsin Hamid
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Indeed I had not much wit, yet I was not an idiot - my wit was according to my years.


Margaret Cavendish
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The well of true wit is truth itself.


George Meredith
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A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.


Alexander Pope
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Wit is the only wall between us and the dark.


Mark Van Doren
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Giving votes in exchange for ideological support. To wit: identity politics for homosexuals.


Harry Hay
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Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government.


Elizabeth I
The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners.
Florence King
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I think puns are not just the lowest form of wit, but the lowest form of human behavior.


John Oliver
Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.
Madame de Stael
What is this powerful have over my tub? Surely, I am transfixed by your firecracker charm and your suspended electrified wit.
Isabel Yosito
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Dad was synonymous with his charm and wit and grace, and it was sort of the perfect way to go for him.
Jennifer Grant
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Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of wisdom and a means of survival.
Tom Robbins
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Tennis: the most perfect combination of athleticism, artistry, power, style, and wit. A beautiful game, but one so remorselessly travestied by the passage of time.
Martin Amis
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He's a fool that marries, but he's a greater that does not marry a fool; what is wit in a wife good for, but to make a man a cuckold?
William Wycherley
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I definitely did look up to John. We all looked up to John. He was older and he was very much the leader; he was the quickest wit and the smartest.
Paul McCartney
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