"The wittiest authors raise the very slightest of smiles."

Wit, Humor, Art, Life

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"The wittiest authors raise the very slightest of smiles."

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"Artemis: 'Right, brothers. Onward. Imagine yourself seated at a cafe in Montmartre.'Myles: 'In Paris.'Artemis: 'Yes, Paris. And try as you will, you cannot attract the waiter's attention. What do you do?'Beckett: 'Umm...tell Butler to jump-jump-jump on his head?'Myles: 'I agree with simple-toon.'Artemis: 'No! You simply raise one finger and say clearly 'ici, garcon.'Beckett: 'Itchy what?"

Eoin Colfer, Irish Author

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"I am often the brunt of my own humor."

Charles R. Swindoll, American Clergyman

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"What is perfectly true is perfectly witty."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest."

Jonathan Swift, Irish Writer

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"When you have wit of your own, it's a pleasure to credit other people for theirs."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

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"I'm keeping my acerbic wit completely fueled."

Janice Dickinson, American Model

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"Your wit makes others witty."

Catherine II, Russian Statesman

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"If I start giving people what they like I'll turn into one of them and I don't want to be one of them I want to be one of me."

Craig Ferguson, Scottish Comedian

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"If it works, it will be plenty dramatic. And I suppose that if it doesn't work, it will be even more dramatic, what with the blast.""David, I think you just made a joke."He frowned, utterly perplexed. "Did I?"

Leigh Bardugo, Israeli Author

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"Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade."

Noel Coward, English Playwright

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"What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind."

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"There is no such thing as moral phenomena, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena."

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"We have to cease to think, if we refuse to do it in the prison house of language; for we cannot reach further than the doubt which asks whether the limit we see is really a limit."

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"Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions."

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"The strongest intimidation, by the way, is the invention of a hereafter with a hell everlasting."

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"One should hold fast one's heart; for when one letteth it go, how quickly doth one's head run away!"

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"Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself."

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"What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?"

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"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently."

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"The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude."

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