Tag: humor wit comedy mockery obliviousness comedie good-natured
It's common platitude that knowledge is neutral but every now and then it would be useful if it was on your side and not theirs.
John BrunnerBrevity is the soul of wit.
Alexander PopeTag: wit
Nothing evokes the prurient like puritanism.
Christopher MooreTag: wit witty puritanism
He remembered having said to his uncle (with a solemn dogmatism better befitting a much younger man): "Surely it is possible to love with the head as well as the heart." Mr. Delagardie had replied, somewhat drily: "No doubt; so long as you do not end by thinking with your entrails instead of your brain.
Dorothy L. SayersTag: love wit rationality
Wit and puns aren't just decor in the mind; they're essential signs that the mind knows it's on, recognizes its own software, can spot the bugs in its own program.
Adam GopnikTag: humor thinking mind wit self-awareness brain puns speaking
If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination. Once begun upon this downward path, you never know where you are to stop. Many a man has dated his ruin from some murder or other that perhaps he thought little of at the time.
Thomas de QuinceyI no longer believe in love," she said bitterly. "When people claim to have lost their heart, it's usually only their wits that have vanished.
Peter PrangeTag: love wit bitterness
No sensible man ever engages, unprepared, in a fencing match of words with a woman.
Wilkie CollinsTag: empowerment men women wit argument superiority dispute
Rebecca was an academic star. Her new book was on the phenomenon of word casings, a term she'd invented for words that no longer had meaning outside quotation marks. English was full of these empty words--"friend" and "real" and "story" and "change"--words that had been shucked of their meanings and reduced to husks. Some, like "identity" and "search" and "cloud," had clearly been drained of life by their Web usage. With others, the reasons were more complex; how had "American" become an ironic term? How had "democracy" come to be used in an arch, mocking way?
Jennifer EganTag: democracy america language wit web disgust
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