The bristling eyebrows shot up in mock surprise. Mesmerized, the boy watched them disappear under the hanging thatch of white hair. There, almost coyly, they remained just out of sight for a moment, before suddenly descending with a terrible finality and weight.
Jonathan StroudI have a different idea of elegance. I don't dress like a fop, it's true, but my moral grooming is impeccable. I never appear in public with a soiled conscience, a tarnished honor, threadbare scruples, or an insult that I haven't washed away. I'm always immaculately clean, adorned with independence and frankness. I may not cut a stylish figure, but I hold my soul erect. I wear my deeds as ribbons, my wit is sharper then the finest mustache, and when I walk among men I make truths ring like spurs.
Edmond RostandTag: morality conscience wit elegance honour
Steven dreamed of you the very second
you died
(So the poem goes)
and you may have visited him
But I'm pretty sure you don't believe
in poems
I am a master of foolhardy plans.
Megan Whalen TurnerTag: planning wit foolishness
Never be less interesting than your refrigerator magnets.
Demetri MartinWe both smile at the classic misunderstanding. It’s all so cliché-ridden, it’s embarrassing. I wish our story could have some more original twists and turns. Maybe one of us will turn into a vampire or something.
Stacy KramerTag: wit misunderstanding cliche
When a man in a forest thinks he is going forward in a straight line, in reality he is going in a circle, I did my best to go in a circle, hoping to go in a straight line.
Samuel BeckettTag: wit logic forest part-i beckett malone-dies molloy page-94 part-1 sly the-unnamable
She was widely read enough to appreciate my literary wit but not so widely read that she knew my sources. I like that in a woman.
David MitchellTag: women wit literary-quotes
Wit, after all, is the unfailing symptom of intelligence.
Christopher HitchensThe best way to measure the loss of intellectual sophistication - this "nerdification," to put it bluntly - is in the growing disappearance of sarcasm, as mechanic minds take insults a bit too literally.
Nassim Nicholas TalebTag: wit sophistication internet nerd nerds irony post-modernism autism nerdiness post-ironic post-modern nerdery wisdom-vs-nerds intellectual-sophistication reddit
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