"Half is better than none unless it be of a wit."
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"Half is better than none unless it be of a wit."
"Graham's life is as tense as an overstretched simile."
"Good madonna, give me leave toprove you a fool."
"The wittiest authors raise the very slightest of smiles."
"JACK. I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can’t go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an absolute public nuisance. I wish to goodness we had a few fools left. ALGERNON. We have. JACK. I should extremely like to meet them. What do they talk about?ALGERNON. The fools? Oh! about the clever people, of course. JACK. What fools!"
"When she walked by the two officers, they didn't recognize her. "Have you seen the luscious bonbon with the golden braids" She grinned up at them with such impish mischief that they almost forgot their quest for the singer. "She is with her lover," Hannah said. "But she can always handle one or two more." She winked at them. "Go there, through that door." She made her escape while the uniformed hobbledehoys gawked and gaped and finally burst into the dressing room where Franz, the three-hundred-pound juggling strongman, was adjusting his loincloth. "I ought not do it," Hannah said aloud to herself as chaos erupted behind her. "I just can't seem to help myself. it is a shame, really."
"Jimmy Murray, you are an ass,' said Aunt Ruth, angrily.'Well, we're cousins,' agreed Cousin Jimmy pleasantly."
"Lingerer, my brain is on fire with impatience; and you tarry so long!"
"Both were military. That was clear. Reacher could tell by their haircuts. No civilian barber would be as pragmatic or as brutal."
"This is a lot more satisfying," he said, "when I have intelligent life whom I can render awed, rapt with attention for my clever verbosity."The ugly lizard-crab-thing on the next rock over clicked its claw, an almost hesitant sound."Your right, of course," Wit said. "My usual audience isn't particularly intelligent. That was also the obvious joke, however, so shame on you."
"Does the king know you're back"Nope! I'm trying to think of a properly dramatic way to inform him. Perhaps a hundred chasmfiends marching in unison, singing an ode to my magnificence."That sounds… hard."Yeah, the storming things have real trouble tuning their tonic chords and maintaining just intonation."I have no idea what you just said."Yeah, the storming things have real trouble tuning their tonic chords and maintaining just intonation."
"It was rather too late in the day to set about being simple-minded and ignorant."
"In retrospect, I am very nearly as sharp as I pretend to be."
"There was a party of well-dressed people with Gilt, and as they progressed accoss the room the whole place began to revolve around the big man, gold being very dense and having a gravity all of its own."
"Being a Gentleman, has more to do with hiding his flaws, than exhibiting the virtues!"
"A palindrome,” I said the first time she told me. She looked at me, perplexed, and that’s when I knew I could never love her. What a waste of a palindrome she was, that Hannah.-Owen Gentry"
"Her face collapsed like a bad poem"
"Snark is a fabulous defense mechanism."
"Always remember that you have been called worse things by better people."
"Always remember that you can explain things for people, but you can't comphrend for them."
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