W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Wishing, hoping and regretting are the most common and dangerous tactics for evading the present.”
“Wishing, like sipping a glass of punch, or pulling aside a bearskin rug in order to access a hidden trapdoor in the floor, is merely a quiet way to spend one's time before the candles are extinguished on one's birthday cake.”
“Wisps of clouds scattered across the heavens, as if brought to their place by a great sigh.”
Source: Peter
“Wisps of white mist trailed across Thunderbolt's tremendous wings as the three runaways broke through the low-hanging fog that separated the city from the sky. As they settled into a smooth glide above the clouds, Ember turned her face into the wind and took a long, deep breath of the sweet, fresh, wild open air.
It tasted like freedom.”
Source: Firestorm
“Wispy clouds blew quickly across the sky, leaving a large swatch of clear cerulean blue. The wispy clouds foretold of a weather change. The crystal, clear, blue sky topped the Antwerpen blue of the ocean.”
Source: Between Earth and Sea: A Selkie Tale
“Wissen ist Vergangenheit, Denken ist Projektion, Erkennen geschieht nur jetzt.”
Source: Adler trinken Löwenmilch: Wie uralte Weisheit dir zeigt, jedes Problem in Stärke und Klarheit zu verwandeln, Chancen zu nutzen und Erfüllung im Alltag zu finden
“Wissen Sie, diese Ünfähigkeit zu spüren wird von der Seele als eine Art Schutzschild beispielsweise nach einer Traumatisierung aufgebaut. Das ist ganz natürlich und auch sehr nützlich. Es bewahrt Sie davor, Unerträgliches zu fühlen. Irgendetwas hat Sie veranlasst, sich zu schützen. Sie spüren sich selbst erst dann, wenn es schon fast zu spät ist, wenn Ihre Gefühle sich in einer Panikattacke entladen. Und wir müssen rausfinden, welche Verletzung bei Ihnen diese Reaktion ausgelöst haben könnte.”
Source: Mängelexemplar
“Wissenschaft ist Macht.”
“Wissenschaftler bedeutet Sonnenblume, denkst du so? Cyanid hier - versuch es, und alle bigotterie und primitivität wird verblassen.”
Source: Bulldozer on Duty
“Wisst ihr, was ich machen will?", fragt Abi in die Runde. "Ich will einer dieser Leute sein, die in Katastrophen- und Zombiefilmen umgebracht werden. Die, die keinen Namen haben und die man nur ganz kurz schreien sieht, bevor sie brutal abgeschlachtet werden. Muss sicher auch ein Beruf für sich allein sein.”
Source: Like water in your hands
“Wisteria never forgets.”
Source: Prince of Chandeliers
“Wistful in advance for the present moment.”
Source: Station Eleven
“Wistful notes spoke of loneliness, as solitary as the final birdsong of autumn or the trill of summer’s last cicada before the wintry freeze.”
Source: A Reflection of Ice
“Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.”
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“Wit and Humor - if any difference, it is in duration - lightning and electric light. Same material, apparently; but one is vivid, and can do damage - the other fools along and enjoys elaboration.”
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain
“Wit and humor belong to genius alone.”
Source: Don Quixote
“Wit and humor do not reside in slow minds.”
“Wit and humor seem to always factor into this - there's a tongue-in-cheek tone you get when you take on a formalist story - because there's an inherent voice you're trying to copy (and often to satirize).”
“Wit and judgment often are at strife.”
Source: The Works of Alexander Pope
“Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of wisdom and a means of survival.”
“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.”
“Wit and puns aren't just décor 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.”
“Wit and wisdom are born with a man.”
Source: Table talk: being the discourses of John Selden, esq., or his sense of various matters of weight and high consequence. Relating especially to religion and state
“Wit and wisdom differ; wit is upon the sudden turn, wisdom is bringing about ends.”
Source: Table Talk: Being the Discourses of John Selden
“Wit and woman are two frail things, and both the frailer by concurring.”
Source: The Miscellaneous Works in Verse and Prose of Sir Thomas Overbury, with Memoirs of His Life. The Tenth Edition
“Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.”
“Wit beyond measure is a man's greatest treasure.”
“Wit can be beautiful, because it expresses and distills an idea.”
“Wit catches of wit, as fire of fire.”
“Wit does not take the place of knowledge.”
“Wit doesn't make girls pretty.”
“Wit generally succeeds more from being happily addressed than from its native poignancy. A jest, calculated to spread at a gaming-table, may be received with, perfect indifference should it happen to drop in a mackerel-boat.”
Source: Essays
“Wit gives an edge to sense, and recommends it extremely.”
Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims
“Wit goes for the jugular, not the jocular, and it's the opposite of football; instead of building character, it tears it down.”
Source: Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye
“Wit has as few true judges as painting.”
Source: Country Wife and Other Plays
“Wit has its place in debate; in controversy it is a legitimate weapon, offensive and defensive.”
Source: Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons
“Wit has truth in it. Wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words - Dorothy Parker
I do whatever it is that's in the third category she fails to mention - Seth Goldberg”
“Wit implies hatred or contempt of folly and crime, produces its effects by brisk shocks of surprise, uses the whip of scorpions and the branding-iron, stabs, stings, pinches, tortures, goads, teases, corrodes, undermines.”
Source: Literature and life, lects
“Wit in conversation is only a readiness of thought and a facility of expression, or a quick conception and an easy delivery.”
Source: The works of Alexander Pope. With a selection of explanatory notes, and the account of his life by dr. Johnson
“Wit in women is a jewel, which, unlike all others, borrows lustre from its setting, rather than bestows it; since nothing is so easy as to fancy a very beautiful woman extremely witty.”
Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“Wit is a dangerous talent in friendship.”
“Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.”
Source: Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays
“Wit is a form of force that leaves the limbs at rest.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of George Eliot
“Wit is a pleasure-giving thing, largely because it eludes reason; but in the apprehension of an absurdity through the working of the comic spirit there is a foundation of reason, and an impetus to human companionship.”
“Wit is a sword; it is meant to make people feel the point as well as see it.”
“Wit is a thing capable of proof.”
“Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.”
“Wit is absolutely sociable spirit or aphoristic genius.”
“Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.”
“Wit is an intermittent fountain; kindness is a perennial spring.”