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“Writing well is at one and the same time good thinking, good feeling, and good expression; it is having wit, soul, and taste, all together.”

Thinking Writing Wells Soul Feelings Together Expression Taste Wit Good Feeling Writing Well Good Thinking Thinking Good

Author:Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

“Brevity may be the soul of wit, but not when someone's saying "I love you.”

May Soul Love You Wit Brevity Say I Love You

Book:Love and Guilt and the Meaning of Life, Etc.

Source: Love and Guilt and the Meaning of Life, Etc.

“Soul of the age! The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare , rise; I will not lodge thee by Chaucer or Spenser , or bid Beaumont lie A little further, to make thee a room; Thou art a monument, without a tomb, And art alive still, while thy book doth live, And we have wits to read , and praise to give .”

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Book:Ben Jonson

Source: Ben Jonson

“When we look to presumed sources of origin for competing evolutionary explanations of the giraffe's long neck, we find either nothing at all, or only the shortest of speculative conjectures. Length, of course, need not correspond with importance. Garrulous old Polonius , in a rare moment of clarity, reminded us that "brevity is the soul of wit" (and then immediately vitiated his wise observation with a flood of woolly words about Hamlet 's Madness.”

“The difference between genuine poetry and the poetry of Dryden, Pope, and all their school, is briefly this: their poetry is conceived and composed in their wits, genuine poetry is conceived and composed in the soul.”

Soul School Differences Wit Genuine Poetry Is Pope

Author:Matthew Arnold

“A jargon form'd from the lost language, wit, Confounded in that Babel of the pit; Form'd by diseased conceptions, weak and wild, Sick lust of souls, and an abortive child; Born between whores and fops, by lewd compacts, Before the play, or else between the acts; Nor wonder, if from such polluted minds Should spring such short and transitory kinds.”

Ifs Should Mind Kind Children Soul Play Form Lost Language Born Wonder Spring Weak Sick Wit Lust Conception Pits Transitory Jargon Diseased Babel

Book:The Works of of the Rev. Jonathan Swift

Source: The Works of of the Rev. Jonathan Swift

“Behold great Whitman, whose licentious line Delights the rake, and warms the souls of swine; Whose fever'd fancy shuns the measur'd pace, And copies Ovid's filth without his grace. In his rough brain a genius might have grown, Had he not sought to play the brute alone; But void of shame, he let his wit run wild, And liv'd and wrote as Adam's bestial child.”

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Book:The Conservative

Source: The Conservative

“Digression is the soul of wit.”

Book:Fahrenheit 451: A Novel

Source: Fahrenheit 451: A Novel

“Wit,--the pupil of the soul's clear eye.”

Soul Eye Clear Wit Pupils Clear Eyes

Book:The Original, Nature, and Immortality of the Soul: A Poem

Source: The Original, Nature, and Immortality of the Soul: A Poem

“The writings of women are always cold and pretty like themselves. There is as much wit as you may desire, but never any soul.”

Writing May Soul Desire Literature Cold Wit

Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Want is a bitter and a hateful good, Because its virtues are not understood; Yet many things, impossible to thought, Have been by need to full perfection brought. The daring of the soul proceeds from thence, Sharpness of wit, and active diligence; Prudence at once, and fortitude it gives; And, if in patience taken, mends our lives.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)