#wit

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 Stroud

#humor #wit #humor

Good madonna, give me leave to prove you a fool. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#fool #humor #labels #olivia #twelfth-night

Let me be clear. Last I was aware you were neither my husband nor my father nor my King. Therefore, any control you may imagine you hold over me is just that- imaginary ↗

— Sarah MacLean

#humor #sarah-maclean #the-season #wit #humor

You can con God and get away with it, Granny said, if you do so with charm and wit. If you live your life with imagination and verve, God will play along just to see what outrageously entertaining thing you'll do next. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#con #god #imagination #life #verve

She never forgets a slight, real or imagined. She takes caution for cowardice and dissent for defiance. And she is greedy. Greedy for power, for honour, for love. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#cersei-lannister #greed #love #power #tyrion-lannister

The logic behind magic is that we create what we are imagining. ↗

— Mary Faulkner

#magick #wicca #witchcraft #imagination

Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness. ↗

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#autism #humor #intelligence #nerd #nerds

Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven. ↗

— Francis Beaumont

#companions #earth #faith #fly #heaven

His father was an ass and he is an ass. I imagine sooner than I should like I shall be playing uncle to a litter of asses. ↗

— T.A. Miles

#clever #dry-humor #fantasy #uncle #wit

The most unhappy people in the world are those who face the days without knowing what to do with their time. But if you have more projects than you have time for, you are not going to be an unhappy person. This is as much a question of having imagination and curiosity as it is of actually making plans. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#noelle-hancock #imagination