Wit must be foiled by wit: cut a diamond with a diamond.


William Congreve

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Wit must be foiled by wit : cut a diamond with a diamond
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EDWARD YOUNG
A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
JOSEPH ROUX
A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
JOSEPH ROUX
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
JOSEPH ROUX
You could have it cut and have a customized diamond for your wife.
BRENDAN BELL
Diamond cuts diamond.
UNKNOWN
A star is a floating diamond; a diamond is a buried star.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO
The most expensive diamond ever purchased was a red diamond.
KYLE HAIN
Pressure busts pipes -- but it can also make a diamond. I'm a diamond.
TROY SMITH
Reply to wit with gravity, and to gravity with wit.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
A diamond in the rough is worth just as much as a diamond in the clear.
MAXWELL MORGAN INGRAM
To sever the ties of friendship, one must shatter diamond.
SIDDHARTH KONKIMALLA
Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.
CONFUCIUS
Each diamond is unique, but first and foremost you want a diamond to pop and sparkle.
KYLE HAIN
Diamond on the Manatee. It's a special little place that is cut off from the rest of the world.
ERIC WOLF
Humans always want to identify with the refined diamond but the diamond in the rough we ignorantly j...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
A diamond doesn't start out polished and shining. It once was nothing special, but with enough press...
SOLANGE NICOLE
Its hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world.
DOLLY PARTON
Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without one.
CHINESE PROVERB
Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without one.
CHINESE PROVERBS
There's a helluva distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply...
DOROTHY PARKER
Anyone with a GIA Diamond Grading Report or Diamond Dossier can verify the accuracy of their report ...
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There's a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simp...
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I shine bright like an excellent cut round brilliant diamond, D in color, and flawless clarity.
STEPHANIE LAHART
A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.
ALEXANDER POPE
Much malice mingles with a little wit.
JOHN DRYDEN
A diamond is pressure's masterpiece.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO
I see a diamond that someone try to turn back into coal.
CLOTILDE MARTINEZ
The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys w...
FLORENCE KING
A tooth is much more to be prized than a diamond.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA
In a world full of pebbles dare to be a diamond.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO
A real diamond is never perfect.
ANTHONY DOERR
A diamond with a flaw is worth more than a pebble without imperfections.
CHINESE PROVERB
A diamond with a flaw is worth more than a pebble without imperfections
CHINESE PROVERB
If I were feeling any more pressure, I'd be a diamond.
AL JEAN
If I had a ringtone, it would probably be Neil Diamond.
EVAN SPIEGEL
If you sell diamonds, you cannot expect to have many customers. But a diamond is a diamond even if t...
SWAMI PRABHUPADA
While twilight's curtain gathering far, Is pinned with a single diamond star.
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The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will ...
DANIEL DEFOE
The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will ...
DANIEL DEFOE
A diamond with a flaw is better than a common stone that is perfect.
CHINESE PROVERB
Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.
NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB
He stood out like a diamond ring.
BOB DOZIER
Always keep a diamond in your mind.
TOM WAITS
We're looking at a typical diamond interchange.
LLOYD MACADAM
Oh Diamond! Diamond! Thou little knowest the mischief done! (Said to a pet dog who knocked over a ca...
ISAAC NEWTON
One day they'll realize they lost a diamond while playing with worthless stones.
TURCOIS OMINEK
Excellence is making a rubber shoe initially; later making a leather shoe; then later making a leath...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR
By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.
E.M. FORSTER
They're supposed to be independent but still swoon over a diamond engagement ring.
LIZ PERLE
Our victory is as pure as a diamond,
VELIMIR ILIC
The future is bright like a shining diamond.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
A simple token carries the significance of a diamond
TALIA G. CANO
Many live by their wits but few by their wit
DR. LAURENCE J. PETER
The diamond does not need to prove its worth. It is in fact the person who must teach him/herself to...
C. JOYBELL C.
You can be distracted by all the facts and figure on a lab report. But you always should look at the...
KYLE HAIN
Our victory is as pure as a diamond. Kostunica is the elected president and we must persist in our r...
VELIMIR ILIC
What I do is kick them in the pants with a diamond-buckled shoe.
AILEEN MEHLE
Wit penetrates; humor envelops. Wit is a function of verbal intelligence; humor is imagination ope...
PEGGY NOONAN
Wit penetrates; humor envelops. Wit is a function of verbal intelligence; humor is imagination opera...
PEGGY NOONAN
She smiled and said with an ecstatic air: "It shines like a little diamond",
"What does?"
...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
An imitation rough diamond.
MARGOT ASQUITH
To be a wit, intelligence is enough; to be a poet takes imagination
CARDINALDE BERNIS
Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.
ROBERT LEIGHTON
Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.
THOMAS CARLYLE
Adversity is the diamond dust heaven polishes its jewels with.
ROBERT LEIGHTON
To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.
ANDRE MAUROIS
She was a diamond in a quarry full of quartz.
EVELYN SKYE
Life is a messy business. Messy is diamond grinding.
LILY CHATTERJEE
An original pebble is better than a counterfeit diamond.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO
A muddied diamond is better than an unsullied pebble.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO
If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.
FRANCIS BACON
If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.
FRANCIS BACON SR.
The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.
FRANCIS BACON
Accept a miracle; instead of wit,-- See two dull lines by Stanhope's pencil writ.
ALEXANDER POPE
Diamonds & businesses are one & alike,for they are meant to last forever.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
Books are more precious than jewels. She truly believed this. What did a diamond bring you? A moment...
VERONICA HENRY
It doubled our membership. They're coming in so fast and furious.
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I don't think anything is going to come out of the six-party talks. At best it will become something...
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80 percent of the hard work is still in front of us. But in the past, North Korea has been surprisin...
JOEL WIT
The US has to be an active participant from the very beginning.
JOEL WIT
The Chinese will help them out. China is already the biggest food donor to North Korea. Beijing will...
JOEL WIT
I'm not full of malice, but I do dislike Neil Diamond a lot, and I'm sorry that I've don...
ROBERT WYATT
What I kept pressing upon them is one of the greatest gems there is — a diamond. A diamond, whethe...
JOHN CHANEY
Soar with wit. Conquer with dignity. Handle with care.
CRISS JAMI
Stupidity is brief and guileless, while wit equivocates and hides. Wit is a scoundrel, while stupidi...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY
Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough.
MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE
If you want to shine like a diamond, be prepared to handle pressure like one.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO
Pressure can burst a pipe or pressure can make a diamond.
ROBERT HORRY
And the second row, an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond.
BIBLE
A Diamond may last a lifetime but only Love is forever.
DANIEL POLISENO
Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
This diamond has so many carats it's almost a turnip
RICHARD BURTON
A diamond earns its sparkle from the pressure it endures.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO
Wit. The salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.
AMBROSE BIERCE
Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.
AMBROSE BIERCE
Therefore, it is we who are responsible for much of the evil in the world; and we are each morally r...
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Anyone can be confident with a full head of hair. But a confident bald man - there's your diamon...
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He's got such a wit and sense of humor like no other. He says things that will cut you without being...
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WILLIAM JAMES
Man produces evil as a bee produces honey.
WILLIAM GOLDING
No man knows the value of innocence and integrity but he who has lost them.
WILLIAM GODWIN
Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
WILLIAM COWPER
I like not fair terms and a villain's mind.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination.
WILLIAM GODWIN
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
WILLIAM JAMES
Tenderness is the name for a lover's most exquisite sensation; protection is implied in his most...
WILLIAM GODWIN
If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? A...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
We shall not be happy unless we live like good animals, unless we enjoy the exercise of the ordinary...
WILLIAM MORRIS
The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.
WILLIAM PENN
In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before t...
WILLIAM PENN
To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we ...
WILLIAM PENN
Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.
WILLIAM WESTMORELAND
Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE