"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."

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Edwin Percy Whipple

#Iron Quotes #Hatred Quotes #Scorpions Quotes

“When a human being without amplification makes a sound that is high and loud, it is almost unworldly.”
“When I feel lost and can't make a decision, I just stop and get quiet. I take a time-out.”
“One can't get over the habit of being a little girl all at once.”
“it wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short.”
“That's my answer to the question what is your strongest emotion, if you ever want to ask me: Curiosity, old bean. Curiosity every time.”

Source : Elaine Dundy (2010). “The Dud Avocado”, p.47, New York Review of Books
“Night, a more perfect day.”
“Probably a mistake, you know, that people make in America, to think that all great chefs are a male... I'm still the only male in the family who went into that business.”
“I like the timeframe involved in being an actor.”

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