Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
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To Sir Edward Dyer, as quoted in Apophthegms (1625) by Francis BaconElizabeth I of England
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Who can prove
Wit to be witty when with deeper ground
Dulness intuitive declares wit dull?George Eliot
Your wit makes others witty.
Catherine II of Russia
The rich were dull and they drank too much or they played too much backgammon. They were dull and they were repetitious. He remembered poor Julian and his romantic awe of them and how he had started a story once that began, "The very rich are different from you and me." And how someone had said to Julian, "Yes, they have more money."
Ernest Hemingway
A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.
George Meredith
My own experience is that the Bible is dull when I am dull. When I am really alive, and set in upon the text with a tidal pressure of living affinities, it opens, it multiplies discoveries, and reveals depths even faster than I can note them. The worldly spirit shuts the Bible; the Spirit of God makes it a fire, flaming out all meanings and glorious truths.
Horace Bushnell
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