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I implied that they were buds then." "And they accepted the implication?" "Oh, they are women of the world! They just swallowed it very quietly, as a well-bred person swallows a small easy-going bonbon." Craven could not help laughing. As he did so he saw in Miss Van Tuyn's eyes the thought: "You think me witty, and you're not far out."
A witty comment on the movement one that greatly amused Lincoln was the citation of a verse in first Samuel: "And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him; and he became a captain over them; and there were with him about four hundred men."
If a man is found to be wise and witty, ready and useful, able to do whatsoever he is put to, why is a sovereign, who has eyes to see the man's worth and courage to use it, to be accused of I know not what, because the said man happens to be good-looking? Now comes the turning-point of Raleigh's life. What does he intend to be? Soldier, statesman, scholar, or sea-adventurer?
Sydney Smith, on his side, was enchanted with Maria Edgeworth "Miss Edgeworth was delightful, so clever and sensible. She does not say witty things, but there is such a perfume of wit runs through all her conversation as makes it very brilliant." MISS EDGEWORTH to MRS. R. BUTLER. Christmas Day. A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. With the addition which Lestock has just been telling to Waller
We like it. And I think they like it, too. So Mr. Woods lost his heart on a fine spring morning and was unreasonably elated over the fact. And Margaret? Margaret was content. They talked for a matter of a half-hour in the fashion aforetime recorded not very wise nor witty talk, if you will, but very pleasant to make. There were many pauses. There was much laughter over nothing in particular.
The speech was far from brilliant, for Guido was beginning to feel the spell, and was not thinking so much of what he was saying as of what he longed to say. Most clever men are dull enough to suppose that they bore women when they suddenly lose their cleverness and say rather foolish things with an air of conviction, instead of very witty things with a studied look of indifference.
It is granted that the father of Horace was libertinus that is, one degree removed from his grandfather, who had been once a slave. But Horace, speaking of him, gives him the best character of a father which I ever read in history; and I wish a witty friend of mine, now living, had such another.
We can see how it was that Shelley overestimated both the character and the powers of Hunt; and Byron depreciated Keats, and was ultimately repelled by Wordsworth, and held out his hand to meet the manly grasp of Scott. The one enigma of their criticism is the respect that they joined in paying to the witty, genial, shallow, worldly, musical Tom Moore.
He had neither brother nor sister, neither son nor daughter. To him she was as beautiful as the Gunnings, and witty as Lady Mary. Her opinion of his writings was more important to him than the voice of the pit of Drury Lane Theatre, or the judgment of the Monthly Review.
Always and everywhere he was the magistrate that is, the representative, even to fanaticism, of what he thought the most august institution on the earth. Naturally gay, he would double-lock himself in when he wished to laugh. He was witty; but if a bright sally escaped him, you may be sure he repented of it.
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