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There is a quickness of perception in some, a nicety in the discernment of character, a natural penetration, in short, which no experience in others can equal ...
willingness to try a lot of things and make many mistakes.
Eloquence is an art of saying things in such a way (1) that those to whom we speak may listen to them without pain and with pleasure; (2) that they feel themselves interested, so that self-love leads them more willingly to reflection upon it.
Wit is absolutely sociable spirit or aphoristic genius.
Among some people arrogance supplies the place of grandeur, inhumanity of decision, and roguery of intelligence.
A man of sense, though born without wit, often lives to have wit. His memory treasures up ideas and reflections; he compares themwith new occurrences, and strikes out new lights from the collision. The consequence is sometimes bons mots, and sometimes apothegms.
Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.
Genius
the free and harmonious play of all the faculties of a human being.
Witty, brooding, contemplative, explosive: take your pick.
Genuine and innocent wit is surely the very flavor of the mind.
Eloquence: saying the proper thing and stopping.
The key to spontaneous wit is an unburdened mind.
One of those personalities who, in spite of all their words, are inarticulate
A spirit of candor and frankness, when wholly unaccompanied with coarseness, he
admired in others, but he could not acquire it himself.
Wit is an unexpected explosion of thought.
...habit of speaking in paragraphs.
Wanderlust. These are words that I associate with him now. Not genius. Not gifted. Extraordinary in any way.
Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak.
That wit is truly amiable, which gladdens and enlivens every thing, which shines with a lustre gentle, but not faint, and powerful, but not glaring.
Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.
By nature, I suppose I have a languorous disposition
Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.
Curiosity deepest connection that we have with knowledge, wisdom and life. Incuriosity is cutting all these connections.
A certain cynicism, born of the life she has led; a streak of strange wisdom; the wistfulness behind the gaiety; sometimes fear; and nearly always the memory of loneliness that hurts the soul.
The intelligence of an individual in not a fixed quantity.
Dorothy Parker once said: I require three things in a man. He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid." Upon delivering this Dot bon mot, with much waving of sparkly rings and jingly bracelets, Constance Langtry comments that she'd add a fourth: "Deft tongue. And I don't mean a good talker.
Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will.
Failing to look inscrutable to any but the habitually dismissive ...
Charm of the most insidious kind: humorous, self-deprecating, and disarmingly frank and confiding.
Curious by nature and reckless by choice
RASCALITY, n. Stupidity militant. The activity of a clouded intellect.
[mannerism is when] you think you have all these great ideas, and none of them are good at the end of the day. But while you are pursuing those other things subconsciously happen.
What beauty there is in words; what a lurking curious charm in the sound some words.
Lugubrious and pretentious at the same time.
Failure.
That is a word so little to our taste that many think it a virtue to claim that they never admit it. But blind stupidity is not one of the virtues; it is a weakness ...
One should have wit, but not wish to have it; otherwise there will be witticism, the Alexandrian style of wit.
The most eloquent seems to stutter.
The ability to know one's limitations, to recognize the bounds of one's own comprehension - this is a kind of knowing that approaches wisdom.
Quick-wittedness can be very lonely.
The need to be right - the sign of a vulgar mind.
Wit, after all, is the unfailing symptom of intelligence.
That faculty of beholding at a hint the face of his desire and the shape of his dream, without which the earth would know no lover and no adventurer.
I suppose it's an unconscious little stream of wit that flows quietly under everything I do or say.
Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.
Impetuosity and audacity often achieve what ordinary means fail to achieve.
One thinking it is right to speak all things, whether the word is fit for speech or unutterable.
Eloquence resides as much in the tone of voice, in the eyes, and in the expression of the face, as in the choice of words.
The immense profundity of thought in vulgar locutions, like holes dug by generations of ants.
to see failure not as a sign of stupidity but as lack of experience and skill. Your
Often we are firm from weakness, and audacious from timidity.
that wild charisma and wanderlust.
Charm is a cunning self-forgetfulness.
Confidence in conversation has a greater share than wit.
They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper.
Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education, and the most common among the uneducated.
There was something very taking in her face which owed nothing to the excellence of her features: an expression of sweetness, a sparkle of irrepressible fun, an unusually open look, quite devoid of self-consciousness.
A wicked sense of humor, this one.
There is a certain imperiousness, in the manner of speaking and in actions, which makes itself felt everywhere, and soon wins attention and respect. This commanding quality is useful in all affairs, and even for obtaining what we ask for.
I found our speech copious without order, and energetic without rules
Wit is the unexpected copulation of ideas.
I like to think that my arrogance, impetuosity, impatience, selfishness and greed are the qualities that make me the lovable chap I am.
Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.
Usefulness! It is not a fascinating word, and the quality is not one of which the aspiring spirit can dream o' nights, yet on the stage it is the first thing to aim at.
There's a certain pattern that exists with geniuses - an eccentricity, a lack of social graces and an inability to really communicate with mere mortals.
And wit's the noblest frailty of the mind.
To swear with a ferocity that can only be described as a talent.
What quick wit is found in sudden straits!
What so wild as words are?
The stupidity of one brain multiplied by twelve.
Charm lies in complete forgetfulness of self.
Cojones: it's a thing you either have or don't.
Being words, being lips that bleed.
Enigmatic - the quality of keeping silent and making people wonder if one is stupid rather than opening one's mouth and removing all doubt.
humble self- confidence.
The world of the egotist is, inevitably, a narrow world, and the boundaries of self are limited to the close horizon of personality ... But, within this horizon, there is room for many attributes that are excellent ...
my own fatal tendency to try to make interesting people good. And
Witty and mean is easy - but fond and funny is hard.
Intelligent and alert, wistful but enthusiastic, frank yet tactful, assured without conceit and tender without sentimentality.
Unquestionable ability elevates our personality.
Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, and fills up all the mighty void of sense.
Manner, as much as matter, constitutes eloquence.
The ability of mixing sweetness with sarcasm, to the point that the other person has no idea if I'm being rude or not. It's an art really - charlie
But he found himself rounding syllables like stones in his mouth, silently. He knew he was shy, and thought to be stupid; he was beginning to suspect, thought, that he wasn't stupid. Perhaps not even slow. Merely uneducated. But not, he hoped, uneducable.
Something which, for want of a more definite term at present, I must be permitted to be called queer; but which Mr. Coleridge would have called mystical, Mr. Kant pantheistical, Mr. Carlyle twistical, and Mr. Emerson hyperquizzitistical.
On being: Arrogance is not the prerogative of the gifted.
Eloquence is the art of saying as little as possible but making it sound as much as possible.
An ability to look into the confusing mess of life and see things for what they are.
The temerity to believe in nothing.
Without taste genius is only a sublime kind of folly. That sure touch which the lyre gives back the right note and nothing more, is even a rarer gift than the creative faculty itself.
Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity.
When one thinks profusely and cleverly, not only his face but his body too takes on a clever appearance.
He who cannot shine by thought, seeks to bring himself into notice by a witticism.
The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter and a scarcity of words; for whosoever is a master of language, and hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both.
Intellects whose desires have outstripped their understanding.
Things: your perspective or beliefs about yourself, and a quality we can call "like-ability." Like-ability can be defined as the ability to build rapport so that others listen to you. We listen to the people we like.
Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.
The steady and undissipated attention to one object is a sure mark of a superior genius; as hurry, bustle, and agitation are the never-failing symptoms of a weak and frivolous mind.
Intuition is the highest form of intelligence, transcending all individual abilities and skills
There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.
The subject is said to have the property of making dull men eloquent.