A Quote by Arthur Conan Doyle

There are no fools so troublesome as those who have some wit.

Arthur Conan Doyle

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Fools Some Those Troublesome Wit

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Arthur Conan Doyle
British - Writer
May 22, 1859 - July 7, 1930

By wit we search divine aspect above, By wit we learn what secrets science yields, By wit we speak, by wit the mind is rul'd, By wit we govern all our actions; Wit is the loadstar of each human thought, Wit is the tool by which all things are wrought.

Robert Greene

It is useless to talk with those who do not understand one and troublesome to talk with those who criticize from a feeling of superiority. Especially one-sided persons are troublesome. Few are accomplished in many arts and most cling narrowly to their own opinion.

Murasaki Shikibu

Fortune, the great commandress of the world, Hath divers ways to advance her followers: To some she gives honor without deserving; To other some, deserving without honor; Some wit, some wealth,--and some, wit without wealth; Some wealth without wit; some nor wit nor wealth.

George Chapman

Passion very often makes the wisest men fools, and very often too inspires the greatest fools with wit.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Silence is the wit of fools.

Anatole France

It is in some ways more troublesome to track and swat an evasive wasp than to shoot, at close range, a wild elephant. But the elephant is more troublesome if you miss.

C. S. Lewis

There are three kinds of fools in this world, fools proper, educated fools and rich fools. The world persists because of the folly of these fools.

Narayanananda Swami.

I will keep where there is wit stirring, and leave the faction of fools.

William Shakespeare

Deprived of the company of fools, a great wit does not seem half so clever.

Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt

Pun: A form of wit, to which wise men stoop and fools aspire

Ambrose Bierce

It is having in some measure a sort of wit to know how to use the wit of others.

Stanislaw I Leszczynski

No fools are so difficult to manage as those with some brains.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It may be remarked in general, that the laugh of men of wit is for the most part but a feint, constrained kind of half-laugh, as such persons are never without some diffidence about them; but that of fools is the most honest, natural, open laugh in the world.

Richard Steele

Troublesome things tend to remain troublesome no matter how many times you do them.

Daniel Handler

Wit is artificial; humor is natural. Wit is accidental; humor is inevitable. Wit is born of conscious effort; humor, of the allotted ironies of fate. Wit can be expressed only in language; humor can be developed sufficiently in situation.