True wit is nature to advantage dress’d, What oft was thought, but ne’er so well express’d.

Alexander Pope · An Essay on Criticism, II

The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, And wretches hang that jurymen may dine.

Alexander Pope · The Rape of the Lock, III

Alexander Pope · The Rape of the Lock, II

Alexander Pope · The Dunciad, I

More Witty Quotes

Ovid · The source reads: “They come to see; they come that they themselves may be.”

Don DeLillo · White Noise (1985)

Walter Bagehot

Every general-knowledge topic and the A-to-Z lists.

The world A to Z: flags, countries, the sciences, places, people, subjects.