Indexed in the public record
“Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Little Gypsy (La Gitanilla).
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- ca571a7beffdb7630d97d931b636830af4d3c6fc4749749fa0647919b26b21f2
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
Related in the record
“Brevity is the soul of wit.”
William Shakespeare
RegisterMyQuote seed corpus (src/lib/seed-quotes.ts)
“Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering teach the rest to sneer; Willing to…”
Alexander Pope
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee.”
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“Never to blend our pleasure or our pride With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels.”
William Wordsworth
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“Give thy thoughts no tongue.”
William Shakespeare
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“Wit will shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line.”
John Dryden
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
Said something yourself? Put it on the record — $5.
A timestamped public registration for your own line — before someone else claims it.
This is an indexed reference citation, not a legal registry entry and not a claim of ownership.