Witty Quotes - page 4

My commentary's hilarious, not witty. (Richelle Mead)
I always love it whenever Rose delivers one of her witty one-liners-particularly when it's a completely serious situation. The contrast always amuses me, but then, I'm biased. View quote
Richelle Mead
My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony. View quote
Maurice Sendak
How then can the curious drawer watch, and as it were catch these lovely graces, witty smilings, and those stolen glances which suddenly like lightning pass, and another countenance taketh place, except to behold and very well note and conceit to like. View quote
Nicholas Hilliard
If you fight angry, you make a lot of mistakes, and when you fight a sharp, witty fighter like me, you can't make mistakes. View quote
Floyd Mayweather
Well, remember what you said, because in a day or two, I'll have a witty and blistering retort! You'll be devastated THEN. View quote
Bill Watterson
A better plan would be to head straight for Bart's Guide to London, since that's hugely entertaining and witty, i. e. written by me. View quote
Jonathan Stroud
There is that glorious epicurean paradox uttered by my friend the historian, in one of his flashing moments 'Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries.' To this must certainly be added that other saying of one of the wittiest of men 'Good Americans when they die go to Paris.' View quote
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play. View quote
William Congreve
Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue. View quote
Francis Bacon
For such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; Yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves: For they see their own wit at hand, and other men's at a distance. (Thomas Hobbes)
The characters can't be wittier than people are in real life. They have to be character witty. View quote
Dylan Moran
Old Madame du Deffand and her friends talked for fifty years without stopping. And of it all, what remains? Perhaps three witty sayings. View quote
Virginia Woolf
The crimes of the United States have been systematic, constant, vicious, remorseless, but very few people have actually talked about them. You have to hand it to America. It has exercised a quite clinical manipulation of power worldwide while masquerading as a force for universal good. It's a brilliant, even witty, highly successful act of hypnosis. View quote
Harold Pinter
For conversation well endued; She calls it witty to be rude; And, placing raillery in railing, Will tell aloud your greatest failing. View quote
Jonathan Swift
I've played Bach since I was a little girl. I can't let a day go by without playing him. He's so witty and secretive and funny and mathematical and brilliant. View quote
Joanna MacGregor
In Geneva lived Jean-Jacques Rousseau. He too was a rebel, mighty in war. Voltaire was keener, wittier, deeper, greater. Rousseau was more fiery, emotional, passionate. Both were really warriors in the same great cause. From their different places, three miles apart, both sent forth their thunderbolts to wake a sleeping world. When the world awakened and shook itself, churches, thrones, institutions, laws, and customs were buried in the wreck. Some charged the wreck to Voltaire, some to Rousseau. View quote
Clarence Darrow
Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true. View quote
Albert Schweitzer
The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth. View quote
Stendhal
No, sir, I'm not saying that charming, witty and warm copy won't sell. I'm just saying I've seen thousands of charming, witty campaigns that didn't sell. View quote
Rosser Reeves
Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit. (Christian Nestell Bovee)
Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind; Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave. I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned. View quote
Edna St. Vincent Millay
No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech. View quote
Kin Hubbard
Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood. View quote
William Shakespeare
I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men. View quote
William Shakespeare