Quotes with witty

  • All my brothers and sisters are really witty, and I would just sit back and enjoy them.
  • A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual shortcomings.
  • The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners.
  • 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.
  • It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
  • There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature - the malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick.
  • Next to being witty yourself, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.
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  • William Shakespeare Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Voltaire A witty saying proves nothing.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Irvin S. Cobb A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual shortcomings.
    Irvin S. Cobb
    American author, humorist, editor and columnist (1876 - 1944)
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  • George D. Prentice A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.
    George D. Prentice
    American newspaper editor (1802 - 1870)
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  • Bonnie Hunt All my brothers and sisters are really witty, and I would just sit back and enjoy them.
    Bonnie Hunt
    American actress, comedian, director and producer (1961 - )
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  • Francis Bacon Anger makes dull men witty - but it keeps them poor.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Queen Elizabeth I Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
    Queen Elizabeth I
    Queen of England and Ireland (1533 - 1603)
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  • Cass Sunstein Antonin Scalia was witty, warm, funny, and full of life. He was not only one of the most important justices in the nation's history; he was also among the greatest.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • James Thurber Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • William Shakespeare Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affection, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Albert Schweitzer 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.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • Antoine Rivarol Generally speaking, there is more wit than talent in the world. Society swarms with witty people who lack talent.
    Antoine Rivarol
    French journalist (1753 - 1801)
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  • Francis Bacon Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • David Bailey I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I liked.
    David Bailey
    English fashion and portrait (1938 - )
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Honoré de Balzac It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
    Honoré de Balzac
    French writer (1799 - 1850)
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  • Caroline Dhavernas It's very witty and it's great to see teenage characters have control that way. And you can actually hear about sex and pot and it's okay, it's not completely bad and you can't say that to teenagers.
    Caroline Dhavernas
    Canadian actress (1978 - )
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  • Francis Bacon 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.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Aristotle Melancholy men are of all others the most witty.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Bipasha Basu My philosophy towards life is to enjoy it to the fullest and have fun. I am one of those 'laugh-out-loud' kinds. I am quirky, yet witty.
    Bipasha Basu
    Indian film actress and model (1979 - )
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