Witty Quotes

Your wit makes others witty.

Many a witty inspiration is like the surprising reunion of befriended thoughts after a long separation.

The characters can't be wittier than people are in real life. They have to be character witty.

I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things: disease and death... I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals.

I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I liked.

A large nose is the mark of a witty, courteous, affable, generous and liberal man.

Though lust do masque in ne'er so strange disguise she's oft found witty, but is never wise.

Generally speaking, there is more wit than talent in the world. Society swarms with witty people who lack talent.

A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.

As soon as she gets her divorce one of us is going to marry her. We don't know which. She is about as beautiful a woman as I ever saw, and very witty and well-informed, but it would cost a good deal to keep her in diamonds.

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.

One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.

I mean, I do love clever and witty, but I think that the 'Three Stooges' were geniuses. They'd have to be for their appeal to have lasted this long.

To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.

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.

People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.

There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature.

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.

This is one of his most human and most amusing and witty novels. The characters are very Indian. I decided that I wanted to do a comedy, so this was just the right one.

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.

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.

They sit there in committees day after day, And they each put in a color and it comes out gray. And we all have heard the saying, which is true as well as witty, That a camel is a horse that was designed by a committee.

Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.

I get the impression the English kings were witty, for some reason. I feel like all you had was your wit.

A large nose is in fact the sign of an affable man, good, courteous, witty, liberal, courageous, such as I am.

Nothing is more witty and grotesque than ancient mythology and Christianity; that is because they are so mystical.

Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.

Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.

In fact, to gull a fool seems to me an exploit worthy of a witty man.