Famous Quotes & Sayings

Georg C. Lichtenberg

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

Nobody thanks a witty man for politeness when he puts himself on a par with a society in which it would not be polite to show one's wit.

Ayn Rand

Government 'help' to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.

William Shakespeare

Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.

Typically within two weeks, we're done with the analysis.

A. J. Liebling

I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.

Adrienne Rich

I feel more helpless with you than without you.

William Butler Yeats

Who stole your wits awayAnd where are they gone?

Danai Gurira

Zimbabweans are so smart and witty and able to weave together tons of situations and experiences into terminologies that are just utterly original.

David Karp

Today there are millions of people making stuff and putting it into the world: that's become part of our identity and it shouldn't be limited to people who fancy themselves writers, or who are particularly witty or talented.

Dan Quayle

I stand by all the misstatements that I've made

Dan Quayle

The global importance of the Middle East is that it keeps the Far East and the Near East from encroaching on each other.

Dan Quayle

One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice-president, and that one word is 'to be prepared'.

Cyrano de Bergerac

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

Colin Quinn

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

Richard M. Nixon

I would have made a good pope.

We work within the system. I don't want to say we're rebellious.

William Shakespeare

Muster your wits; stand in your own defence...

William Shakespeare

I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.

Karen Abbott

She [Gypsy Rose Lee] was a sophisticated self-satirist with a contagious delight in the comedy of sex. She was coy; she was sly; she always had a witty quip; she had an intensely dramatic presence.