Famous Quotes & Sayings

Giacomo Casanova

Beauty without wit offers nothing but the enjoyment of its material charms, whilst witty ugliness captivates by the charms of the mind, and at last fulfils all the desires of the man it has captivated.

Glenn Close

Just play the moment, that's the fun of it. You just play the moment. It's great writing and very clever writing, I think it's witty. And I have those great clothes. You have a great, witty, intelligent script and you look like a million dollars, because we have a great costumer, and it's a pretty good place to begin.

Jim Butcher

Ack!" I said. Fearless master of the witty dialogue, that's me.

Jessi Klein

Being witty was the only side effect of being depressed that was working for me.

George Herbert

Laugh not too much; the witty man laughs least: For wit is news only to ignorance. Lesse at thine own things laugh; lest in the jest Thy person share, and the conceit advance.

Moliere

The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.

Kris Carr

I am so frickin' cool and delicious and pretty and witty and sharp! I love every inch of me! Who wouldn't?

Kim Harrison

Dead Witch Walking is basically a modern-day witch living in Cincinnati.

Margaret Atwood

Sons branch out, but one woman leads to another.

Margaret Thatcher

Most women defend themselves. It is the female of the species-it is the tigress and lioness in you which tends to defend when attacked.

Mark Twain

The humorous story is American, the comic story is English, the witty story is French. The humorous story depends for its effect upon the manner of the telling;the comic and the witty story upon the matter.

Mark Twain

Men write many fine and plausible arguments in support of monarchy, but the fact remains that where every man has a voice, brutal laws are impossible

It was very well lit. We have a lot of witnesses and there's the surveillance camera.

They say, 'we're within the treaty, we're within our rights'.

There is now a shortlist and we should make an appointment within the week.

Georgette Heyer

Spread the glad tidings that it will not disappoint Miss Heyer's many admirers. Judging from the letters I've received from obviously feeble-minded persons who do so wish I would write another These Old Shades, it ought to sell like hot cakes. I think myself I ought to be shot for writing such nonsense, but it's questionably good escapist literature and I think I should rather like it if I were sitting in an air-raid shelter, or recovering from flu. Its period detail is good; my husband says it's witty---and without going to these lengths, I will say that it is very good fun.

Henry David Thoreau

Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.

Henry David Thoreau

How often, when we have been nearest each other bodily, have we really been farthest off! Our tongues were the witty foils with which we fenced each other off.

H. L. Mencken

Criticism is prejudice made plausible.

James Freeman Clarke

A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.

J. R. R. Tolkien

We must do without hope.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

What is perfectly true is perfectly witty.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.

Ian Fleming

Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.

Ian Fleming

I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.

Horace Greeley

You may be witty, but not satirical.

Esha Gupta

I like my man to be witty; he needs a sense of humour and needs to be extremely well-mannered.

Ernest Hemingway

I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.

...whatever other qualities Jews may posses, likable or the reverse, no one who knows them well can deny that they are personally interesting. By that I mean, specially alive, alert, quick at comprehending people or events and at making pungent or witty comments on them... One might at times find the rather hothouse family atmosphere, with it intensities and frictions, somewhat trying, but one could be sure of never being bored.

Fionnula Flanagan

I think Irish women are strong as horses, incredibly loyal and for the most part, funny, witty, bright and optimistic in the face of devastating reality.

Henry Miller

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

Jim Burke

You can't have success without trust... especially in businesses that deal with the public.

Christopher Hitchens

Never ask while you are doing it if what you are doing is fun. Don't introduce even your most reliably witty acquaintance as someone who will set the table on a roar.