Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nora Roberts

Love without trust? It's not love at all.

[Agatha Christie] is fond of quoting the witty wife who once said, 'an archaeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. Christie's husband, Max Mallowan, was an archaeologist.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.

Randy Pausch

There's a limit to how many times you can read how great you are and what an inspiration you are, but I'm not there yet.

Oscar Wilde

If you want to be witty, say what you think at all times

Oscar Wilde

I know not whether Laws be right, Or whether Laws be wrong; All that we know who be in jail Is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, A year whose days are long.

Oscar Wilde

One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing.

Madonna Ciccone

For me, a male image that I'm really moved by is somewhere between of Oscar Wilde type of a male: the fop, the long hair, the suits, too witty for his own good, incredibly smart, scathingly funny - all that. But then my other ideal is more like the Buddhist monk - the shaved head, actually someone who sublimates their sexuality.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

The biggest defeat in every department of life is to forget, especially the things that have done you in, and to die without realizing how far people can go in the way of crumminess. When the grave lies open before us, let’s not try to be witty, but on the other hand, let’s not forget, but make it our business to record the worst of the human viciousness we’ve seen without changing one word. When that’s done, we can curl up our toes and sink into the pit. That’s work enough for a lifetime.

Michael Cunningham

a certain bohemian, good-witch sort of charm

Michel de Montaigne

For table-talk, I prefer the pleasant and witty before the learned and the grave; in bed, beauty before goodness.

Mason Cooley

If folly disappeared, wit would starve.

Mason Cooley

In comedy, the witty style wins out over every mishap of the plot.

Mason Cooley

Wit saves us from being swallowed whole by life.

Mason Cooley

My father liked to moralize, and so do I. But he was in earnest, while I am embarrassed and pretend that I am merely being witty.

Teri Garr

If there's ever a woman who's smart, funny, or witty, people are afraid of that, so they don't write that. They only write parts for women where they let everything be steamrolled over them, where they let people wipe their feet all over them.

Teri Hatcher

Tired people aren't witty

Norbert Wiener

The best material model of a cat is another, or preferably the same, cat.

Noel Coward

Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade.

Miguel de Cervantes

Facts are the enemy of truth.

Miguel de Cervantes

A father may have a child who is ugly and lacking in all the graces, and the love he feels for him puts a blindfold over his eyes so that he does not see his defects but considers them signs of charm and intelligence and recounts them to his friends as if they were clever and witty.

Miguel de Cervantes

Poesy is a beauteous damsel, chaste, honourable, discreet, witty, retired, and who keeps herself within the limits of propriety. She is a friend of solitude; fountains entertain her, meadows console her, woods free her from ennui, flowers delight her; in short, she gives pleasure and instruction to all with whom she communicates.

Miguel de Cervantes

Wit and humor belong to genius alone.

Theodore Kaczynski

My occupation now, I suppose, is jail inmate.

Margaret Mead

Dear Math, please grow up and solve your own problems. I'm tired of solving them for you. Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.

Michael Bennet

I think about Aaron Rodgers, he's like Chris Evans before he got the HGH injection in Captain America. But before he was super smart and was still witty and stuff. That's how I see Tom Brady.

Melissa Marr

What would I do without you?" "You'll never find out.

Patrick Rothfuss

Now it's virtually impossible to write a game that successfully provides challenge and frustration, and that's a shame. We are going to lose something that makes scientists, that makes doers, that makes hard-minded, witty, clever people, and I worry that those people aren't being made these days.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

It is a curious fact, but a fact it is, that your witty people are the most hard-hearted in the world. The truth is, fancy destroys feeling. The quick eye to the ridiculous turns every thing to the absurd side; and the neat sentence, the lively allusion, and the odd simile, invest what they touch with something of their own buoyant nature. Humor is of the heart, and has its tears; but wit is of the head, and has only smiles - and the majority of those are bitter.

Leigh Hunt

Wit is the clash and reconcilement of incongruities; the meeting of extremes round a corner.

Pablo Picasso

Give me a museum and I'll fill it.

Pablo Picasso

I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.

Oscar Wilde

Women, as some witty Frenchman once put it, inspire us with the desire to do masterpieces and always prevent us from carrying them out.