Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Selden

Women ought not to know their own wit, because they will still be showing it, and so spoil it.

Moses Hadas

This book fills a much-needed gap.

Moses Hadas

Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it.

Moses Hadas

I have read your book and much like it.

[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.

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.

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.

Oscar Wilde

Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.

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.

Michel de Montaigne

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

But because of his intelligence, his wit and his insightfulness and his kind of all-consuming warmth, that would go away.

Jerry Seinfeld

I am so busy doing nothing... that the idea of doing anything - which as you know, always leads to something - cuts into the nothing and then forces me to have to drop everything.

Jerry Seinfeld

Responsible, who wants to be responsible? Whenever something bad happens, it's always, who's responsible for this?

Jim Gaffigan

It's so obvious The Weather Channel is pro hurricane. Fair and balanced my ass.

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.

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.

Faye Wattleton

Until the day arrives when all women decide that our rights are not negotiable, our future choices will not be secure.

Francis Bacon

Lukewarm persons think they may accommodate points of religion by middle ways and witty reconcilements,--as if they would make an arbitrament between God and man.

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.

Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

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.

Fran Lebowitz

To put it rather bluntly, I am not the type who wants to go back to the land; I am the type who wants to go back to the hotel.

George Orwell

Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

Chris Pine

My brain's not sharp enough to come up with a witty comment.