Witty Quotes

A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.

A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual shortcomings.

Witty inspirations are the proverbs of the educated.

My mother was a terrific force in my life. Wartime-generation woman, hadn't gone to university but should have done. Was very funny, very verbal, very clever, very witty.

Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

The chance to be seen as a warm, witty guy is too good an opportunity for a politician to miss.

I fear nothing so much as a man who is witty all day long.

No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech.

A witty saying proves nothing.

There is an element of seduction in shoes that doesn't exist for men. A woman can be sexy, charming, witty or shy with her shoes.

Conquered people tend to be witty.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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