Witty Quotes

Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.

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

In fact, to gull a fool seems to me an exploit worthy of a witty man.

Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.

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

The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners.

Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.

You are wise, witty and wonderful, but you spend too much time reading this sort of stuff.

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

I'm hopefully touring with Colin Baker next year in Perfect Strangers. I have performed with Sylvia Simms in poetry and music evenings. I would love to do those for the rest of my career - they are so fun and witty.

You can pretend to be serious; but you can't pretend to be witty.

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.