Quotes About Witty

New Year's resolution: To refrain from saying witty, unkind things, unless they are really witty and irreparably damaging.

Your wits make others witty.

My commentary's hilarious, not witty.

Talking to oneself, I have often thought, is the best way to be sure of intelligent and witty conversation.

Go, write it in a martial hand; be curst and brief; it is no matter how witty, so it be eloquent and fun of invention: taunt him with the licence of ink: if thou thou'st him some thrice, it shall not be amiss; and as many lies as will lie in thy shee.

The great joke is that a realist is an optimistic pessimist. That's very witty. Whether it's truthful or not, that I don't know.

It's late, I'm tired, and your cigarettes are giving me a headache," I growled. "I suppose that's fair." He drew in on the cigarette and let out the smoke. "Some women think they make me look sexy." "I think you smoke them so you have something to do while thinking up your next witty line." He choked on the smoke, caught between inhaling and laughing. "Rose Hathaway, I can't wait to see you again. If you're this charming while tired and annoyed and this gorgeous while bruised and in ski clothes, you must be devastating at your peak.

Pickup lines never work...I think someone clever, witty and funny is very attractive.

There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature - the malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick.

Well, remember what you said, because in a day or two, I'll have a witty and blistering retort! You'll be devastated THEN

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

My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony.

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

A witty quote proves nothing.

Dr. Seuss provided "ingenious and uniquely witty solutions to the standing problem of the juvenile fantasy writer: how to find, not another Alice, but another rabbit hole.

A witty writer is like a porcupine; his quill makes no distinction between friend and foe.

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

I wouldn't even dare read the Torah, let alone attempt a witty observation on the Torah.

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

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

It's not fundamentally different to any other genre, that action is a particular thing. Being able to do action sounds like it should be straightforward, but it really isn't. I always want the action to be witty. I don't want it to be merely routine.

I have never been able to understand the complaint that a story is "depressing" because of its subject matter. What depresses me are stories that don't seem to know these things go on, or hide them in resolute chipperness; "witty stories," in which every problem is the occasion for a joke; "upbeat" stories that flog you with transcendence. Please. We're grown ups now.

I like a girl who's smart, they have to be able to grasp witty sarcasm.

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.

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

I looked at Bria. “How do you put up with him?” Bria started to open her mouth, but Finn piped up instead. “She puts up with me because I happen to be rich, handsome, charming, a witty conversationalist, and exceptionally talented in bed,” he smirked. “Flexible too.” I groaned. “I did not need to hear those last two.

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

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

I declare, on my soul and conscience, that the attainment of power, or of a great name in literature, seemed to me an easier victory than a success with some young, witty, and gracious lady of high degree.

Elgar is not manic enough to be Russian, not witty or pointilliste enough to be French, not harmonically simple enough to be Italian and not stodgy enough to be German. We arrive at his Englishry by pure elimination.

I'm trying to think of a witty comeback, when Boggs says brusquely, “Well, don't expect us to be too impressed. We just saw Finnick Odair in his underwear.” I decide to go ahead and like Boggs.

When all by myself, I can think of all kinds of clever remarks, quick comebacks to what no one said, and flashes of witty sociability with nobody. But all of this vanishes when I face someone in the flesh: I lose my intelligence, I can no longer speak, and after half an hour I just feel tired. Talking to people makes me feel like sleeping. Only my ghostly and imaginary friends, only the conversations I have in my dreams, are genuinely real and substantial.