Quotes About Dry Wit

#1. I like a very dry wit, not the big kind of humor like Robin Williams. I don't think I'm capable of that.

Chris Cooper

#2. Americans just don't understand dry wit.

John Oliver

#3. Kiara shook her head at his dry wit that he delivered in a perfect deadpan monotone. He was strangely entertaining in a lethal, 'I'll rip out your heat and eat it' kind of way.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#4. Life deprived of beauty is not worthy of being called human.

Luis Barragan

#5. He had three
incision sites: one where the microscopic camera had gone in and
two where they'd done the actual work, and the abuse he'd taken
today went straight to her heart. "Oh, Pace."
"I'm guessing that wasn't an 'Oh, Pace, you're so sexy, take me.'

Jill Shalvis

#6. The thoughts which the word "God" suggests to the human mind are susceptible of as many variations as human minds themselves.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#7. See, you're out your mind tryin' to face tha God.
Your rhyme is like an empty prison ... a waste of bars.

Lord Finesse

#8. Workplace culture is the heartbeat of an organization, and either yields energy and motivates people to pursue greatness or sucks the inspiration out of employees and slowly brings a business to a grinding halt.

Kevin E. Phillips

#9. His father was an ass and he is an ass. I imagine sooner than I should like I shall be playing uncle to a litter of asses.

T.A. Miles

#10. The argument of the broken window pane is the most valuable argument in modern politics.

Emmeline Pankhurst

#11. Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is dry bones.

Ray Bradbury

#12. It avoids a self-conscious relationship to the act. We live in the most self-conscious society in the history of mankind. There are good things in that, but there are also terrible things. The worst of it is, that we find it hard to give ourselves to the cultural process.

Larry Harvey

#13. Searching for happiness prevents us from ever finding it.

Pema Chodron

#14. A fantasy is nothing more than a dream you were too scared to chase.

Shannon L. Alder

#15. Stretch a hand to one unfriended And thy loneliness is ended.

William Arthur Dunkerley

#16. And fetch some straw.
We'll put it between us and the ground. No reason we shouldn't sleep soft tonight."
"Straw. I love luxury.

Joanna Bourne

#17. Conservatism is the cousin of cowardice.

J.R. Ward

#18. He knew what he could certainly do, and what he might do if he was lucky, and what he couldn't do barring a miracle.

Larry McMurtry

#19. One of my first paid gigs was writing psychology quizzes for 'YM,' a monthly teen magazine like 'Seventeen.'

K.A. Applegate

#20. I don't want to name names, but the least I can say about rock and roll is that I'm suspicious.

Manuel Puig

#21. I am too poor to bow.

Charles De Gaulle

#22. Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing belly? Is not your voice broken, your wind short, your chin double, your wit single, and every part about you blasted with antiquity?

William Shakespeare

#23. But it appeared that the motivation for the project was a newspaper article titled 'Research Proves Kids Need a Mom and a Dad.' Someone had written the word 'crap' in red beside the article. It was an excellent start. Scientists need to cultivate a suspicious attitude to research.

Graeme Simsion