Quotes About Quips

#1. Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful Jollity, Quips, and Cranks, and wanton Wiles, Nods, and Becks, and wreathed Smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides.

John Milton

#2. Right at the core, the mainstream has it backwards. Warren Buffett often quips that the first rule of investing is to not lose money, and the second rule is to not forget the first rule. Yet few investors approach the world with such a strict standard of risk avoidance.

Seth Klarman

#3. I'm slightly obsessed with drag queens and performers. Their quips and their one-liners, their style, their singing ... I find it fascinating. And thoroughly entertaining. I'd love to play one.

Russell Tovey

#4. And another regrettable thing about death is the ceasing of your own brand of magic, which took a whole life to develop and market - the quips, the witticisms, the slant adjusted to a few, those loved ones nearest the lip of the stage . . . - JOHN UPDIKE, "Perfection Wasted

Carole Radziwill

#5. I have a lot of very close girlfriends and sisters - I'm from an all female family. My father often quips that even the cat was neutered!

Shirley Manson

#6. Ser Jaime?" Even in soiled pink satin and torn lace, Brienne looked more like a man in a gown than a proper woman."I am grateful, but ... you were well away. Why come back?"
A dozen quips came to mind, each crueler than the one before, but Jaime only shrugged. "I dreamed of you," he said.

George R R Martin

#7. Zack looks at Jenna and slowly pulls off his sunglasses. "Why, hello, beautiful," he says. "I'm Zack." He shows off his dimples. "And you are ... ?"
"Not going to sleep with you," Jenna quips, grinning right back at him.
His smile widens. "Well played.

Chelsea Fine

#8. Ralph Keyes calls quotation collectors "quotographers," the men and women who gather catchwords, watchwords, war words, winged words, maxims, mottos, sayings, and quips into books of a thousand pages. Through the centuries quotation collectors have saved quotations that would otherwise be lost.

Willis Regier

#9. In France everything is a matter for jest. People make quips about the scaffold, about Napoleon's defeat on the banks of The Beresina, and about the barricades of our revolutions. So, at the assizes of the Last Judgment, there will always be a Frenchmen to crack a joke.

Honore De Balzac

#10. One of my most often repeated quips was the one I made when former Presidents Carter, Ford and Nixon stood by each other at a White House event. 'There they are,' I said. 'See no evil, hear no evil, and ... evil.'

Bob Dole

#11. Radical transparency has an enormous impact on our personal lives. We can no longer share thoughts, quips, photos or personal opinions anywhere on the web without being mindful that they may turn up where we least expect it (notably job interviews, divorce proceedings or public media).

Simon Mainwaring

#12. Ya writin' a book? Hey great. Need some help? Want some of my quips? Hey, we could do it together. We'd quip 'em to death. Give 'em quiplash hee hee hee.

Ken Dryden

#13. For me, Twitter works best as a way of taking pictures of being stuck in traffic on the Brooklyn Bridge. If people really want to read really funny quips about life, parenting, and pop culture, then by all means read Michael Ian Black's tweets.

Michael Showalter

#14. All the quips in the world couldn't prevent Oscar Wilde from becoming a lovesick fool.

David Levithan

#15. Leonidas's and Dienekes' quips draw the individual out of his private terror and yoke him to the group.

Steven Pressfield

#16. Effortlessly, the man sowed the idea of sex with his quips, the smiles, and something as innocent as their legs brushing against one another.

Melissa Blue

#17. I like quips. I like whiffs of cynicism and I think they can be witty. But I don't really know where wittiness is constructive.

Matthew McConaughey

#18. Ser Jaime ... I am grateful, but ... you were well away. Why come back?" A dozen quips came to mind, each crueler than the one before, but Jaime only shrugged. "I dreamed of you

George R R Martin

#19. Advertising is to a genuine article what manure is to land, - it largely increases the product.

P.T. Barnum

#20. The man of upright life is obeyed before he speaks.

Confucius

#21. Grab somebody sexy, tell the hey!

Ne-Yo

#22. My worst character flaw that I'm conscious of is that I tend to think my way into circles instead of resolving anything. It's paralyzing and boring for people around me.

David Foster Wallace

#23. The princess snorted. "If you haven't figured out by now that I don't care what you think of me, let this be the lesson that sticks.

C.J. Redwine

#24. The Holy Spirit puts ideas into the heart of the believer

Sunday Adelaja

#25. Uncertainty! fell demon of our fears! The human soul that can support despair, supports not thee.

David Mallet

#26. If you get stuck to the committed path then ... this wall has to be.. KNOCKED DOWN!!

Yoshiki Nakamura

#27. We bless and curse ourselves.

Henry David Thoreau

#28. Love which economizes is never true love.

Honore De Balzac

#29. Asking questions about why I don't want kids is really none of your business, but at least it's a dialogue.

Jen Kirkman

#30. On a wing and a prayer. (After being asked how the angels make love in Milton's Paradise Lost).

Benjamin R. Smith

#31. Sin is a powerful dictator; it can overthrow even the most righteous.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#32. A stand-up comic is judged by every line. Singers get applause at the end of their song no matter how bad they are.

Phyllis Diller

#33. No," said Hermione shortly. "Have either of you seen my copy of Numerology and Gramatica?"
"Oh, yeah, I borrowed it for a bit of bedtime reading," said Ron, but very quietly.

J.K. Rowling

#34. Critical Thinking narrows and creative thinking expands, but they must work in tandem for problem solving and decision making.

Pearl Zhu

#35. Come back. Even as a shadow, even as a dream.

Euripides

#36. I'm a lot smarter and thoughtful of a comedian. This market is different than it was. You don't have to have cable to hear this comedy. It comes on a basic channel, and that's one of the biggest differences between now than when I first started.

Joe Torry

#37. Danger is the snack food of a true sleuth.

Mac Barnett

#38. I am very sad that some designers are still using real fur when the fake alternatives are so effective and so easily obtainable.

Twiggy