Quotes About Witty People

#1. 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.

Emma Thompson

#2. If there's ever a woman who's smart, funny, or witty, people are afraid of that, so they don't write that. They only write parts for women where they let everything be steamrolled over them, where they let people wipe their feet all over them.

Teri Garr

#3. I like witty people, people who can be witty on the spot.

Rob Brydon

#4. Witty people came out in autumn; beauties in July.

Andrew Holleran

#5. But if your story is about the inner workings of competitive quilting, you'd better make it short and extra witty. People drift off when you stop talking about stuff that isn't, well, them. The

Scott Adams

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

Antoine Rivarol

#7. Some people have no idea what they're doing, and a lot of them are really good at it.

George Carlin

#8. As the nicknames get shorter, people come closer.

Mita Jain

#9. People who have what they want are very fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they don't want it.

Ogden Nash

#10. I love making friends ... it's people I can't stand.

Linus Torvalds

#11. It almost takes people by surprise when I'm not a big talker. Because I'm known as being sort of a loud mouth. I have a lot to say. But I try to be more thoughtful with my comments or reactions, unless it's something witty or hysterical that I just can't keep myself from blurting or tweeting!

Natalie Maines

#12. My wife and I both made a list of 5 people we could sleep with ... she read hers out and there were no surprises ... 1 George Clooney ... 2 Brad Pitt etc ... I thought 'Ive got the better deal here' ... 1 Your sister

Michael McIntyre

#13. My goal was becoming the next David Copperfield. I learned how to be a performer by emulating him as a kid - his formula of just talking to people onstage, being free to improvise, being charming and witty with a crowd, together with great, beautiful magic.

Michael Carbonaro

#14. People who live in an age of corruption are witty and slanderous; they know that there are other kinds of murder than by dagger or assault; they also know that whatever is well said is believed ...

Friedrich Nietzsche

#15. When I think of Cool Britannia I think of old people dying of hypothermia.

Tony Benn

#16. I don't think there's any harm at all in allowing a kid to fantasize. In fact, I think to stop people from fantasizing is a very destructive thing indeed.

J.K. Rowling

#17. Television has an awful lot to do with the Kennedy mystique and the fact that he's frozen in people's minds at the age of 46, and he was handsome and personable and witty and charming.

Robert Dallek

#18. There's no greater proof of an impoverished mind than its inability to be witty except at other people's expense.

Fernando Pessoa

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

George Eliot

#20. Today there are millions of people making stuff and putting it into the world: that's become part of our identity and it shouldn't be limited to people who fancy themselves writers, or who are particularly witty or talented.

David Karp

#21. Now it's virtually impossible to write a game that successfully provides challenge and frustration, and that's a shame. We are going to lose something that makes scientists, that makes doers, that makes hard-minded, witty, clever people, and I worry that those people aren't being made these days.

Patrick Rothfuss

#22. The solution, she advises, is, "when you meet a woman who is intimidatingly witty, stylish, beautiful, and professionally accomplished, befriend her. Surrounding yourself with the best people doesn't make you look worse by comparison. It makes you look better." Marital

Rebecca Traister

#23. I always say that I only wish to have three sorts of people as my friends, those who are very rich, those who are very witty, and those who are very beautiful.

Christopher Isherwood

#24. In order for three people to keep a secret, two must be dead.

Benjamin Franklin

#25. The problem is you make the tricks look good. You are a brilliant acrobat, and a witty comedian. You are skillful. People want a fool to be foolish
trip on banana peels and grin and spout nonsense. These men want fools to make them feel better about themselves, not to remind them what they lack.

Kelli Swofford Nielsen

#26. Conquered people tend to be witty.

Saul Bellow

#27. I'm shy. I am. I mean, if I get around, you know, in a room of a bunch of people especially I - you know, I don't know or - it takes me a while to warm up. I'm - and the real me, I'm not as witty as, you know, as the comic Wanda. The comic, she's had time to work on some things.

Wanda Sykes

#28. No one party can fool all of the people all of the time; that's why we have two parties

Bob Hope

#29. All my friends are funny, witty, fun-loving people. As are my parents, and the people I work with. I get at least a couple of good laughs in every day.

Toks Olagundoye

#30. Your brother Jaime keeps losing battles. He gave Sansa an angry look, as if it were her fault. He's been taken by the Starks and we've lost Riverrun and now her stupid brother is calling himself a king.
The dwarf smiled crookedly. All sorts of people are calling themselves kings these days.

George R R Martin

#31. Tired people aren't witty

Teri Hatcher

#32. Everyone remembers the pop-quiz hotshot bit from 'Speed' because it's extremely funny, and it's really smart and really witty. And the notion that action movies can have dialogue that pops just as well as the explosions is something that I hope more people continue to remember.

Graham Moore

#33. Some BuzzFeed articles are written by smart people who use complete sentences. Some of the disposable lists are witty and appear to have taken some effort to put together.

Alex Pareene

#34. Think of something clever, witty or profound, keep it short and people may quote you.

Bobby Darnell

#35. The army slew a thousand and showed little pity
The king ordered fealty from the conquered city
The prince charmed its people with words wise and witty
And the queen sat on a couch, looking very pretty

Shannon Hale

#36. I have been in several provinces. In some one-half of the people are fools, in others they are too cunning; in some they are weak and simple, in others they affect to be witty; in all, the principal occupation is love, the next is slander, and the third is talking nonsense.

Voltaire

#37. ONLY' having the Gift, people appreciate this madness as Art. Everybody wants to have Art in their lives, but no body wants to have what the Art came out from in their lives ...

Hiroko Sakai

#38. The real fact of the matter is that nobody reads ads. People read what interests them, and sometimes it's an ad.

Howard Gossage

#39. Whether I'm writing a novel about a guy mourning the death of his father or whether I'm writing a show about people killing each other, you want to hear characters speak and be funny and witty.

Jonathan Tropper

#40. Most people sitting at home aren't cool, successful, witty Hollywood stars, but they all worry about what people think of them when they faux pas.

Ricky Gervais

#41. The best thing about humour is that it shows people they are not alone.

Sid Caesar

#42. Dear Friends all, A thousand Christmas pleasures and blessings to you
good resolutions and bright hopes for the New Year! Amen. People who can't be witty exert themselves to be pious or affectionate.

George Eliot

#43. ( ... ) Trying to think of how to take the least crowded ways to class, so the least amount of people will stare at the hole in my neck. Sometimes it feels like it has a beacon in it, flashing for the entire world to see, except it's not cool like the Bat signal.

Keary Taylor

#44. I seem to get into situations that make people laugh, but I don't consider myself that funny of a person. I'm not witty. I'm kind of slow in conversations. I'm not that articulate with jokes. The first time I made stuff and screened it for an audience, I was surprised what people were laughing at.

Nathan Fielder

#45. The characters can't be wittier than people are in real life. They have to be character witty.

Dylan Moran

#46. How come if people keep telling me I'm so smart, I keep doing such stupid things?

George Watsky

#47. It used to be that people could be painfully boring in private. Facebook changed all that.

Andy Borowitz

#48. I'm going to photograph every single person to enter and leave this tattoo parlour."
Finbar rolled his eyes. "And they'll hate that, because people who get dragons drawn on their backs are normally so shy about other people noticing them.

Derek Landy

#49. I guess the only thing to do now is meet his parents. I'm sure they're decent people. I mean they gotta be if they named their son Gaylord Focker.

Robert De Niro

#50. Don't worry about it; only worry about how people like her breed.

Gasmaskman

#51. Quoting E. B. White is the easiest way I know of to fool people into thinking that I am perceptive, witty, and wise.

Peter Behrens

#52. I'd like to do music in the same way - in a witty way. People think of YG artists as rarely appearing on TV but I'd like to make Big Bang fans happy through various mediums.

Seungri

#53. Usually when people see me, they see me as more of the soft-spoken one rather than being the witty, smart-tongued character.

Amy Acker

#54. You should praise, criticize and flirt with people right to their face, only then it will make a difference.

Amit Kalantri

#55. A man can be whip smart and witty and caught up in the gale of life, chatting up roomfuls of people and making them laugh till their teeth damn near fall out, and at the same time, he can be the world's loneliest, most miserable creature.

Seth Grahame-Smith

#56. I love people; it's mankind I can't stand.

Charles M. Schulz

#57. Experience was something it was difficult to avoid, though many people had managed to keep it to a minimum.

Philip Jose Farmer

#58. I often feel I'm a disappointment to people because they expect me to be the guy in the books. When I sit next to someone at a dinner party I can see they expect me to be quick and witty, and I'm not at all.

Bill Bryson

#59. The ability to make witty observations is commonly refered to as "cynism" by people who lack it.

George Bernard Shaw

#60. Twitter has restored my faith in humanity. I thought I'd hate it, but while there are lots of knobheads, there are even more lovely people. It delights me how witty and friendly most people are.

John Simm

#61. Observe it, the vulgar often laugh, but never smile, whereas well-bred people often smile, and seldom or never laugh. A witty thing never excited laughter, it pleases only the mind and never distorts the countenance.

Lord Chesterfield

#62. I was so amazingly witty when I had the No. 1 movie, you have no idea. People laughed at every single one of my jokes. Then when I hadn't had a hit for three or four years, some of these same people pretended they didn't see me when I walked in the room.

Rebecca De Mornay

#63. I didn't like parties.I didn't know how to dance and people frightened me, especially people at parties. They attempted to be sexy and gay and witty and although they hoped they were good at it, they weren 't. They were bad at it. Their trying so hard only made it worse.

Charles Bukowski

#64. People, at least a few like me, have this weird tendency of running away from things when they are their own, and racing after them obsessively when they are gone.

Mita Jain

#65. A witty saying proves nothing, but saying something pointless gets people's attention.

Voltaire

#66. A witty and informative professor posits that more authors do not choose titles borrowed from Shakespeare's sonnets and plays for the reason some people claim not to have partners: "All the good ones are taken."

Thomas C. Foster

#67. Why don't you write books people can read?(to her husband James)

Nora Barnacle

#68. Nine times out of ten I've no idea what I'm saying and I'm only ever nice to people because I don't have the charisma or the knowledge or any of that to get away with witty put-downs,

Kate Griffin

#69. I frankly felt like the reception we received on the way in from the airport was very warm and hospitable. And I want to thank the Canadian people who came out to wave
with all five fingers
for their hospitality.

George W. Bush

#70. Abuse of any kind thrives off secrecy. I felt like if I started talking about it, maybe other people would. I wanted to break the silence. Now I feel I'm in a much better place emotionally than I've ever been anytime in my life.

Chris Witty