Top 62 Quotes About Witty Wit: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Witty Wit

#1. They are fond of fun and therefore witty, wit being well-bred insolence.

#2. A funny person is funny only for so long, but a wit can sit down and go on being spellbinding forever. One is not meant to laugh. One stays quiet and marvels. Spontaneously witty talk is without question the most fascinating entertainment there is.

Diana Vreeland

#3. Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.

James Thurber

#4. The wittiest authors raise the very slightest of smiles.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#5. Every habit makes our hand more witty, and out wit more handy.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#6. Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit.

William Shakespeare

#7. You are lovely, brilliant, witty ... the incredible words which would relieve her of any need to repay him or refuse his gifts; loveliness and wit were priced higher than any gift he offered, while if a girl were loved, even old women of hard experience would admit her right to take and never give.

Graham Greene

#8. My wit is only as stupid as the audience.

Aleksandra Ninkovic

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

Christian Nestell Bovee

#10. Ack! I said.
Fearless master of the witty dialogue, that's me.

Jim Butcher

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

Fernando Pessoa

#12. The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to be able to quote another's wit.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#13. Money, Gun and Lie can solve almost all the problems.

Amit Kalantri

#14. I wonder now how we got by when you weren't here."
"I have no doubt the devastation was widespread, the suffering universal."
"Indeed, it was the Dark Ages in the annals of Mrs. Dawlish's house. Ignorance was thick on the ground, and unenlkghtenment befogged all the windows.

Sherry Thomas

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

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#16. All women may not be beautiful but every woman can look beautiful.

Amit Kalantri

#17. Who can prove Wit to be witty when with deeper ground Dulness intuitive declares wit dull?

George Eliot

#18. Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no fibs.

Oliver Goldsmith

#19. Wit in women is a jewel, which, unlike all others, borrows lustre from its setting, rather than bestows it; since nothing is so easy as to fancy a very beautiful woman extremely witty.

Charles Caleb Colton

#20. Foolish minds will entertain you, but confuse minds will irritate you.

Amit Kalantri

#21. Your wits make others witty.

Catherine The Great

#22. When I need some striking inspiration about deep depression for my new painting, I just need to go to check my bank account ...

Hiroko Sakai

#23. 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

#24. Well, enough of this introspection. It's depressing, quite frankly.

Sol Luckman

#25. You know, you're rather amusingly wrong.

Terry Pratchett

#26. Does drinking make you wittier? One might as well ask if witting makes you drinkier, which it may.

Benjamin Errett

#27. Life is meaning less when you realized that you are about to die. Till then, everything negative however trifle they may be, depress you.

Ankur Basu Roy

#28. Laugh not too much; the witty man laughs least: For wit is news only to ignorance. Lesse at thine own things laugh; lest in the jest Thy person share, and the conceit advance.

George Herbert

#29. Nobody thanks a witty man for politeness when he puts himself on a par with a society in which it would not be polite to show one's wit.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#30. He wasn't aware of it but when he smiled he looked like an amiable bear. When he didn't smile he didn't look amiable

Emma Goldrick

#31. (About a cookbook ... )
- What about this one? Maids of Honor?
- Weeelll, they starts OUT as Maids of Honor ... but they ends up Tarts.

Terry Pratchett

#32. 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

#33. He is not an ideal husband. I am his wife.

Ljupka Cvetanova

#34. What is perfectly true is perfectly witty.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#35. Deep down, he's shallow.

Peter De Vries

#36. There are some men who are witty when they are in a bad humor, and others only when they are sad.

Joseph Joubert

#37. Never ask while you are doing it if what you are doing is fun. Don't introduce even your most reliably witty acquaintance as someone who will set the table on a roar.

Christopher Hitchens

#38. 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.

Florence King

#39. Half is better than none unless it be of a wit.

Susan Lendroth

#40. Nothing evokes the prurient like puritanism.

Christopher Moore

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

Antoine Rivarol

#42. Jason smiled and took a sip of his coke before responding. I'm not sure how to reply to that. I thought about just giving you a nasty look. But I see you already have one.

Mark A. Cooper

#43. Nobody ever goes to that store to shop because it's too crowded.

Sol Luckman

#44. The important thing to remember is not to forget

Benny Bellamacina

#45. When someone gives you advice, just ask them to give it in writing and they will either keep mum or will run from there.

Amit Kalantri

#46. Spanish - how shall I say this? - is like
Portuguese spoken with a speech impediment.

Sol Luckman

#47. Your wit makes others witty.

Catherine The Great

#48. I was going to write a sharp witty email full of devastating one-liners but I suspect you want something nicer than that

Lucy Robinson

#49. I get the impression the English kings were witty, for some reason. I feel like all you had was your wit.

Colin Quinn

#50. When I battle wits with Jarod Kintz I always feel like I need to take my brain out to give him a transplant. Bad part is we don't have any.

Will Advise

#51. Il ne faut point donner d'esprit a' ses personnages; mais savoir les placer dans des circonstances qui leur en donnent. You should not give wit to your characters, but know instead how to put them in situations which will make them witty.

Denis Diderot

#52. The really witty man does not shower forth his wit so indiscriminately;

Cecil B. Hartley

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

Amit Kalantri

#54. Sometimes advises from others are more difficult to bear with than even slang.

Amit Kalantri

#55. Gankis lifted an arm to point at the distant shale cliffs. "And in the face of it there were thousands of little holes, little what-you-call-'ems ... "
"Alcoves," Kennit supplied in an almost dreamy voice. "I call them alcoves, Gankis. As would you, if you could speak your own mother tongue.

Robin Hobb

#56. For such is the nature of man, 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: For they see their own wit at hand, and other mens at a distance.

Thomas Hobbes

#57. Beauty without wit offers nothing but the enjoyment of its material charms, whilst witty ugliness captivates by the charms of the mind, and at last fulfils all the desires of the man it has captivated.

Giacomo Casanova