Top 23 Wittily Quotes
#1. The president's claim that Social Security is going broke is misleading at best. The sky is not falling, although there is no doubt that the system needs to be strengthened.
Grace Napolitano
#2. My father's grandparents came from Norway and settled in the Scandinavian bastion of Minnesota. As a little girl in Tempe, Arizona, I daydreamed about picking cloudberries by a fjord in a fresh Nordic wind.
Kate Christensen
#3. Religion makes them crazy. Not a woman I ever met wasn't crazy with religion.
Orson Scott Card
#5. It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions; they have their place in heaven also.
Robert Southey
#6. Well, if only I wasn't too much the gentleman to flay your spirit with a witty and cutting retort, madam, you'd be ... thoroughly ... um, wittily retorted at this very instant. - Locke Lamora
Scott Lynch
#7. When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn't know.
"Oh, sure you know," the photographer said.
"She wants," said Jay Cee wittily, "to be everything.
Sylvia Plath
#9. He's an avant-gardener whose great work includes the famous minimalist garden at Kew which was just a daisy and three wittily arranged grass stems.
Ben Moor
#10. Our pleasures in this world are always to be paid for.
Jane Austen
#11. We've played with a lot of confidence and that's been the key so far. Hopefully, we can take more confidence into the playoffs.
Teemu Selanne
#12. Theodore Dalrymple is a brilliant observer of both medicine and society, and his book wittily engages with two versions of the current nonsense: orthodox medicine on drug addiction, and romantic poets on the wisdom you supposedly enjoy from getting high.
Kenneth Minogue
#13. All coffee shops now have WiFi. Why bring a book when you could be wittily attacking some idiot columnist on Twitter, or responding to your date requests, or posting a picture of your foot? All of that is more gripping and immediate and social than books.
Russell Smith
#14. It's disappointing to have lost - that's the bee's knees of it ...
Tim Henman
#15. Epaminondas is reported wittily to have said of a good man that died about the time of the battle of Leuctra, How came he to have so much leisure as to die, when there was so much stirring?
Plutarch
#16. The life of an honest man must be a perpetual infidelity.
Charles Peguy
#17. In former days, when there were Whigs instead of Liberals, it was almost a rule of political life that all leading Whigs sould be uncles, brothers-in-law, or cousins to each other. This was pleasant and gave great consistency to the party; but the system has now gone out of vogue.
Anthony Trollope
#19. Karl Barth once wittily remarked, One can not speak of God simply by speaking of man in a loud voice.
Sinclair B. Ferguson
#20. The wizard stirs, opens his eyes, and looks at the reluctant boy. "Oh, you'll get your heart broken," he says. "Is that what you're waiting to hear? It'll be broken, all right. But you'll never get anything done if you walk around with an unchipped heart. That's the way of it, boy.
Peter Straub
#21. Dr. Holmes says, both wittily and truly, that crying widows are easiest consoled.
Josh Billings
#23. God made the angels to show Him splendor, as He made animals for innocence and plants for their simplicity. But Man He made to serve Him wittily, in the tangle of his mind.
Thomas More