Witty Quotes
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It is one of the most hauntingly beautiful places in the world, the history is fascinating, the men are handsome and the whisky is delicious. But don't eat the macaroni pies.
Joanne Rowling
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Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.
William Shakespeare
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The middle class is doing fine in fiction. But it's not what gets me going. I love the working class, and everyone from it I've met, and think they're incredibly witty, inventive - there's a lot of poetry there.
Martin Amis
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Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
Francis Bacon
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I didn't even realize I was writing songs - I thought I was just being witty and sarcastic.
Halsey
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Old Madame du Deffand and her friends talked for fifty years without stopping. And of it all, what remains? Perhaps three witty sayings. So that we are at liberty to suppose either that nothing was said, or that nothing witty was said, or that the fraction of three witty sayings lasted eighteen thousand two hundred and fifty nights, which does not leave a liberal allowance of wit for any one of them.
Virginia Woolf
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I read the script [of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency] and went, "I haven't read anything this good, in a long time." I thought it was absolutely brilliant. The dialogue is so sparkling, smart and witty. You also have these insane, crazy characters, like energy sucking vampires and holistic assassins. It's all completely weird.
Samuel Barnett
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You are wise, witty and wonderful, but you spend too much time reading this sort of stuff.
Frank Crane
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The taxpayers are sending congressmen on expensive trips abroad. It might be worth it except they keep coming back
Will Rogers
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Who can proveWit to be witty when with deeper groundDulness intuitive declares wit dull?
George Eliot
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The history of most women is hidden either by silence, or by flourishes and ornaments that amount to silence.
Virginia Woolf
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I did buy 'The Sun' a few times, but I just don't read the tabloids. Sometimes they can have genius witty headlines, but that's all. There's nothing to read.
Lucy Punch