Witty Quotes
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If it's a good book, anyone will read it. I'm totally unashamed about still reading things I loved in my childhood.
Joanne Rowling
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'Guardian' journalism itself will remain what it has always been: thoughtful, progressive, fiercely independent and challenging, and also witty, stylish, and fun.
Katharine Viner
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Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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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
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Schumann's humor is rarely either witty or light: the unrealizable musical structure, the musical motto hidden and partly inaudible, must have stirred his musical fantasy.
Charles Rosen
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Phil Hartman was brilliant, and Dave Foley is a really funny guy. Phil Hartman was actually even funnier offstage than he was onstage because he would say nasty things. Dave Foley's very funny, very witty guy, very quick.
Joe Rogan
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[On Italian:] One may almost call it a language that talks of itself, and always seems more witty than its speakers.
Madame de Stael
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A rollicking good read-THE HUNTER is steampunk with a Wild West feel. Theresa Meyers is an entertaining and witty writer with a fresh, new voice in the genre. THE HUNTER is a fun-filled ride through a world of demons, vampires, and things that go bump in the night, and kept me turning pages until the very end.
Yasmine Galenorn
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The only thing that shocks me is public interest in people who shouldn't be interesting at all, like Jade Goody. We've gone past Andy Warhol and all those clever, arty and witty things that were done and said in the sixties...the fifteen minutes, and so on. Now your celebrities don't have to do anything, they're just voted in. And that shocks me.
Marco
Adam and the Ants
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Music can be witty, but it's not funny unless it's conceptually funny.
Alan Menken
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After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.'
William S. Burroughs
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Wilde is an invaluable acquaintance. Often, in situations where I am required to appear witty, I simply steal large chunks from his works and attempt to pass them off as my own with minor modifications.
Alexandra Petri
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If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well. It were done quickly.
William Shakespeare
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Women, somehow, have the same fear of witty men as of fireworks.
Douglas Jerrold
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Never try to be witty with U.S. airport officials. It's always lost on them and you'll find yourself being put back on the plane.
Johnny Vegas
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When I first read 'Outlander' a few years ago, I was shocked to find that Jamie was the complete package: incredibly smart, incredibly witty, strong but emotionally vulnerable, passionate to a fault - and, well, the Scottish accent doesn't hurt! I actually stopped reading at several points to swoon over something he said... he's really that good.
Alexandra Bracken
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Yes, there are parallels. The difference is that I just look at [my son] David and think that he's absolutely perfect, whereas you look at the finished book and you think, 'Oh, damn it, I should have changed that.' You're never happy. Whereas with a baby, you're happy. If you've got a perfect baby, you're just grateful.
Joanne Rowling
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Stephen Sondheim is calculus for actors. The words are witty and brilliant and profound but complicated.
Marc Platt
