Witty Quotes

• The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all is the person who argues with him.

  

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
  • Life
  • Funny
  • Knows

• 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.

  

  Lee Seung-hyun Big Bang
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Artist

• A fool and his words are soon parted.

  

  William Shenstone
  • Fool
  • Witty
  • Foolishness

• 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
  • Done
  • Comedy
  • Famous

• Howard Marks is very intelligent and well read, eloquent, witty, charming. I think it was those qualities that got him through. I was interested to explore that because generally, we perceive criminals as dark, twisted, angry characters. Howard isn't any of those. He was punished for his crime, released from prison, and has lived to tell the tale.

  

  Rhys Ifans
  • Character
  • Quality
  • Dark

• 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
  • Witty

• If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well. It were done quickly.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Done
  • Wells
  • Witty

• I praise God for you, sir: your reasons at dinner have been sharp and sententious; pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, audacious without impudency, learned without opinion, and strange with-out heresy.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Learning
  • Opinion
  • Strange

• Plurality is not to be posited without necessity.

  

  William of Occam
  • Logic
  • Witty

• Every habit makes our hand more witty and our wit less handy.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Hand
  • Habit
  • Witty

• 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
  • Lost
  • Witty

• And they're [Coen brothers] so smart, they're so witty, they have such an extraordinary way of communicating with an audience in a such a clean way - with just a few lines or just a gesture from a character, they say so much.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Character
  • Brother
  • Smart

• There are a lot of great technicians in advertising. And unfortunately they talk the best game. They know all the rules. They can tell you that people in an ad will get you greater readership. They can tell you that a sentence should be this short or that long. They can tell you that body copy should be broken up for easier reading. They can give you fact after fact after fact. They are the scientists of advertising. But there's one little rub. Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art.

  

  William Bernbach
  • Art
  • Wise
  • Forget

• Well, well, perhaps I am a bit of a talker. A popular fellow such as I am - my friends get round me - we chaff, we sparkle, we tell witty stories - and somehow my tongue gets wagging. I have the gift of conversation. I’ve been told I ought to have a salon, whatever that may be.

  

  Kenneth Grahame
  • May
  • Friends
  • Popular

• Interesting - I use a Mac to help me design the next Cray.(when he was told that Apple Inc. had recently bought a Cray supercomputer to help them design the next Mac )

  

  Seymour Cray
  • Interesting
  • Design
  • Helping

• My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony.

  

  Maurice Sendak
  • Father
  • Witty

• Unlike my subject will I frame my song, It shall be witty, and it shan't be long.

  

  Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
  • Long
  • Song
  • Witty

• You may be witty, but not satirical.

  

  Horace Greeley
  • May
  • Wit
  • Satirical

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

  

  Colin Quinn
  • English
  • Witty

• Like Hemingway and Faulkner, but in an entirely different mode, Fitzgerald had that singular quality without which a writer is not really a writer at all, and that is a voice, a distinct and identifiable voice. This is really not the same thing as a style; a style can be emulated, a voice cannot, and the witty, rueful, elegaic voice gives his work its bright authenticity.

  

  William Styron
  • Different
  • Giving
  • Style

• Luckily the script of X-files episode was written wonderfully and that became who I was and I was quirky, and I was kind of agitated and not entirely happy, but at the same time, witty.

  

  Rhys Darby
  • Kind
  • Written
  • Scripts

• I have little brothers and sisters, and they annoy me a lot, but I love them so much because they're so smart and witty.

  

  Letitia Wright
  • Smart
  • Witty

• Honestly, I had no idea what to do on Twitter when I started. I didn't follow it enough. Slowly, though, I started to realize what I'm okay at. Like, I'm just not particularly witty.

  

  David Grann
  • Witty

• Because of my mother, who gave me definitions, I knew what I was committed to in life. ... I had the most satisfactory of childhoods because Mother, small, delicate-boned, witty, and articulate, turned out to be exactly my age.

  

  Kay Boyle
  • Mother
  • Childhood
  • Definitions

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