Witty Quotes
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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 -
She marking them begins a wailing note And sings extemporally a woeful ditty How love makes young men thrall and old men dote How love is wise in folly, foolish-witty Her heavy anthem still concludes in woe, And still the choir of echoes answer so.
William Shakespeare
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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 -
[On Italian:] One may almost call it a language that talks of itself, and always seems more witty than its speakers.
Madame de Stael -
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 -
My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony.
Maurice Sendak -
A fool and his words are soon parted.
William Shenstone -
Unlike my subject will I frame my song, It shall be witty, and it shan't be long.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
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Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.
William Congreve -
Music can be witty, but it's not funny unless it's conceptually funny.
Alan Menken -
I get the impression the English kings were witty, for some reason. I feel like all you had was your wit.
Colin Quinn -
I didn't want to kiss you goodbye — that was the trouble — I wanted to kiss you good night — and there's a lot of difference.
Ernest Hemingway -
After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.'
William S. Burroughs -
Some BuzzFeed articles are written by smart people who use complete sentences. Some of the disposable lists are witty and appear to have taken some effort to put together.
Alex Pareene
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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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
3 pencils and quadrille pads.(when asked what CAD tools he used to design the Cray I supercomputer )
Seymour Cray
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It's not fundamentally different to any other genre, that action is a particular thing. Being able to do action sounds like it should be straightforward, but it really isn't. I always want the action to be witty. I don't want it to be merely routine.
Adrian Hodges -
You may be witty, but not satirical.
Horace Greeley -
The only possible conclusion the social sciences can draw is: some do, some don't.
Ernest Rutherford -
I like my man to be witty; he needs a sense of humour and needs to be extremely well-mannered.
Esha Gupta