Witty Quotes

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
William Shakespeare

Fool, Foolish, Wit

A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.
George Meredith

Beauty, Power, Woman

A witty saying proves nothing.
Voltaire

Nothing, Saying, Proves

Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.
Albert Schweitzer

Truth, True, Simple

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
Francis Bacon

Men, Anger, Poor

If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Often, Company, Loss

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
Honore de Balzac

Time, Husband, Simple

Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.
Francis Bacon

Integrity, Virtue, Above

People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.
George Eliot

Themselves, Devout, Exert

No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech.
Kin Hubbard

Alone, Help, Woman

There is an element of seduction in shoes that doesn't exist for men. A woman can be sexy, charming, witty or shy with her shoes.
Christian Louboutin

Men, Sexy, Woman

One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.
Jane Austen

Cannot, Laughing, Stumbling

To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.
Andre Maurois

Enough, Avoid, Wit

A large nose is the mark of a witty, courteous, affable, generous and liberal man.
Cyrano de Bergerac

Nose, Liberal, Large

Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.
William Congreve

Marriage, Play, Dull

Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.
Thomas Hobbes

Nature, Men, Wise

Many a witty inspiration is like the surprising reunion of befriended thoughts after a long separation.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Long, Thoughts, After

Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.
Christian Nestell Bovee

Best, Another, Able

The chance to be seen as a warm, witty guy is too good an opportunity for a politician to miss.
Robert Orben

Good, Chance, Guy

If you fight angry, you make a lot of mistakes, and when you fight a sharp, witty fighter like me, you can't make mistakes.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

Mistakes, Angry, Fight

Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Character, Appearance, Wit

I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things: disease and death... I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals.
Emma Thompson

Death, Difficult, Quite

Witty inspirations are the proverbs of the educated.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Educated, Proverbs

Nothing is more witty and grotesque than ancient mythology and Christianity; that is because they are so mystical.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Nothing, Mythology, Ancient

A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.
George Dennison Prentice

Kindness, Lost, Broken

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

Famous, Saying, Done

I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I liked.
David Bailey

Fashion, Liked, Amusing

You are wise, witty and wonderful, but you spend too much time reading this sort of stuff.
Frank Crane

Time, Wise, Wonderful

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

Humor, Father, Irony

Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

Lie, Three, Writer

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