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Quotes About Witty

It was great fun to hang around the Beatles. They had amazingly fast minds, and they were incredibly amusing and funny and witty. They were great. There was a very high energy surrounding them.
~ Pattie Boyd
As a general rule, when you comment on a blog, make it knowledgeable or witty and, most of all, relevant to that post - then, simply sign it with your name and your book title. Resist the urge to brag or sell your book.
~ M. J. Rose
A lot of comics fly by the seat of their pants, and they pride themselves on being witty, quick, and off-the-cuff. That's not my show. I wrote a show, and I want to do the show I wrote. I'm not interested in what the audience has to say.
~ Retta
Witty, adventurous guys really rev my engine.
~ Miranda Rae Mayo
Ultimately, Cole Porter's music might say more about his life than any biography could. His songs, with their witty lyrics and debonair style, are an advertisement for his personality and his public persona.
~ Stephen McCauley
What? No defense? Any student of mine must be able to defend his ideas against an attack. No matter how you spend your life, your wit will defend you more often than a sword. Keep it sharp!
~ rothfuss
The kind of man one falls in love with is usually entertaining, witty, and handsome; but equally often he has no means to support one, is highly unreliable
~ Anne Perry
Oh, baby, this ain't asshole. Trust me. There's a whole keg of asshole I haven't even begun to tap yet.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
The characters can't be wittier than people are in real life. They have to be character witty.
~ Dylan Moran
Tis not as thou wert not noted for the occasional abrupt disappearance.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Oh, she was good at those sidelong glances, and sharp as a tack.
~ Elizabeth Bear
I had a moment's respect for this wily silce of code.
~ Elizabeth Bear
It's rare in satirical comedy not just to be cynical.
~ Josh Widdicombe
I'm in the back of a limousine with Charlie Chaplin and it's 1928. Charlie is beautiful; his body language seems to skip, and reel and rhyme, heartbreaking and witty at the same time. It seems to promise a better world.
~ Geoff Ryman
Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.
~ George Eliot
When you get me a good man made out of arguments, I will get you a good dinner with reading you the cookery-book.
~ George Eliot
Where's that guy with the coffee?' 'I'm here.' Mannix had appeared. 'You went to Costa Rica for the beans?
~ Marian Keyes
1 This is not a metaphor, it is a simile, which means that it really did look like there were two very small mice hiding in his nostrils and if you make a picture in your head of a man with two very small mice hiding in his nostrils you will know what the police inspector looked like. And a simile is not a lie, unless it is a bad simile.
~ Mark Haddon
Sé practico: regala un ataúd
~ Antony Beevor
Melancholy men, of all others, are the most witty.
~ Aristotle
He's got a mind like a sewer and a heart like a fridge.
~ Elvis Costello
Who am I to be marryin' people?" Little Will smiled with a hint of mischief, "Waxy, who better than the boss harness man to tie the know?
~ Barry B. Longyear
I am not quite sober you know. In fact, I am drunk, but I cannot help feeling this is all a trifle, shall we say, irregular?
~ Georgette Heyer
Comedy always works best when it is mean-spirited.
~ John Cleese