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Quotes About Wit

My rapier wit hides my inner pain.
~ Cassandra Clare
Well, she's not responding to my advances," he observed more brightly than he felt, "so she must be dead." "Or she's a woman of good taste and sense.
~ Cassandra Clare
I figured all your classes were stuff like Slaughter 101 and Beheading for Beginners." Jace flipped a page. "Very funny, Fray.
~ Cassandra Clare
Clary felt suddenly annoyed. "When the self-congratulatory part of the evening is over, maybe we could get back to saving my best friend from being exsanguinated to death?" "Exsanguinated," said Jace, impressed. "That's a big word." "And you're a big-" "Tsk tsk," he interupted. "No swearing in church.
~ Cassandra Clare
It's the mortal cup Jace, not the mortal toilet bowl.
~ Cassandra Clare
My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then.
~ George Gordon Byron
Some people seem quite destitute a sense of humour.
~ George Grossmith
In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.
~ George Herbert
Where the drink goes in, there the wit goes out.
~ George Herbert
Wit's an unruly engine, wildly strikingSometimes a friend, sometimes the engineer.
~ George Herbert
A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.
~ George Meredith
A joke worth laughing at always has an idea behind it, and usually a subversive idea.
~ George Orwell
Another name? Oh, certainly. And when the Faceless Men come to kill me, I'll say, 'No, you have the wrong man, I'm a different dwarf with a hideous facial scar.'" Both Lannisters laughed at the absurdity of it all. (Tyrion Lannister)
~ George R. R. Martin
You make us look bad', complained Toad. 'You looked bad before I ever met you', Jon told him.
~ George R.R. Martin
One-and-twenty sorts of birds," said Ser Kyle. "One-and-twenty sorts of bird droppings," said Ser Maynard. "You have no poetry in your heart, ser." "You have shit upon your shoulder.
~ George R.R. Martin
I confess, I do not understand what there is in her to make a clever man like you act such a fool." "You might, if you were not a eunuch." "Is that the way of it? A man may have wits, or a bit of meat between his legs, but not both?" Varys tittered. "Perhaps I should be grateful I was cut, then." The Spider was right.
~ George R.R. Martin
Ser Arys was pleasant company abed, but wit and he were strangers. (Arianne Martell)
~ George R.R. Martin
You look very elegant today, my lord." "I'm wounded. I strive to look elegant every day." - Tyrion & Littlefinger
~ George R.R. Martin
His wits were coming back to him, however slowly. That was good. His wits were all he had.
~ George R.R. Martin
If you do shit gold, Father, find a privy and get busy, he wanted to say, but he knew better. --Tyrion Lannister
~ George R.R. Martin
when I was a lad half your age, my lady mother told me that if I stood about with my mouth open, a weasel was like to mistake it for his lair and run down my throat. If you have something to say, say it. Otherwise, beware of weasels.
~ George R.R. Martin
A veces, los más grandes estúpidos son más astutos que los que se ríen de ellos.
~ George R.R. Martin
He was bright as broken glass and sharp enough to cut himself.
~ George R.R. Martin
The contents of my chamber pot are more able than Ser Harys.
~ George R.R. Martin