I like witty people, people who can be witty on the spot.
A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.
There are many witty men whose brains can't fill their bellies.
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.
Old Madame du Deffand and her friends talked for fifty years without stopping. And of it all, what remains? Perhaps three witty sayings. So that we are at liberty to suppose either that nothing was said, or that nothing witty was said, or that the fr...
No, sir, I'm not saying that charming, witty and warm copy won't sell. I'm just saying I've seen thousands of charming, witty campaigns that didn't sell.
My parents have always had a great sense of humor. And I really appreciate good humor in songs, witty lyrics that sneak up on you and then you listen again, and say: 'That's so funny.' John Prine's songs have always had this really witty tone.
What we ask is to be human individuals, however peculiar and unexpected. It is no good saying: "You are a little girl and therefore you ought to like dolls"; if the answer is, "But I don't," there is no more to be said.
We are much too much inclined in these days to divide people into permanent categories, forgetting that a category only exists for its special purpose and must be forgotten as soon as that purpose is served.
A witty saying proves nothing.
In fact, there is perhaps only one human being in a thousand who is passionately interested in his job for the job's sake. The difference is that if that one person in a thousand is a man, we say, simply, that he is passionately keen on his job; if s...
Once lay down the rule that the job comes first and you throw that job open to every individual, man or woman, fat or thin, tall or short, ugly or beautiful, who is able to do that job better than the rest of the world.
Conquered people tend to be witty.
Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
Witty inspirations are the proverbs of the educated.
I am occasionally desired by congenital imbeciles and the editors of magazines to say something about the writing of detective fiction “from the woman’s point of view.” To such demands, one can only say “Go away and don’t be silly. You migh...
Wise are my ways witty my actions
You can pretend to be serious; but you can't pretend to be witty.
There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature.
Love is more powerful than prettiness or wittiness.
Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.
