A Quote by Catherine the Great

Your wit makes others witty.

Catherine the Great

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Catherine the Great
Russian - Royalty
April 21, 1729 - November 6, 1796

The art of conversation consists far less in displaying much wit oneself than in helping others to be witty: the man who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own wit is very well pleased with you.

Jean de la Bruyere

Who can prove Wit to be witty when with deeper ground Dulness intuitive declares wit dull?

George Eliot

Every habit makes our hand more witty and our wit less handy.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Wit in women is a jewel, which, unlike all others, borrows lustre from its setting, rather than bestows it; since nothing is so easy as to fancy a very beautiful woman extremely witty.

Charles Caleb Colton

I get the impression the English kings were witty, for some reason. I feel like all you had was your wit.

Colin Quinn

By wit we search divine aspect above, By wit we learn what secrets science yields, By wit we speak, by wit the mind is rul'd, By wit we govern all our actions; Wit is the loadstar of each human thought, Wit is the tool by which all things are wrought.

Robert Greene

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 fraction of three witty sayings lasted eighteen thousand two hundred and fifty nights, which does not leave a liberal allowance of wit for any one of them.

Virginia Woolf

The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners.

Florence King

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.

William Shakespeare

Your wits make others witty.

Catherine the Great

I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.

William Shakespeare

I don't think I'm a witty person. To me, a witty person is a funny person who is also a smart person. My friend David Rakoff, who died a few years ago, he was a witty person. Fran Lebowitz is a witty person. I don't think there are that many witty people around, so you tend to notice them when they do come around. I don't consider myself to be that.