Top 1200 Very Witty Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

My music started out as a complete joke, so really all I was doing was going for witty punchlines to make all of my buddies laugh.

New York City gritty committee pity the fool that act shitty in the midst of the calm, the witty.

I don't believe any experiment until it is confirmed by theory. I find this is a witty inversion of "conventional" wisdom.

I mean, I do love clever and witty, but I think that the 'Three Stooges' were geniuses. They'd have to be for their appeal to have lasted this long.

I make grown-folks music, and I'm cool with that. I accept that. I try to be witty while also delivering a message.

Smile. Nod. Say something witty before he finds out what an incredible geek you are.

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

I need to not be typecast as big, black, and dumb but be seen as an intelligent, witty, bold, and charismatic person.

Never try to be witty with U.S. airport officials. It's always lost on them and you'll find yourself being put back on the plane.

I am attracted to intelligence, a witty sense of humor, an adventurous outlook on life and spiritual awareness about one's self and the world.

There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature - the malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick.

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

A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual shortcomings.

Luckily the script [of X-files episode] was written wonderfully and that became who I was and I was quirky, and I was kind of agitated and not entirely happy, but at the same time, witty.

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

I say funny stuff in my lyrics to make people laugh, but it's all in the seriousness of the music. I'm just being witty.

Nam June Paik's artworks are highly intellectual, cutting-edge, and sophisticated. But he was also witty, humorous, and self-deprecating.

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.

'Guardian' journalism itself will remain what it has always been: thoughtful, progressive, fiercely independent and challenging, and also witty, stylish, and fun.

Well, remember what you said, because in a day or two, I'll have a witty and blistering retort! You'll be devastated THEN

My instinct is to surround myself with the company of wise, witty, wonderful women, and I have a great bank of female friends of all ages.

Letting Go: A Little Bit at a Time is filled with big ideas that just might change your life. Wise, witty, and important.

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

I have a goofy side that impacts my clothing a lot. To that end, I love witty, colorful, prints.

Witty closing remarks have been replaced by massive head trauma and severe hemorrhaging.

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

Though lust do masque in ne'er so strange disguise she's oft found witty, but is never wise.

My childhood was lonely. Both my parents were away a lot, working, and the maid basically raised me. And I think that's where a lot of my comedy comes from. Not only was the maid very funny and witty, but when my mother came home I'd use humour to try and get her attention. If I made mommy laugh, then maybe everything would be all right. I think that's where it [my comedy] all started.

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

I think Irish women are strong as horses, incredibly loyal and for the most part, funny, witty, bright and optimistic in the face of devastating reality.

My music is basically all about witty punchlines and lyric progression that is aimed to make you laugh or say "Woah."

I have little brothers and sisters, and they annoy me a lot, but I love them so much because they're so smart and witty.

Nobody thanks a witty man for politeness when he puts himself on a par with a society in which it would not be polite to show one's wit.

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

Shakespeare, Butler and Bacon have rendered it extremely difficult for all who come after them to be sublime, witty or profound.

Antonin Scalia was witty, warm, funny, and full of life. He was not only one of the most important justices in the nation's history; he was also among the greatest.

[On Italian:] One may almost call it a language that talks of itself, and always seems more witty than its speakers.

Zimbabweans are so smart and witty and able to weave together tons of situations and experiences into terminologies that are just utterly original.

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

Honesty is the foundation of a sound character and the keystone of all other virtues. It is the cement without which all other redeeming features are fractured and without anchor. A dishonest person may be kind, witty, and very capable, but the strength of character simply isn't there. Honesty does not come by degrees. A person is either all honest or he is dishonest. You can be true or you can be false, but you can't be both at the same time.

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.

Clever, witty and absorbing, Amortality is a much-needed anatomy of our profound malaise about ageing. Its charms will never fade.

Audiences always love the baddies. Especially these ones that are so witty and charming and outrageously devious - everything you're not supposed to be. I think it speaks to the basic, primal nature in us.

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

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

If every witty thing that's said was true, Oscar Wilde, the world would worship You!

Quoting E. B. White is the easiest way I know of to fool people into thinking that I am perceptive, witty, and wise.

My contributions were many: First clown director, with witty sayings and flashily dressed, now called master of ceremonies.

Television has an awful lot to do with the Kennedy mystique and the fact that he's frozen in people's minds at the age of 46, and he was handsome and personable and witty and charming.

I am so frickin' cool and delicious and pretty and witty and sharp! I love every inch of me! Who wouldn't?

I've worked a lot with Noah Baumbach, and he doesn't make it easy to like his characters, but the stories are funny and witty and there's an edge to that kind of humanity.

Facebook, I'm learning, is like a man. You have to be smiley and fun and witty but sometimes you have to play it cool and just ignore it for a couple of hours.

I know the bestseller 'Gone Girl' doesn't need an ounce of support from me, but that book was as sharp and witty as they come.

A large nose is in fact the sign of an affable man, good, courteous, witty, liberal, courageous, such as I am.

Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also.

Grave authors say, and witty poets sing, That honest wedlock is a glorious thing.

A witty writer is like a porcupine; his quill makes no distinction between friend and foe.

After New York, Chicago is my favorite city. It's just this great mix of Europe and America. The friends I have there are smart and witty and fun.

Be completely honest - have you ever met someone who you thought was truly clever or interesting or witty who wore fawn?

Critchley and Webster’s fierce, witty exploration of Hamlet makes most other writing about Shakespeare seem simpleminded.