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Last updated on April 19, 2025.
Everyone striving to be witty and sought-after, everyone talking and no one listening.
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.
Nam June Paik's artworks are highly intellectual, cutting-edge, and sophisticated. But he was also witty, humorous, and self-deprecating.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Queen Elizabeth is reserved when she meets strangers - but with friends and family she can be very witty.
Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.
A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.
We find ourselves less witty in remembering what we have said than in dreaming of what we would have said.
There is an element of seduction in shoes that doesn't exist for men. A woman can be sexy, charming, witty or shy with her shoes.
Every habit makes our hand more witty and our wit less handy.
even Mademoiselle Neubahr can't make me believe in hell. It doesn't seem a very - witty - solution of the crime-and-punishment situation, does it?
Who can prove Wit to be witty when with deeper ground Dulness intuitive declares wit dull?
The Law is a grim, unsmiling thing. Not Justice, though. Justice is witty and whimsical and kind and caring.
When it comes to culture, I'm sort of like Nostradamus if he'd been a handsome, witty minor celebrity with a great head of hair instead of a crusty old dude from the olden days.
A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty saying are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.
Being witty was the only side effect of being depressed that was working for me.
Silence in love betrays more woe - Than words though ne'er so witty; A beggar that is dumb, you know, may challenge double pity.
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.
Critchley and Webster’s fierce, witty exploration of Hamlet makes most other writing about Shakespeare seem simpleminded.
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.
I get the impression the English kings were witty, for some reason. I feel like all you had was your wit.
I wouldn't even dare read the Torah, let alone attempt a witty observation on the Torah.
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.
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.
Curran grinned and my heart made a little jump. I didn’t expect that. “That’s it? That’s your witty comeback?” “Yep.” Eloquence ’R’ Us. When in trouble, keep it monosyllabic—safer that way.
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 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.
A witty saying proves nothing, but saying something pointless gets people's attention.
Bill Gallagher's new version of 'The Prisoner' is an enthralling commentary on modern culture. It is witty, intelligent and disturbing. I am very excited to be involved.
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.
Music can be witty, but it's not funny unless it's conceptually funny.
You can't just be crass without being witty. Angry crass is horrible.
I like my man to be witty; he needs a sense of humour and needs to be extremely well-mannered.
Lukewarm persons think they may accommodate points of religion by middle ways and witty reconcilements,--as if they would make an arbitrament between God and man.
A cat is witty, he has nerve, he knows how to do precisely the right thing at the right moment.
What I don't like is snark for snark's sake. If you are going to make fun of me, at least be witty while doing it.
It's that same quality I've been talking about. It's neither contrived, nor surprising and smart, not baffling, not witty, not interesting, not cynical, it can't be planned and it probably can't even be described. It's just good.
Generally speaking, there is more wit than talent in the world. Society swarms with witty people who lack talent.
Zimbabweans are so smart and witty and able to weave together tons of situations and experiences into terminologies that are just utterly original.
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.
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.
Letting Go: A Little Bit at a Time is filled with big ideas that just might change your life. Wise, witty, and important.
The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to be able to quote another's wit.
Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual shortcomings.
My father liked to moralize, and so do I. But he was in earnest, while I am embarrassed and pretend that I am merely being witty.
Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.
'Guardian' journalism itself will remain what it has always been: thoughtful, progressive, fiercely independent and challenging, and also witty, stylish, and fun.
Clever, witty and absorbing, Amortality is a much-needed anatomy of our profound malaise about ageing. Its charms will never fade.
For table-talk, I prefer the pleasant and witty before the learned and the grave; in bed, beauty before goodness.
Though lust do masque in ne'er so strange disguise she's oft found witty, but is never wise.
My contributions were many: First clown director, with witty sayings and flashily dressed, now called master of ceremonies.
I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I liked.
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.
A transposable aphorism is a malaise of the urge to be witty, or in other words, a maxim that is untroubled by the fact that the opposite of what it says is equally true so long as it appears to be funny.
