(295 quotes found)
“You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.”
Sacha Guitry
“Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.”
Henry Fielding
“One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.”
Jane Austen
“Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.”
William Shakespeare
“What people call insincerity is simply a method by which we can multiply our personalities.”
Oscar Wilde
“Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood”
“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
“The humorous story is American, the comic story is English, the witty story is French. The humorous story depends for its effect upon the manner of the telling; the comic story and the witty story upon the matter.”
Mark Twain
“Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.”
Francis Bacon Sr.
“Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.”
Don Marquis
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