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“Life is extraordinarily suave and sweet with certain natural, witty, affectionate people who have unusual distinction and are capable of every vice, but who make a display of none in public and about whom no one can affirm they have a single one. There is something supple and secret about them. Besides, their perversity gives spice to their most innocent occupations, such as taking a walk in the garden at night.”
Marcel Proust
“Conquered people tend to be witty.”
Saul Bellow
“Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.”
Francis Bacon Sr.
“Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.”
Evelyn Waugh
“I'll publish, right or wrong: / Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.”
Lord Byron
“Though lust do masque in ne'er so strange disguise she's oft found witty, but is never wise.”
John Webster
“Go, write it in a martial hand; be curst and brief; it is no matter how witty, so it be eloquent and fun of invention: taunt him with the licence of ink: if thou thou'st him some thrice, it shall not be amiss; and as many lies as will lie in thy shee”
William Shakespeare
“A large nose is the mark of a witty, courteous, affable, generous and liberal man.”
Cyrano De Bergerac
“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”
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
“There's many witty men whose brains can't fill their bellies”
Benjamin Franklin
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