(551 quotes found)
“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
“Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.”
Thomas Hobbes
“Though lust do masque in ne'er so strange disguise she's oft found witty, but is never wise.”
John Webster
“You are wise, witty and wonderful, but you spend too much time reading this sort of stuff.”
Frank Crane
“Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.”
Oscar Wilde
“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
“If a person offends you, and you are in doubt as to whether it was intentional or not, do not resort to extreme measures; simply watch your chance and hit him with a brick.”
Mark Twain
“Whenever a friend succeeds a little something in me dies.”
Gore Vidal
“Next to being witty yourself, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.”
Christian Nevell Bovee
“A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked”
Bernard Meltzer
