(295 quotes found)
“I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.”
Mark Twain
“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
“Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play”
William Congreve
“You are wise, witty and wonderful, but you spend too much time reading this sort of stuff.”
Frank Crane
“if in doubt f*** it”
John Lennon
“The next best thing to being witty is to quote another's wit”
Christian Nevell Bovee
“Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.”
Dr. Laurence J. Peter
“I speak two languages, Body and English.”
Mae West
“No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech.”
Langston Hughes
“Next to being witty yourself, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.”