513 Quotes About Wit

You remember having friends who used to lampoon the world so effortlessly, crouching at the verge of every joke and waiting to pounce on it, and you remember how they changed as they grew older and the joy of questioning everything slowly became transformed into the pain of questioning everything, like a star consuming its own core.

In less than a year, the Bush administration will strut out of office, leaving the country in roughly the same condition a toddler leaves a diaper.

Wit ought to be a glorious treat, like caviar. Never spread it about like marmalade.

Ah, but I’m not a gentleman,” said the Marquis. “I have it on the best of authority that I am only a nobleman.”“Good gracious, Vidal, who in the world dared to say such a thing?” cried his cousin, instantly diverted.“Mary,” replied his lordship, pouring himself out a glass of wine.

She would walk through the kitchen at any hour, whenever she was hungry, and put her fork in the pots and eat a little of everything without placing anything on a plate, standing in front of the stove, talking to the serving women, who were the only ones with whom she felt comfortable, the ones she got along with best.

This was a lucky recollection -- it saved her from something like regret.

I wondered what he would have thought if he'd known that I'd gleaned most of my information from reading historical romance novels.

Paparazzi arrived for Hugh [Grant]. We had to stand under a tree and smile for them.Photographer: 'Hugh, could you look less -- um --'Hugh: 'Pained?

For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle.