1,018 Quotes About Witty

It is a curious fact, but a fact it is, that your witty people are the most hard-hearted in the world. The truth is, fancy destroys feeling. The quick eye to the ridiculous turns every thing to the absurd side; and the neat sentence, the lively allusion, and the odd simile, invest what they touch with something of their own buoyant nature. Humor is of the heart, and has its tears; but wit is of the head, and has only smiles - and the majority of those are bitter.

Every witticism is an inexact thought; that which is perfectly true is imperfectly witty.

But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.

Now it was just the three of us: the leader, the warrior, and the kid about to wet his pants. Guess who I was.

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

The characters can't be wittier than people are in real life. They have to be character witty

Talking to oneself, I have often thought, is the best way to be sure of intelligent and witty conversation.

Criticism is prejudice made plausible.

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.