Quotes about wit
witty real memorable
Gritty and witty, The Chicago Way is done the classic Raymond Chandler Way. Harvey's taut plot, snappy prose, and memorable characters make this debut novel a real winner. Kathy Reichs
witty stupid trying
Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear. James Thurber
witty eye unique
It's really crucial to achieve that balance with a film like this, cause it is unique and witty and then there's the tendency to force that. It becomes contrived and I know the feeling like, give me a fork that I can stab in my eye in those kinds of movies. Ellen Page
witty character mind
It's much simpler to be tortured on camera or to be filmed losing your mind. Whereas a script that has characters who are honest, witty and genuine is often much harder to act.
witty men thinking
Most men will not swim before they are able to.” Is that not witty? Naturally, they won't swim! They are born for the solid earth, not for the water. And naturally they wont think. They are made for life, not for thought. Yes, and he who thinks, what’s more, he who makes thought his business, he may go far in it, but he has bartered the solid earth for the water all the same, and one day he will drown. Hermann Hesse
witty cat nerves
A cat is witty, he has nerve, he knows how to do precisely the right thing at the right moment. Henri Poincare
witty pain self
Remorse presupposes enough self-forgetfulness to feel the pain ofothers. Helen Prejean
witty money men
Sir, money, money, the most charming of all things; money, which will say more in one moment than the most elegant lover can in years. Perhaps you will say a man is not young; I answer he is rich. He is not genteel, handsome, witty, brave, good-humored, but he is rich, rich, rich, rich, rich -that one word contradicts everything you can say against him. Henry Fielding
witty sex minutes
He in a few minutes ravished this fair creature, or at least would have ravished her, if she had not, by a timely compliance, prevented him.
wit good-humor
Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
witty children doing-nothing
When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
witty time powerful
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. Napoleon Bonaparte
witty funny-inspirational business
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
witty new-york real
I'm going to show you the real New York - witty, smart, and international - like any metropolis. Tell me this: where in Europe can you find old Hungary, old Russia, old France, old Italy? In Europe you're trying to copy America, you're almost American. But here you'll find Europeans who immigrated a hundred years ago - and we haven't spoiled them. Oh, Gio! You must see why I love New York. Because the whole world's in New York.... Oriana Fallaci
wit folly ifs
If folly disappeared, wit would starve. Mason Cooley
witty winning style
In comedy, the witty style wins out over every mishap of the plot.
wit whole
Wit saves us from being swallowed whole by life.
witty father embarrassed
My father liked to moralize, and so do I. But he was in earnest, while I am embarrassed and pretend that I am merely being witty.
witty smart writing
If there's ever a woman who's smart, funny, or witty, people are afraid of that, so they don't write that. They only write parts for women where they let everything be steamrolled over them, where they let people wipe their feet all over them. Teri Garr
witty tired people
Tired people aren't witty Teri Hatcher
witty guy nasty
Phil Hartman was brilliant, and Dave Foley is a really funny guy. Phil Hartman was actually even funnier offstage than he was onstage because he would say nasty things. Dave Foley's very funny, very witty guy, very quick. Joe Rogan
witness wanted
I have not been the witness I wanted to be. Joan Didion
witty disease-and-death people
I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things: disease and death... I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals. Emma Thompson
wit
So many heads so many wits. John Heywood
witty secret chess
... Tarrasch's 'dogmas' are not eternal truisms, but merely instructional material presented in an accessible and witty form, those necessary rudiments from which one can begin to grasp the secrets of chess ... Garry Kasparov
witty badass mistake
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. Frank Lloyd Wright
witty humble humility
I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it? Joan Baez
witty talking listening
Everyone striving to be witty and sought-after, everyone talking and no one listening... Lisa Kleypas
wit satisfied position
No one is satisfied with his position, but every one is satisfied with his wit Leo Tolstoy
witty powerful stupid
Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.
witty laughter children
Laughter not only makes the journey endurable and even enjoyable, it also helps keep us healthy.... Be like a child: learn to laugh more! Joyce Meyer
witty clothes naked
I wasn't really naked. I simply didn't have any clothes on. Josephine Baker
witty character imagination
Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel