Famous Quotes & Sayings

Saint Augustine

For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?

Robyn Carr

Count on Jill Shalvis for a witty, steamy, unputdownable love story.

Rob Brydon

I like witty people, people who can be witty on the spot.

Richelle Mead

My commentary's hilarious, not witty.

Richelle Mead

I always love it whenever Rose delivers one of her witty one-liners—particularly when it’s a completely serious situation. The contrast always amuses me, but then, I’m biased.

Robert Metcalfe

Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.

Rebecca De Mornay

I was so amazingly witty when I had the No. 1 movie, you have no idea. People laughed at every single one of my jokes. Then when I hadn't had a hit for three or four years, some of these same people pretended they didn't see me when I walked in the room.

Rohinton Mistry

The Law is a grim, unsmiling thing. Not Justice, though. Justice is witty and whimsical and kind and caring.

Samuel Johnson

Wit is that which has been often thought, but never before was well expressed.

William Holden

Hell is paved with good samaritans.

Voltaire

Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.

Voltaire

A witty quote proves nothing.

Voltaire

A witty saying proves nothing, but saying something pointless gets people's attention.

William Styron

Like Hemingway and Faulkner, but in an entirely different mode, Fitzgerald had that singular quality without which a writer is not really a writer at all, and that is a voice, a distinct and identifiable voice. This is really not the same thing as a style; a style can be emulated, a voice cannot, and the witty, rueful, elegaic voice gives his work its bright authenticity.

Walter Savage Landor

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

Winston Churchill

If you wanted nothing done at all, Balfour was the man for the job.

Winston Churchill

He looks like a female llama who has been surprised in the bath.

Winston Churchill

A sheep in sheep's clothing.

Winston Churchill

In war it does not matter who is right, but who is left.

Winston Churchill

Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has no heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains.

Winston Churchill

Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party

Virginia Woolf

I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well in it.

Virginia Woolf

The history of most women is hidden either by silence, or by flourishes and ornaments that amount to silence.

Saint Augustine

God without us will not as we without God cannot.

Winston Churchill

Science should be on tap, not on top.

Winston Churchill

The English never draw a line without blurring it.

Will Rogers

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

Will Rogers

The taxpayers are sending congressmen on expensive trips abroad. It might be worth it except they keep coming back

Will Rogers

The more you observe politics, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

W. C. Fields

Anyone who hates children and animals can't be all bad.

W. C. Fields

I personally stay away from natural foods. At my age I need all the preservatives I can get.

W. C. Fields

I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Zayn Malik

Get on in life because life will get on without you if you don't keep up.