Famous Quotes & Sayings

As witnesses that the things were not done in a corner.

They say, 'we're within the treaty, we're within our rights'.

There is now a shortlist and we should make an appointment within the week.

You're just as witty as you feel, just as witty as you feel inside.

Ernest Rutherford

All science is either physics or stamp collecting.

Ernest Rutherford

The only possible conclusion the social sciences can draw is: some do, some don't.

Christopher Hitchens

Plainly, this unwillingness to give ground even on unimportant disagreements is the symptom of some deepseated insecurity, as was my one-time fondness for making teasing remarks (which I amended when I read Anthony Powell's matter-of-fact observation that teasing is an unfailing sign of misery within) and as is my very pronounced impatience. The struggle, therefore, is to try and cultivate the virtuous side of these shortcomings: to be a genial host while only slightly whiffled, for example, or to be witty at the expense of one's own weaknesses instead of those of other people.

Mindy Kaling

I have a goofy side that impacts my clothing a lot. To that end, I love witty, colorful, prints.

Jim Butcher

Ack!" I said. Fearless master of the witty dialogue, that's me.

Jessi Klein

Being witty was the only side effect of being depressed that was working for me.

George Herbert

Laugh not too much; the witty man laughs least: For wit is news only to ignorance. Lesse at thine own things laugh; lest in the jest Thy person share, and the conceit advance.

Moliere

The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.

Kris Carr

I am so frickin' cool and delicious and pretty and witty and sharp! I love every inch of me! Who wouldn't?

Kim Harrison

Dead Witch Walking is basically a modern-day witch living in Cincinnati.

Irvin S. Cobb

A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual shortcomings.

Irvin S. Cobb

I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.

Irvin S. Cobb

If I wanted to go crazy I would do it in Washington because it would not be noticed

Gloria Steinem

It doesn't matter where we begin the personal/political circle, but it matters desperately that we complete it.

Gloria Steinem

Logic is in the eye of the logician.

Harry S Truman

If you can't convince them, confuse them.

Harry S Truman

I remember when I first came to Washington. For the first six months you wonder how the hell you ever got here. For the next six months you wonder how the hell the rest of them ever got here.

J. K. Rowling

Krystal’s slow passage up the school had resembled the passage of a goat through the body of a boa constrictor, being highly visible and uncomfortable for both parties concerned.

J. K. Rowling

No witch has ever claimed to own the Elder Wand. Make of that what you will.

Grant Morrison

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

George Herbert

Life without a friend is death without a witnesse. [Life without a friend is death without a witness.]

Georg C. Lichtenberg

The great trick of regarding small departures from the truth as the truth itself - on which is founded the entire integral calculus - is also the basis of our witty speculations, where the whole thing would often collapse if we considered the departures with philosophical rigour.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Nobody thanks a witty man for politeness when he puts himself on a par with a society in which it would not be polite to show one's wit.

Giacomo Casanova

In fact, to gull a fool seems to me an exploit worthy of a witty man.

Giacomo Casanova

Beauty without wit offers nothing but the enjoyment of its material charms, whilst witty ugliness captivates by the charms of the mind, and at last fulfils all the desires of the man it has captivated.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

What is perfectly true is perfectly witty.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.

Ian Fleming

Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.