Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ian Fleming

I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.

Horace Greeley

You may be witty, but not satirical.

Gerhard Richter

It's that same quality I've been talking about. It's neither contrived, nor surprising and smart, not baffling, not witty, not interesting, not cynical, it can't be planned and it probably can't even be described. It's just good.

James Freeman Clarke

A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.

J. R. R. Tolkien

We must do without hope.

Irving Kristol

Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.

Totally without hope, one cannot live. To live without hope is to cease to live.

Oscar Wilde

I won't belong to a club that accepts me as a member

Patrick Rothfuss

Now it's virtually impossible to write a game that successfully provides challenge and frustration, and that's a shame. We are going to lose something that makes scientists, that makes doers, that makes hard-minded, witty, clever people, and I worry that those people aren't being made these days.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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.

Leigh Hunt

Wit is the clash and reconcilement of incongruities; the meeting of extremes round a corner.

Psy

In Korean, my lyrics are witty and have twists. But translated into English, it doesn't come over. I've tried writing in English, just for me, but it doesn't work. I've got to know everything about a culture, and I don't.

Prem Rawat

What you are looking for is within you

Rachel Joyce

It was not a life, if lived without love.

Newt Gingrich

Deadline for Iraqi withdrawal is legislating defeat.

Margaret Atwood

Sons branch out, but one woman leads to another.

Margaret Thatcher

Most women defend themselves. It is the female of the species-it is the tigress and lioness in you which tends to defend when attacked.

Mark Twain

The humorous story is American, the comic story is English, the witty story is French. The humorous story depends for its effect upon the manner of the telling;the comic and the witty story upon the matter.

Pablo Picasso

Give me a museum and I'll fill it.

Pablo Picasso

I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.

Oscar Wilde

Women, as some witty Frenchman once put it, inspire us with the desire to do masterpieces and always prevent us from carrying them out.

Oscar Wilde

Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.

Oscar Wilde

If you want to be witty, say what you think at all times

Oscar Wilde

I know not whether Laws be right, Or whether Laws be wrong; All that we know who be in jail Is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, A year whose days are long.

Oscar Wilde

One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing.

Madonna Ciccone

For me, a male image that I'm really moved by is somewhere between of Oscar Wilde type of a male: the fop, the long hair, the suits, too witty for his own good, incredibly smart, scathingly funny - all that. But then my other ideal is more like the Buddhist monk - the shaved head, actually someone who sublimates their sexuality.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

The biggest defeat in every department of life is to forget, especially the things that have done you in, and to die without realizing how far people can go in the way of crumminess. When the grave lies open before us, let’s not try to be witty, but on the other hand, let’s not forget, but make it our business to record the worst of the human viciousness we’ve seen without changing one word. When that’s done, we can curl up our toes and sink into the pit. That’s work enough for a lifetime.

Michael Cunningham

a certain bohemian, good-witch sort of charm

Mark Twain

Men write many fine and plausible arguments in support of monarchy, but the fact remains that where every man has a voice, brutal laws are impossible

Martin Farquhar Tupper

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

P. J. O'Rourke

When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.

P. J. O'Rourke

The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.

Paul Erdos

A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.