Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Grant Morrison

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

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.

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.

Irving Kristol

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

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.

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.

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