Very Witty Quotes

• Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.

  William Shakespeare

  Cute, Witty, Fools Day

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 1, sc. 5, l. [37]

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• In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

  Douglas Adams

  Funny, God, Crazy

  The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy "Fit the Fifth" (radio program) (1978)

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• I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

  Groucho Marx

  Inspirational, Funny, Smile

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Witty, Disease And Death, People

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• Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.

  William Congreve

  Marriage, Witty, Play

  'The Old Bachelor' (1693) act 5, sc. 10

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• The great joke is that a realist is an optimistic pessimist. That's very witty. Whether it's truthful or not, that I don't know.

  John Hurt

  Witty, Optimistic, Truthful

  Source: www.eyeforfilm.co.uk

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• If every witty thing that's said was true, Oscar Wilde, the world would worship You!

  Michael R. Burch

  Witty, Worship You, World

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• My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony.

  Maurice Sendak

  Witty, Father, Sides

  "Among the Wild Things" by Nat Hentoff, www.newyorker.com. January 22, 1966.

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• I’d discovered, after a lot of extreme apprehension about what spoons to use, that if you do something incorrect at table with a certain arrogance, as if you knew perfectly well you were doing it properly, you can get away with it and nobody will think you are bad-mannered or poorly brought up. They will think you are original and very witty.

  Sylvia Plath

  Witty, Food, Thinking

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.16, Hamilton Books

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• My mother was a terrific force in my life. Wartime-generation woman, hadn't gone to university but should have done. Was very funny, very verbal, very clever, very witty.

  Ian Hislop

  Mother, Witty, Clever

  "Ian Hislop: satirist in chief". Interview with Stephen Moss, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2011.

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• even Mademoiselle Neubahr can't make me believe in hell. It doesn't seem a very - witty - solution of the crime-and-punishment situation, does it?

  Frances Noyes Hart

  Witty, Believe, Punishment

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• I've been enjoying 'Life on the Mississippi' by Mark Twain that I picked up at the airport randomly. It's very witty and interesting to read about his time as a steamboat pilot.

  Roman Coppola

  Witty, Airports, Interesting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I feel like there's an obsession with pace right now in theater, with things being very fast and very witty and very loud, and I think we're all so freaked out about theater keeping audiences interested because everybody's so freaked out about theater becoming irrelevant.

  Annie Baker

  Witty, Thinking, Pace

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• The habit of getting up early, which I had formed when the children were young, now became my choice. I am not very bright or very witty or very inventive after the sun goes down.

  Toni Morrison

  Witty, Children, Writing

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• It's very witty and it's great to see teenage characters have control that way. And you can actually hear about sex and pot and it's okay, it's not completely bad and you can't say that to teenagers.

  Caroline Dhavernas

  Witty, Sex, Teenage

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• 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

  Witty, Guy, Nasty

  "A Cuppa Hot Joe". Interview with J. C. Shakespeare, www.austinchronicle.com. May 4, 2001.

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• What I need is a woman who is something, anything: either very beautiful or very kind or in the last resort very wicked; very witty or very stupid, but something.

  Alfred de Musset

  Beautiful, Witty, Stupid

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