Witty Sayings Quotes

• A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty saying are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.

  George D. Prentice

  Witty, Kindness, Broken

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• A witty saying proves nothing.

  Voltaire

  Inspirational, Witty, Humorous

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

  Voltaire

  Witty, People, Attention

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• A long memory is the most subversive idea in America. A tautology is a thing which is tautological. A witty saying proves nothing, but saying something pointless gets people's attention. If your kids look like you, it's hereditory. If they look like the neighbor, it's the environment. Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing.

  Dave Barry

  Witty, Memories, Kids

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• Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.

  James Thurber

  Witty, Stupid, Trying

  Letter to Malcolm Cowley on March 11, 1954. "Collecting Himself". Book by James Thurber, 1989.

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• My contributions were many: First clown director, with witty sayings and flashily dressed, now called master of ceremonies.

  Jelly Roll Morton

  Witty, Directors, Firsts

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• Old Madame du Deffand and her friends talked for fifty years without stopping. And of it all, what remains? Perhaps three witty sayings. So that we are at liberty to suppose either that nothing was said, or that nothing witty was said, or that the fraction of three witty sayings lasted eighteen thousand two hundred and fifty nights, which does not leave a liberal allowance of wit for any one of them.

  Virginia Woolf

  Witty, Night, Years

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.495, Wordsworth Editions

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• There are three estates in Parliament but in the Reporters' Gallery yonder there sits a Fourth Estate more important far than they all. It is not a figure of speech or witty saying, it is a literal fact, very momentous to us in these times.

  Edmund Burke

  Witty, Knowledge, Important

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