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Tag Name "Witty" (168)

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Witty closing remarks have been replaced by massive head trauma and severe hemorrhaging.
Jhonen Vasquez
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Witty and mean is easy - but fond and funny is hard.
Steven Moffat
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Witty, brooding, contemplative, explosive: take your pick.
Margo Jefferson
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I tried to think of a witty play on Every picture tells a thousand words, but then the whole word/picture thing collapsed on me.
Douglas Coupland
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To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.
Andre Maurois
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The characters can't be wittier than people are in real life. They have to be character witty.
Dylan Moran
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My main problem is that over and over again, I try to get all my characters to say stuff that I think is so witty or erudite you know, so that everybody will go.
Anne Lamott
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writers of novels are so busy being solitary that they haven't time to meet one another. But then, a writer learns nothing from a writer, conversationally. If a writer has anything witty, profound or quotable to say he doesn't say it. He's no fool. He writes it.
Edna Ferber
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Melancholy men, of all others, are the most witty.
Aristotle
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Smile. Nod. Say something witty before he finds out what an incredible geek you are.
Ellen Hopkins
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Truth, when witty, is the wittiest of all things.
Augustus Hare
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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
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There's many witty men whose brains can't fill their bellies.
Benjamin Franklin
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I've been blessed, because the type I started in was competition based. It was about being witty and smart and innovative and different. I don't get backlash like some of the reality shows today because that's not who I am.
Eva Marcille
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Well, remember what you said, because in a day or two, I'll have a witty and blistering retort! You'll be devastated THEN
Bill Watterson
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The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners.
Florence King
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Audiences always love the baddies. Especially these ones that are so witty and charming and outrageously devious - everything you're not supposed to be. I think it speaks to the basic, primal nature in us.
Birgitte Hjort Sørensen
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Lukewarm persons think they may accommodate points of religion by middle ways and witty reconcilements,--as if they would make an arbitrament between God and man.
Francis Bacon
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Your wit makes others witty.
Catherine the Great
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Tarrasch's 'dogmas' are not eternal truisms, but merely instructional material presented in an accessible and witty form, those necessary rudiments from which one can begin to grasp the secrets of chess.
Garry Kasparov
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Wit in women is a jewel, which, unlike all others, borrows lustre from its setting, rather than bestows it since nothing is so easy as to fancy a very beautiful woman extremely witty.
Charles Caleb Colton
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Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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A witty illustration or an apt story will accomplish more than columns of argument.
Chauncey Depew
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Pride only helps us to be generous it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.
George Eliot
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