Witty Quotes

Your brother Jaime keeps losing battles. He gave Sansa an angry look, as if it were her fault. He’s ...

The man is as useless as nipples on a breastplate.

I frankly felt like the reception we received on the way in from the airport was very warm and hospi...

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the o...

This is the fast lane, folks...and some of us like it here.

Says O'Sullivan to me, "Mr. Fay, I'll have a word wid yeh?" "Certainly," says I; "what can I do for ...

He had not the makings of that honest man to whom success comes naturally.

Taking a single letter from the alphaber," he said, "should make life simpler.""I don't see why. Tak...

How unlucky that you should have a reasonable answer to give, and that I should be so reasonable as ...

It is your turn to say something now, Mr. Darcy. I talked about the dance, and you ought to make som...

Marriage is an honorable estate and should not be used simply as an excuse for legal intercourse.

A technicality I'm prepared to hide wildly behind.

-"He loved her...It was noble of him. It was beautiful."-"It was stupid.

Pearls are congealed oyster spit.

Think of yourselves as pearls. We, sitting in our rows, eyes down, we make her salivate morally. We ...

The humorous story is American, the comic story is English, the witty story is French.

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

Life is too fleet for onomatopoeia.

Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no fibs.

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

His principles were out of date, but there was a good deal to be said for his prejudices.

It is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg.

Yesterday he had limped, but today there was no part of his feet that didn't hurt, so limping did no...

I’d heard you were dead.”"I heard you wear a red lace corset,” I said matter-of-factly. “But I don’t...

This is what is called speaking. I believe that is the term. When words come out, fly into the air, ...

There it was: a full confession. Sherlock Holmes had done it again, and as I marveled at my devastat...

Experience was something it was difficult to avoid, though many people had managed to keep it to a m...

Actually, the situation was intolerable. But then it was surprising how much intolerableness a man c...

I could see why she felt attracted to Sam K. Barrows. Birds of a feather, or rather lizards of a sca...

This is why you shouldn’t hire your friends. It’s all nice and professional until the insubordinatio...

Nothing uses up alcohol faster than political argument.

PU'RIST: one superstitiously nice in the use of words.

Endure for another day, Mister Tannen, and you'll have all the foul black misuse of water you can dr...

I was at a dinner party many years ago,sitting along from Tom Stoppard, who in those days smoked not...

Is there a word for 'total screaming genius' that sounds modest and a tiny bit sexy?

Well, don't expect us to be too impressed. We just saw Finnick Odair in his underwear.

Mistresses, have you ever noticed that when we disagree with a male- I hesitate to say 'man'- or fin...

(About a cookbook...)- What about this one? Maids of Honor?- Weeelll, they starts OUT as Maids of Ho...

If the Good Lord had intended us to crawl, he'd have given us a hundred legs and an exosqueleton.

There was a few seconds' pause. Then Amit said: I meant, what were you thinking just now.When? said ...

I have abstained from expressing any opinion, so far," says Mr. Superintendent, with his military vo...

The first and last weakness of his life, before him again. For a moment he felt himself blinded by h...

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

The literal meaning of life is whatever you're doing that prevents you from killing yourself.

And then the second thing you have to do is go and see your son. That is a duty of love, Andrew. It'...

The trouble with Grace, she thought, is that she is so literal. But that was the trouble with most p...

You'll want something mid-range. A 5.56 all right?""I suppose.""AR-15?""Ugh. AR-15? I'd rather not h...

Ear demons are totally real," Cody said. "They're what make microphones like these ones work. They'r...

Most of you Mistborn are probably too proud to crawl. I'm surprised you were willing to do so your

Kelsier rapped lightly on the door, and Dockson strolled over, pulling it open."And he makes his stu...

I wish you'd stop desperately trying to get my attention like this," he said. "It's become embarrass...

Yes, I kidnapped that Lindberg baby.

I guess it's funny how life turns out?" she tried. "Not last I checked," Errol said with a snort.

What the hell makes you smart?" I asked."I wouldn't go for coffee with you.""Listen - I wouldn't ask...

I am a man of principles, and my first principle is flexibility.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, gra...

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, gra...

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, gra...

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, gra...

Every habit makes our hand more witty, and out wit more handy.

The wittiest authors raise the very slightest of smiles.

As it 'appens, I am Arthur's right-hand man," said Suzy. "Or left-hand girl, I can't remember where ...

Oh, you dear good father!" cried Mary, putting her hands round her father´s neck, while he bent his ...

Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.