Truth, when witty, is the wittiest of all things.

“The wittiest authors raise the very slightest of smiles.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Advertising companies hire the very brightest, wittiest young people to write for them. Not one single sentence of it is worth repeating. Why? Because…

— Brenda Ueland

Here's to the prettiest, here's to the wittiest, here's to the truest of all who are true, here's to the neatest one, here's to…

— Anonymous

Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If evolution was worth its salt, by now it should've evolved something better than survival of the fittest. I think a better idea would…

— Jane Wagner

The wittiest authors evoke a barely perceptible smile.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Thank your readers and the critics who praise you, and then ignore them. Write for the most intelligent, wittiest, wisest audience in the universe:…

— Harlan Ellison

Instead of working for the survival of the fittest, we should be working for the survival of the wittiest - then we can all…

— Lily Tomlin

Tis never for their wisdom that one loves the wisest, or for their wit that one loves the wittiest; 'tis for benevolence and virtue…

— Hester Lynch Piozzi

I usually say I write for the smartest, cleverest, wittiest audience I know, and that's me.

— Harlan Ellison

There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect. Men do not quarrel about the meaning…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I have a fantastic husband. Here's the honeymoon part: I still think he's the funniest, wittiest, most clever man I've ever known.

— Sarah Jessica Parker

I own four copies of Robin WIlliams's Live on Broadway comedy special for HBO. One in Wilmington, one in L.A., one in my trailer,…

— Sophia Bush

Already known as one of America’s best and wittiest poets, William Trowbridge has, in Ship of Fool, found the perfect vessel to convey his…

— Charles Harper Webb

Have you ever rightly considered what the mere ability to read means? That it is the key which admits us to the whole world…

— James Russell Lowell