Witty Quotes
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The coffee is prepared in such a way that it makes those who drink it witty: at least there is not a single soul who,…
— Baron de Montesquieu
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Sir, money, money, the most charming of all things; money, which will say more in one moment than the most elegant lover can in years.…
— Henry Fielding
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The discovery of the good taste of bad taste can be very liberating. The man who insists on high and serious pleasures is depriving himself…
— Susan Sontag
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If the reason for climbing Mt. Everest is that it's hard to do, why does everyone go up the easy side?
— George Carlin
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Nobody thanks a witty man for politeness when he puts himself on a par with a society in which it would not be polite to…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The best material model of a cat is another, or preferably the same, cat.
— Norbert Wiener
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If inflation continues to soar, you're going to have to work like a dog just to live like one
— George Gobel
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If I am not worth the wooing, I am surely not worth the winning.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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We cannot see how the evidence afforded by the unquestioned progressive development of organised existence-crowned as it has been by the recent creation of the…
— George Julius Poulett Scrope
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Habit is a form of exercise.
— Elbert Hubbard
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Your wits make others witty.
— Catherine the Great
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There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature - the malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
— Francis Bacon
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Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable.
— Joseph Addison
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I think the single biggest thing that money gave me-and obviously I came from a place where I was a single mother and it really…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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I would be a liar if I said I don't care [about my appearance]; yes, I care. I found it very difficult, when I first…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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You can choose, you can go one of two ways. You can be the person I probably admire more and say 'well I don't care…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Whatever money you might have, self-worth really lies in finding out what you do best.
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Years ago someone wrote [about me]: 'She characterizes Molly Weasley as a mother who is only at home looking after the children.' I was deeply…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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I believe in free will. Of those that, like us, are in a privileged situation at least. For you, for me: people who are living…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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