Apprehension Quote by Sylvia Plath

If someone makes you feel wrong-footed, you're unlikely to find them witty.

— Rosamund Pike

I would try to be super-assertive in meetings and, you know, pound my hand off the table, and it never ended well. People would…

— Peggy Johnson

“The great drawback of being witty is that you have to keep your eyes fixed on the semi-idiots around you, and absorb their worthless…

— Stendhal

GENTLE READER: You, sir, are an anarchist, and Miss Manners is frightened to have anything to do with you. It is true that questioning…

— Judith Martin

Fashionably amusing table manners are a matter of breaking the right rule at the right time.

— P. J. O'Rourke

In life, if you have an enthusiasm for what they call 'good manners,' sometimes people don't quite believe you. I've had that once or…

— Bill Nighy

I played a lot of sarcastic, wisecracking characters for a long time, and people would think that was me. And it's very much not…

— Zooey Deschanel

You need to quickly recognize when and why you're being spooned bullshit. That happens very often, but it happens for a reason.

— David Weigel

Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness.

— Dorothy Parker

Your wits make others witty.

— Catherine the Great

“Stupid people will mistake your confidence for arrogance.”

— Habeeb Akande

The more wit you have, the more good nature you must show, to induce people to pardon your superiority, for that is no easy…

— Bill Vaughan