Humor Quote by Truman Capote

“A woman who has a sense of humor possesses no refuge from the merciless truth about herself. She cannot think herself misunderstood. She cannot…

— L.M. Montgomery

A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual shortcomings.

— Irvin S. Cobb

“This was because she knew few words and believed in none, and in the world she was rather silent, contributing just her share of…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“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

“Her conversation often revealed that behind her smiles, height, blonde hair and grasp of fashion lay a wit that was severely lacking.”

— D.M. Andrews

Among the Diaries beginning with the second quarter of our century, there is frequent mention of a lady then becoming famous for her beauty…

— George Meredith

“Looking back, I imagine that I was very odd, that I spoke too loudly, or that I said nothing when things of popular culture…

— Elizabeth Strout

“She was in no humour for conversation with anyone but himself; and to him she had hardly courage to speak.”

— Jane Austen

“A clever girl may pass through the phase of foolish miss on the way to sensible woman.”

— Mary Lascelles

The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers…

— Florence King

“Humor and sensitivity are the man's best qualities to earn the heart of a woman.”

— Anoir Ou-Chad

There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan