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No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech.

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

-Francis Bacon

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A witty woman is a treasure a witty beauty is a power.

-George Meredith

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Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.

-Christian Nestell Bovee

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I think that Obama is very cool. And I think he's clever, and I think he can be witty. But I don't think he's funny in either the way that Reagan was funny - or John McCain and Dick Cheney are both funny in that ruthless, kind of mean way.

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I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things: disease and death... I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals.

-Emma Thompson

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Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.

-James Thurber

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My mother was a terrific force in my life. Wartime-generation woman, hadn't gone to university but should have done. Was very funny, very verbal, very clever, very witty.

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

-Maurice Sendak

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Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.

-Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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

-William Congreve

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Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.

-Thomas Hobbes

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The middle class is doing fine in fiction. But it's not what gets me going. I love the working class, and everyone from it I've met, and think they're incredibly witty, inventive - there's a lot of poetry there.

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I'm hopefully touring with Colin Baker next year in Perfect Strangers. I have performed with Sylvia Simms in poetry and music evenings. I would love to do those for the rest of my career - they are so fun and witty.

-Louise Jameson

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It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

-Honore de Balzac

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Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.

-Albert Schweitzer

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