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“I was going to write a sharp witty email full of devastating one-liners but I suspect you want something nicer than that”
“They are fond of fun and therefore witty, wit being well-bred insolence.”
“Jordan, there isn't a straight woman or gay man alive who wouldn't drop everything to have dinner with you. I've been in this business for all of my life, and I know the difference between people w...”
“How do you feel about going on a date with me? I'm abroad for another two weeks; you've got plenty of time to prepare yourself. It will be the best night of your life, of course.”
“You will find her manners beyond anything I can describe; and your wit and vivacity, I think, must be acceptable to her, especially when tempered with the silence and respect which her rank will in...”
“Irrevocable as a haircut.”
“Men never think their fortunes too great nor their wit too little.”
“The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself.”
“Too caustic? To hell with cost we'll make the picture anyhow. Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg. We have all passed a lot of water since then.”
“When I appear in public people expect me to neigh grind my teeth paw the ground and swish my tail - none of which is easy.”
“Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things which differ and the difference of things which are alike.”
“Melancholy men are of all others the most witty.”
“If you want to be witty work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.”
“The well of true wit is truth itself.”
“A brilliant epigram is a solemn platitude gone to a masquerade ball.”
“What is perfectly true is perfectly witty.”
“Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.”
“True wit is Nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought but ne'er so well express'd.”
“A man often runs the risk of throwing away a witticism if he admits that it is his own.”
“Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.”
