Famous quotes containing the word witty:
“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 (1894–1961)
“I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in
other men.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Your reasons at dinner have been sharp and sententious, pleasant without scurrility, witty without affection, audacious without impudency, learned without opinion, and strange without heresy.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)