A large nose is in fact the sign of an affable man, good, courteous, witty, liberal, courageous, such as I am.
Edmond Rostand

A large nose is the mark of a witty, courteous, affable, generous and liberal man.
Cyrano de Bergerac

A witty saying proves nothing.
Voltaire

A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.
George Meredith

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

A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.
George Dennison Prentice

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

As soon as she gets her divorce one of us is going to marry her. We don't know which. She is about as beautiful a woman as I ever saw, and very witty and well-informed, but it would cost a good deal to keep her in diamonds.
Richard H. Davis

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
William Shakespeare

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

Conquered people tend to be witty.
Saul Bellow

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

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

Generally speaking, there is more wit than talent in the world. Society swarms with witty people who lack talent.
Antoine Rivarol

I fear nothing so much as a man who is witty all day long.
Madame de Sevigne

I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I liked.
David Bailey

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

If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

In fact, to gull a fool seems to me an exploit worthy of a witty man.
Giacomo Casanova

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