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It's very witty and it's great to see teenage characters have control that way. And you can actually hear about sex and pot and it's okay, it's not completely bad and you can't say that to teenagers.
Caroline Dhavernas

Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.
Francis Bacon

Many a witty inspiration is like the surprising reunion of befriended thoughts after a long separation.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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

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

No, sir, I'm not saying that charming, witty and warm copy won't sell. I'm just saying I've seen thousands of charming, witty campaigns that didn't sell.
Rosser Reeves

Nothing is more witty and grotesque than ancient mythology and Christianity; that is because they are so mystical.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.
Jane Austen

People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.
George Eliot

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

The characters can't be wittier than people are in real life. They have to be character witty.
Dylan Moran

The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners.
Florence King

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

They sit there in committees day after day, And they each put in a color and it comes out gray. And we all have heard the saying, which is true as well as witty, That a camel is a horse that was designed by a committee.
Allan Sherman

This is one of his most human and most amusing and witty novels. The characters are very Indian. I decided that I wanted to do a comedy, so this was just the right one.
Ismail Merchant

Though lust do masque in ne'er so strange disguise she's oft found witty, but is never wise.
John Webster

To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.
Andre Maurois

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

Witty inspirations are the proverbs of the educated.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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