Definition of Witty

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Definition of Witty

Witty

Possessed of wit; knowing; wise; skillful; judicious; clever; cunning.

Especially, possessing wit or humor; good at repartee; droll; facetious; sometimes, sarcastic; as, a witty remark, poem, and the like.

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Witty Quotations

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
William Shakespeare

A witty saying proves nothing.
Voltaire

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Witty Translations

witty in Dutch is snedig, gevat, geestig, ad rem
witty in French is spirituel
witty in German is witzig, geistreich, witzige
witty in Hungarian is szellemes
witty in Latin is lepidus, salsus
witty in Spanish is ingenioso
witty in Swedish is spirituell, kvick

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