#witty

My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#could #darker #even #father #humor

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#fool #foolish #than #wit #witty

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

#camel #color #comes #committee #committees

Everything at some point has been declared the root of all evil. ↗

— Criss Jami

#bad #beginning #clever #confusion #declaration

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

— Irvin S. Cobb

#individual #laugh #may #never #own

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

— George Eliot

#devout #exert #people #themselves #who

Writers don't get mad they get even in their novels. ↗

— Candace C. Bowen

#humor-quotes #humorous-quotes #quotes #sarcastic-quotes #witty-quotes

I hope that the kind reader recognises this as a despairing attempt at humour. ↗

— Nancy Springer

#funny #holmes #mysteries #nancy #springer

Witty sayings don’t grow on bumpers the way babies do. I was raised by a single rush hour.
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— Jarod Kintz

#baby #bumper-stickers #cars #family #funny

Nursing does not diminish the beauty of a woman's breasts; it enhances their charm by making them look lived in and happy. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#breastfeeding #nursing #witty #beauty