Quotes on Witty

Years ago, I tried to top everybody, but I don't anymore. I realized it was killing conversation. When you're always trying for a topper you aren't really listening. It ruins communication

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

If women dressed for men, the stores wouldn't sell much - just an occasional sun visor.

If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull.

There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.

The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

Gentlemen, listen to me slowly.

Our comedies are not to be laughed at.

Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

I have had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.

The middle class is doing fine in fiction. But it's not what gets me going. I love the working class, and everyone from it I've met, and think they're incredibly witty, inventive - there's a lot of poetry there.

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

You never find yourself until you face the truth.

I think the single biggest thing that money gave me-and obviously I came from a place where I was a single mother and it really was hand to mouth at one point. It was literally as poor as you can get in Britain without being homeless at one point. If you've ever been there you will never, ever take for granted that you don't need to worry. Never.

I am like a Rolls- Royce. I can run without an engine, purely on reputation

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

So, my unsolicited advice to women in the workplace is this. When faced with sexism, or ageism, or lookism, or even really aggressive Buddhism, ask yourself the following question: “Is this person in between me and what I want to do?” If the answer is no, ignore it and move on. Your energy is better used doing your work and outpacing people that way. Then, when you’re in charge, don’t hire the people who were jerky to you.

Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.

The devil's most devilish when respectable.

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.