Quotes on Witty

It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.

I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.

Give me a museum and I'll fill it.

I do this real moron thing, and it's called thinking. And apparently I'm not a very good American because I like to form my own opinions.

My mother loved children - she would have given anything if I had been one.

Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind. The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another.

I'm a woman of very few words, but lots of action.

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and does.

I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.

A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.

Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.

Observe it, the vulgar often laugh, but never smile, whereas well-bred people often smile, and seldom or never laugh. A witty thing never excited laughter, it pleases only the mind and never distorts the countenance.

Beauty without wit offers nothing but the enjoyment of its material charms, whilst witty ugliness captivates by the charms of the mind, and at last fulfils all the desires of the man it has captivated.

This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever.

Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?

The naked truth is always better than the best-dressed lie.

Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable.

Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.

I am so busy doing nothing... that the idea of doing anything - which as you know, always leads to something - cuts into the nothing and then forces me to have to drop everything.

Part of what makes a language 'alive' is its constant evolution. I would hate to think Britain would ever emulate France, where they actually have a learned faculty whose job it is to attempt to prevent the incursion of foreign words into the language. I love editing Harry with Arthur Levine, my American editor-the differences between 'British English' (of which there must be at least 200 versions) and 'American English' (ditto!) are a source of constant interest and amusement to me.