witty quotes

Conquered people tend to be witty.

- Saul Bellow
  Mr Sammler's Planet, ch.2.

Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind; Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave. I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned.

- Edna St Vincent Millay
  The Buck in the Snow,'Dirge Without Music'.

A little shorter than the Washington monument, erect, elegant, dogmatic, and ironically witty.

-James B(arrett) Reston
  Of Secretary of State Dean Acheson. Deadline.

Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.

-James Grover Thurber
  Letter to Malcolm Cowley,11 Mar.