1. Home
  2. Education
  3. Quotations

Witty Quotes

Add Some Zing to Your Speech with These Witty Quotes

By Simran Khurana, About.com

Wit is the ability to present the truth without calling it that. It is an extremely evolved form of speech though there are many who consider it to be the lowest form of humor. Nonetheless, we all know that many a difficult point can be made using wit. Here are a few witty quotes that make a point without necessarily seeming to do so.

Oscar Wilde
I can resist everything except temptation.

Joan Rivers
If God wanted us to bend over he'd put diamonds on the floor.

Kin Hubbard
No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone; any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech.

Jim Morrison
There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors.

Karl Marx
Catch a man a fish and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.

Oscar Wilde
It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly.

Mark Twain
Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

Jerome K. Jerome
It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar.

Friedrich Nietzsche
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

Oscar Wilde
I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

Explore Quotations

More from About.com

  1. Home
  2. Education
  3. Quotations
  4. Funny Quotes
  5. Witty Quotes

©2008 About.com, a part of The New York Times Company.

All rights reserved.