Wit and Charm Quotes

When it comes to culture, I'm sort of like Nostradamus if he'd been a handsome, witty minor celebrity with a great head of hair instead of a crusty old dude from the olden days.

I love this book! Cathy Malkasian's Percy Gloom swirls with echoes of cartoon landscapes from the past and present. You can almost hear Percy Gloom's meek, docile little voice. Her writing is so full of wit and charm that we, like the title character, walk dutifully to the edge and fall in. And like Percy, we are rewarded equally with night terrors and secret treasures.

Passion - and humor will permit all of us to do some marvelous things.

It is by vivacity and wit that man shines in company; but trite jokes and loud laughter reduce him to a buffoon.

My sons the same, hes terribly funny. Its a wonderful power to have. Its also fantastically disarming. Women find it unbelievably disarming. You can say the most astonishing things if youre funny. You can tell a woman that shes irresistibly attractive, but do it in such a funny way.

I like being a funny lady. I think theres nothing sexier than a funny lady.

Wit is the key, I think, to anybody's heart, because who doesn't like to laugh?

You want to make an impression. Being clever helps.

It's best if you can do things with a sense of humor and finesse.

Biffy said, off the cuff, "Or we could find a replacement queen." "Volunteering for the position?" "Why, Professor, is that wittiness I detect?" "Only for you." "Charmer." Biffy tapped him on the arm playfully.

I don't have any powers other than the power of sex. And humor.

Women ought not to know their own wit, because they will still be showing it, and so spoil it.

Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.

I do think funny is like sexy. You're either funny and sexy, or you're not.

The quality of wit inspires more admiration than confidence

Your wit is always such a delight, Mr. Zeklos. I can barely contain myself around it.

You can get away with saying much more with humor than you can with a straight face.

Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinction. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit. It is like ice, on which no beauty of form, no majesty of carriage, can plead any immunity; they must walk gingerly, according to the laws of ice, or down they must go, dignity and all.

I like girls who are intelligent, somewhat funny, and pretty with a nice personality.

I think that a sense of humor of an actor comes through most of the time. Maybe some actors have less than others, and I have it, I think. It's my nature.

Someone who gossips well has a reputation for being good company or even a wit, never for being a gossip.

I've always been a fan of a Johnny Carson because he was so great with an audience and not afraid of self-deprecating humor.

I had always been a great talker and teller of tales. 'You should put a lock on that tongue of yours. It's long enough and sharp enough to slit your own throat,' our guardian warned me, the night before I left home to go to the royal court at Versailles ... I just laughed. 'Don't you know a woman's tongue is her sword? You wouldn't want me to let my only weapon rust, would you?

Better the fragrant herb of wit and a little cream of affability than all the pretty cups in the world.