I'm hopefully touring with Colin Baker next year in Perfect Strangers. I have performed with Sylvia Simms in poetry and music evenings. I would love to do those for the rest of my career - they are so fun and witty.
No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech.
Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.
You can pretend to be serious; but you can't pretend to be witty.
People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.
It's very witty and it's great to see teenage characters have control that way. And you can actually hear about sex and pot and it's okay, it's not completely bad and you can't say that to teenagers.
Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.
A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual shortcomings.
Your wit makes others witty.
In fact, to gull a fool seems to me an exploit worthy of a witty man.
A large nose is the mark of a witty, courteous, affable, generous and liberal man.
Conquered people tend to be witty.
It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I liked.
Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.