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10 Brilliant Quotes

by Listverse Writers
fact checked by Alex Hanton

Some of the funniest words are spoken on the spur of the moment. This is a collection of ten brilliant or witty quotes. If you have a favorite witty quote, be sure to put it in the comments for all to enjoy.

1. W. C. Fields

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I always keep a supply of stimulant handy in case I see a snake, which I also keep handy.

And another:

I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.

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2. Oscar Wilde

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I am not young enough to know everything.

And as he was probably one of the most witty men in history, we need another:

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

3. Sir Winston Churchill

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Lady Nancy Astor (to Churchill): “Sir, you’re drunk!”
Churchill: “Yes, Madam, I am. But in the morning, I will be sober and you will still be ugly.”

Churchill and Astor are famous for these repartees, so I have to include a second:

Lady Astor: “If you were my husband, I’d put arsenic in your coffee.”
Churchill: “Madam, if I were your husband, I’d drink it!”


4. Nancy Mitford

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I Love children, especially when they cry for then someone takes them away.

And another:

An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off; it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.

5. Dorothy Parker

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I’ve never been a millionaire but I just know I’d be darling at it.

And:

If all the girls who attended the Yale prom were laid end to end, I wouldn’t be a bit surprised.

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6. Douglas Adams

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In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and is widely regarded as a bad move.

7. Alice Longworth (daughter of Theodore Roosevelt)

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“If you haven’t got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.”


8. Orson Welles

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“In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock.”

9. Margot Asquith

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What a pity, when Christopher Colombus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.

10. Margaret Thatcher

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I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.

fact checked by Alex Hanton
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