Sentence examples for witty sayings from inspiring English sources

The juxtaposition with the terse and witty sayings of Mr. Kurtag was unfortunate.

This and his other plays, Comédia Ulissipo (published 1618) and Comédia Aulegrafia (published 1619), resembled La Celestina in form and contained a treasury of popular lore and wise and witty sayings introduced with a moral purpose.

By his own guess, he wrote perhaps one out of every ten; the rest he found in books, especially anthologies like Thomas Fuller's 1732 "Gnomologia: Adagies and Proverbs; Wise Sentences and Witty Sayings Ancient and Modern, Foreign and British".

The visually impaired may want to take their distance glasses; otherwise, some of the witty sayings on the screen at the back of the stage could look like line 18 of the eye chart.

I'm like, I mean it, our entire witty sayings notebook collection is at risk, Dave's like, was there anything else, I need to practise bonding, what do you think of my *smiles weirdly* super-approachable colleague face, and *grimaces* this is my *keen theatregoer* one.

Well it's kind of a wagon, you should look on Pinterest, you can have a plain table, but Nick's mother says, do you want to go to another wedding and see an amazing candy cart, and think, why in God's name didn't I listen to my mother-in-law and get a decent cart while I had the chance, and decorate it with organic flowers and our wedding hashtag and witty sayings about marriage?

And this may explain why she consented to the problematic project of the "Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings".

So why did Eliot agree to the publication of "Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings" in the first place?

In 1871, a young admirer named Alexander Main published a collection titled "Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse Selected from the Works of George Eliot".

I can think of no surer way to be put off the work of George Eliot than by trying to read the "Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings".

My copy of "Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings," which I bought a few years ago from a secondhand bookseller, is the tenth edition, from 1896, which gives Main an enviably long time on the back-list.