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The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners.

Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.

Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another.

The most mysterious feminine factor, the existence that we men, we don't know. It's woman. It's feminine. That's what the sword is about. That's the symbolic meaning of the sword.

Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.

It is always the same: women bedeck themselves with jewels and furs, and men with wit and quotations.

Women hate everything which strips off the tinsel of sentiment, and they are right, or it would rob them of their weapons.

I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.

Although it has been said by men of more wit than wisdom, and perhaps more malice than either, that women are naturally incapable of acting prudently, or that they are necessarily determined to folly, I must by no means grant it.

I resent it when they write the part of a woman who's just a sexy femme fatale who seduces people to ger her way, perpetrating the myth that that's how woman have to operate, instead of using their brains or their wit.