Readiness Quote by Antoine Rivarol

The Jews have opened fire, and they are unready to begin a war.

— Moshe Dayan

Shy and unready men are great betrayers of secrets: for there are few wants more urgent for the moment than the want of something…

— Henry Taylor

Books are never out of humour; never envious or jealous, they answer all questions with readiness; ... they teach us how to live and…

— Holbrook Jackson

Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade.

— Noel Coward

“I chase goals, not girls.”

— Amit Kalantri

I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.

— William Shakespeare

“The wittiest authors raise the very slightest of smiles.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There's a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.

— Dorothy Parker

Too much brilliance has its disadvantages, and misplaced wit may raise a laugh, but often beheads a topic of profound interest.

— Margot Asquith

There are as many and innumerable degrees of wit, as there are cubits between this and heaven.

— Michel de Montaigne

A favorite strategy was the paragraph-terminating: Right? Followed immediately by Wrong. This linear invitation to a mugging was considered a strategy of wit.

— Renata Adler

New Year's resolution: To refrain from saying witty, unkind things, unless they are really witty and irreparably damaging.

— James Agate