Readiness Quote by Antoine Rivarol Download Open image “There is nothing so unready as readiness of wit.” — Antoine Rivarol ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Readiness Wit
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinction. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Wit in conversation is only a readiness of thought and a facility of expression, or a quick conception and an easy delivery. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise. — Novalis Copy Share Image
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A small degree of wit, accompanied by good sense, is less tiresome in the long run than a great amount of wit without it. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Wit must be without effort. Wit is play, not work; a nimbleness of the fancy, not a laborious effort of the will; a license,… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Wit is that which has been often thought, but never before was well expressed. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Whatever has "wit enough to keep it sweet" defies corruption and outlasts all time; but the wit must be of that outward and visible… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Wit, to be well defined, must be defined by wit itself; then it will be worth listening to. — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
The modest man has everything to gain, and the arrogant man everything to lose; for modesty has always to deal with generosity, and arrogance… — Antoine Rivarol Copy Share Image
Youth is not the era of wisdom; let us therefore have due consideration. — Antoine Rivarol Copy Share Image
Opinions, theories, and systems pass by turns over the grindstone of time, which at first gives them brilliancy and sharpness, but finally wears them… — Antoine Rivarol Copy Share Image
The most civilized people are as near to barbarism as the most polished steel is to rust. Nations, like metals, have only a superficial… — Antoine Rivarol Copy Share Image
The woman who too easily and ardently yielded her devotion will find that its vitality, like a bright fire, soon consumes itself. — Antoine Rivarol Copy Share Image
Of every ten persons who talk about you, nine will say something bad, and the tenth will say something good in a bad way. — Antoine Rivarol Copy Share Image
Familiarity is the root of the closest friendships, as well as the intensest hatreds — Antoine Rivarol Copy Share Image
Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future. — Antoine Rivarol Copy Share Image
The subtle sauce of malice is often indulged in by maidens of uncertain age, over their tea. — Antoine Rivarol Copy Share Image
How could a readiness for war in time of peace be safely prohibited, unless we could prohibit, in like manner, the preparations and establishments… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The worthiness of any cause is not measured by its clean record, but by its readiness to see the blots when they are pointed… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“But let the wise be warned against too great readiness at explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It is true that the virtues which are less esteemed and practiced now--independence, self-reliance, and the willingness to bear risks, the readiness to back… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
A readiness to resent injuries is a virtue only in those who are slow to injure. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
The world is full of vulgar Purists, who bring discredit on all selection by the silliness of their choice; and this the more, because… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
A method of child-rearing is not--or should not be--a whim, a fashion or a shibboleth. It should derive from an understanding of the developing… — Selma Fraiberg Copy Share Image
The nature of encounter operations required of the commanders limitless initiative and constant readiness to take the responsibility for military actions. — Georgy Zhukov Copy Share Image
The higher man is distinguished from the lower by his fearlessness and his readiness to challenge misfortune. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Suspending moral judgment is not the immorality of the novel; it is its morality. The morality that stands against the ineradicable human habit of… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
