Able Quote by Christian Nestell Bovee

The next best thing to being witty is to quote another's wit.

— Christian Nevell Bovee

Next to being witty yourself, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.

— Christian Nevell Bovee

Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

The next best thing to being clever is being able to quote someone who is.

— Mary Pettibone Poole

To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.

— Andre Maurois

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

— William Shakespeare

“The great drawback of being witty is that you have to keep your eyes fixed on the semi-idiots around you, and absorb their worthless…

— Stendhal

Your wit makes others witty.

— Catherine the Great

If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.

— Stendhal

The art of conversation consists far less in displaying much wit oneself than in helping others to be witty: the man who leaves your…

— Jean de la Bruyere

Truth, when witty, is the wittiest of all things.

— Augustus Hare

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.

— William Shakespeare