Emotion Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to be able to quote another's wit.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

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

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

You will miss a normal life while living a successful life, but not as much as the craving for a successful life while you…

— Amit Kalantri

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

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