"The wittiest authors raise the very slightest of smiles."

Wit, Humor, Art, Life

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"My mother-in-law belongs in Hell, but the devil is afraid she'll end up taking over."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"His foe was folly and his weapon wit."

Anthony Hope, British Writer

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"Because if you've got the wit, you can make anything into a melody, ultimately."

Gerry Mulligan, American Musician

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"Take a pinch of snuff, doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over you in your example."

Arthur Conan Doyle, British Writer

Wit, Competition, Example, Humor

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

Noel Coward, English Playwright

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"This is a lot more satisfying," he said, "when I have intelligent life whom I can render awed, rapt with attention for my clever verbosity."The ugly lizard-crab-thing on the next rock over clicked its claw, an almost hesitant sound."Your right, of course," Wit said. "My usual audience isn't particularly intelligent. That was also the obvious joke, however, so shame on you."

Brandon Sanderson, American Author

Wit, Humor, Intelligence, Audience, Communication

"The Cardinal is at his wit's end - it is true that he had not far to go."

Lord Byron, British Poet

Wit, End

"I'm keeping my acerbic wit completely fueled."

Janice Dickinson, American Model

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"She complains that I'm lazy, but I just like to save my energy for dinner."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it."

James Boswell, Scottish Lawyer

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Explore more quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

"Popular medicine and popular morality belong together and ought not to be evaluated so differently as they still are: both are the most dangerous pseudo-sciences."

Society

"Remain true to the earth, my brethren, with the power of your virtue! Let your bestowing love and your knowledge be devoted to be the meaning of the earth! . . . Let it not fly away from the earthly and beat against eternal walls with its wings. . . . Lead, like me, the flown-away virtue back to the earth-yes, back to body and life: that it may give to the earth its meaning, a human meaning!"

Spiritual

"The believer in magic and miracles reflects on how to impose a law on nature--: and, in brief, the religious cult is the outcome of this reflection."

Philosophy

"Idleness is the parent of psychology."

Psychology

"It is invisible hands that torment and bend us the worst."

Struggle

"There is only a perspective seeing, only a perspective "knowing"; and the more affects we allow to speak about one thing, the more eyes, different eyes, we can use to observe one thing, the more complete will our "concept" of this thing, our "objectivity," be."

Knowledge

"All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?"

Truth

"Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present."

Existence

"The Great Man... is colder, harder, less hesitating, and without fear of 'opinion'; he lacks the virtues that accompany respect and 'respectability,' and altogether everything that is the 'virtue of the herd.' If he cannot lead, he goes alone... He knows he is incommunicable: he finds it tasteless to be familiar... When not speaking to himself, he wears a mask. There is a solitude within him that is inaccessible to praise or blame."

Strength

"War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives."

Power