WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Wed, 24 Jun 2026 23:03:29 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg offend – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Burgh, James -- The Dignity of Human Nature, Sec. 5 “Miscellaneous Thoughts on Prudence in Conversation” (1754) https://wist.info/burgh-james/26921/ https://wist.info/burgh-james/26921/#respond Thu, 18 Sep 2014 12:50:19 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=26921 As nothing is more provoking to some tempers than raillery, a prudent person will not always be satirically witty where he can, but only where he may without offence. For he will consider the that the finest stroke of raillery is but a witticism; and that there is hardly any person so mean, whose good will is not preferable to the pleasure of a horse-laugh.


James Burgh (1714-1775) British politician and writer
The Dignity of Human Nature, Sec. 5 “Miscellaneous Thoughts on Prudence in Conversation” (1754)
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