If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.


K 46 - Aphorisms (1765-1799) - Notebook K (1789-1793)

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Quotes

If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.

If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.

If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.

If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.