I hope he is a pretty fellow, and can turn a merry quip and tell a story.
Quip had followed quip until in their jests they transcended all bounds.
They weigh my answer with his argument, Match quip with quibble, wit with eloquence?
We get a word picture of a barber's shop in Greene's "Quip for an Upstart Courtier," published in 1592.
In the controversy respecting the immortality of fairies, Mr. Ritson's ingenious and decisive reply in his Quip modest ought on every account to have been introduced.
He searched his brain now for some clever quip that would strike sparks from the adamantine mood which for the moment it was her whim to assume.
And when you miss the quipand wanton wile, And learn you can't endure the Towerless season, O William, I shall not be petty .
Quip and repartee and merry tale and polished phrase were all at my tongue's end, and no one could have been more amazed than I at my own brilliancy.
Touchstone, with unfailing loyalty, follows his master with quip and quirk, into exile.
Then Robin tossed aside his trusty blade, an' laying bare his knotted arm, approached the dastardly ruffian with many a merry quip and jest, prepared for the fierce death-grip.
The shadow falls; so long we rest In graves, where is no quip or jest.
There is sunshine yet, The gloom that promised, let's forget, The quip and jest are on the wing, Why sorrow when we ought to sing?
In his "Quip for an upstart courtier," 1592, Greene had spoken irreverently of Harvey's low extraction.
Not a little terrified, they are chased in by the crowd, who bid them "banish your timidity and with all rapidity give us quip and quiddity.
Footnote 33: Greene in his Quip for an Upstart Courtier says, 'to square it up and downe the streetes before his mistresse.
What he says is of no matter, it is the twist he gives to it, the intonation, the personality he puts into his quip or retort or observation that delights his hearers, and in his case the ordinary rules do not apply.
The exuberance of the retailer of verbal gossip eliminates the implication of scandals but both quip and gossip become deadly poison when transferred permanently to paper.
The light jesting tone that saves a quip from offense can not be expressed; and remarks that if spoken would amuse, can but piqué and even insult their subject.
Guido Cavalcanti by a quipmeetly rebukes certain Florentine gentlemen who had taken him at a disadvantage.
If I sent him word again it was not well cut, he would send me word he cut it to please himself: this is called theQuip modest.
Twas a pretty piece of foolery you played on the monster and us, but quip for quirk, my merry wag!
But did he then love God, or was it only the music, as an impudent priest said to him one day in jest, without thinking of the unhappiness which his quip might cause in him?
He picked his words carefully, stopped awkwardly in the middle of a sentence, and extricated himself with a quip which made everybody laugh.
And though the verbal quip may be 'old as the hills,' the joke may present a face fresh as that of a young maiden and bear a meaning merry as her eyes.
For a true pun always has a humorous idea behind the verbal quip that is its prominent characteristic.
