For the present, suffice it to say that Miss Bates' witticism was founded on a whimsical view of facts, and that the modern stock company is exclusively responsible for the existence of that amazing anomaly, a hard-working actor.
George Bernard Shaw's witticism when somebody in the gallery hissed while he was making a curtain speech has become famous.
A piquant witticism is not an expression of all this, but simply a travesty.
This witticism of mine host's being exceedingly well received, Paul went, amidst the general laughter, to take possession of the vacant seat beside Long Ned.
Those persons who injure the reputation or position of others for the sake of a witticism deserve to be punished with ignominy; this has not been said before, and I dare say it.
In the course of a few days Sir John learnt that his witticism (unacknowledged) had been made use of as a rejoinder to the insolent message of the dauphin.
Why, then, will ask the puzzled student of national life, does the venerable witticism persist in living?
I asked an attendant to whom I had paid the official fee if my widows would be refunded the money in case of accident; but this antique and tasteless witticism was indifferently received, as it deserved.
This witticism was believed, because of the long friendship between the Italian cantatrice and the young Frenchman.
The latter of these excellent critics mentions a witticism of Flavius Virginius, who asked one of these orators, "Quot nillia assuum deciamassett" How many miles he had declaimed.
Well, then, in return for the witticism I have almost perpetrated, tell me who some of these gentlemen are.
You almost made a witticism just then, do you know?
The witticism produced, as usual, a laugh among the seamen, who continued their remarks in a similar vein, but in tones more suited to the deference due to their superiors.
He remembered how one of his acquaintances, pushed to the wall on this point, wriggled out humorously with the well-known street witticism that he was not a Swedish match.
That witticismon poor Kopovski was repeated throughout Warsaw.
Each had some story, some apropos to tell, or some smart witticism to let off against his neighbor; and to hear them you would say that never was there a subject more suggestive of drollery than the one of suicide and sudden death.
This often aroused sardonic witticism from some of the other students.
I had heard the witticism from him more than once before.
The witticism of Jekyl, the great barrister, made the town laugh on one of these occasions.
An English wit some years afterward perpetrated the same witticism on the occasion of Edmund Burke's leaving the House of Commons in a rage, because he was interrupted in one of his great speeches by a thick-witted country member.
She might have done so had not her hatred blinded her, had she been less intent upon seizing the opportunity at all costs to make Rohan pay for his barbed witticism upon her mother.
To say that in this witticism lay one of the causes of the French Revolution may seem at first glance an outrageous overstatement.
This delightful witticism suited the paternal humor, and Mr. Clay smiled; but, nevertheless, he frowned a moment afterwards.
Salomy Jane smiled over her last witticism regarding him and enjoyed it, like your true humorist, and then, catching sight of her own handsome face in the little mirror, smiled again.
The public looks to him to be a wit and a humorist, with a knowledge of every witticism that ever was made.
It is not sufficient to analyse a witticism and dissect it, in the cold spirit of that terrible book called "A Theory of Wit and Humour," till its humour flies, like the delicate bouquet from uncorked wine.
We are not without our suspicions that this last witticism is a regular Joe Miller, for we have detected it in at least a dozen different publications.
There was something impressive in the recollection that, during the whole of our companionship, he had never uttered one objectionable or uncharitable word, nor attempted any witticism respecting Mrs. Beaudesart.
But let me not hear any small witticism to the further effect that its story is a tale told by a vulgarian, full of slang and blanky, signifying--nothing.
A favourite witticism was for some lout to raise the alarm of "All aboard!
Heine, after a life of sorrow, died with a sparkling witticism on his lips; Vespasian with a jest.
At the time I had no intention of appropriating the witticism as I quite imagined R---- was acquainted with it.
Salomy Jane smiled over her last witticism regarding him and enjoyed, it, like your true humorist, and then, catching sight of her own handsome face in the little mirror, smiled again.
