| The very same words that will be intended and heard as a witticism in one instance may be seen as a grave insult in other circumstances. |
| Few men are more contemptible than the brilliantly censorious critic who is deliberately wounding just for the sake of a witticism. |
| A piquant witticism is not an expression of all this, but simply a travesty. |
| Does Brancusi come closer to the spiritualism of the Shaker society or to the witticism of Duchamp and Dada? |
| Unlike its characters, real mafiosi are just as likely to be podgy and their women plain, and to have never uttered a witticism in their lives. |
| In response to each new sally of witticism, the Indians would break into uncontrollable fits of merriment. |
