| The proper response to a compliment is explicit gratitude, not a cynical, shrugging witticism. |
| There is a hackneyed witticism about crofts being little pieces of land surrounded by regulations. |
| Never lacking in witticism or verbal dexterity, they have sketched vocal portraits of their fellowmen and women woth humour and tenderness. |
| Few men are more contemptible than the brilliantly censorious critic who is deliberately wounding just for the sake of a witticism. |
| 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. |
| Does Brancusi come closer to the spiritualism of the Shaker society or to the witticism of Duchamp and Dada? |
