'I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.'

Figaro, the wittiest of the French periodicals, and at that time on the liberal side, commended the Bravo; the journals on the side of the government censured it.

Who was so brave, who was so handsome, generous, witty as Clive?

Its general effect is extraordinary and objectionable; but, unfortunately for what merit it really possesses, many of its assailants have so far disregarded the just principles of taste and criticism, as to go laboriously out of their way to be profanely witty on its defects.

We now being wittier than himself, that has lost his wits, have our mind made up to bring it away.

I wish the physicians had kept that a secret, it lieth so ready for him to be witty with.

This evening, over our glowing pipes, and in the enjoyment of a glass of good German beer, we also can be just as witty at the expense of Versailles and the entire French cabinet.

Sixtus paid him the sum, and then, saying that he had indeed promised him his life, but not freedom from punishment, ordered his hands to be cut off, and his tongue to be bored, "to prevent him from being so witty for the future."

It was novel in form and in spirit; it was sprightly without being frivolous, witty without being indecent, keen without being libelous or malicious.

Lively and witty by nature, with all the acquired habits of an adventurer, whose wanderings, military and political, left him time neither for profound reflection nor for deep study, the restored monarch's literary taste, which was by no means contemptible, was directed towards a lighter and more pleasing style of poetry than the harsh and scholastic productions of Donne and Cowley.

I fear you won't get anything very wise or witty from me.

No one was witty like grandmamma and the Marquis, but every one was in a good temper and it was gay.

"Being witty out of season, is one sort of folly.

"Youyou go back to France by the next boat!" and the Babe perceived to his horror that he had been witty to an Assistant Provost-Marshal!

"O be not witty: none of us is bound to be witty under penalties.

I say with sisterly candor, "when you put your head round the school-room door, and found that you had been witty about him to his face!" Bobby reddens, and aims a bit of mortar at a round-eyed robin that has perched near us.