bon mot

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a bon mot

a funny or clever remark. Wilde's bons mots are legendary.

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The donjon of Vincennes was considered very unhealthy and Madame de Rambouillet had said that the room in which the Marechal Ornano and the Grand Prior de Vendome had died was worth its weight in arsenic -- a bon mot which had great success. Twenty Years After by Dumas, Alexandre View in context You need not hurry when the object is only to prevent my saying a bon mot, for there is not the least wit in my nature. Mansfield Park by Austen, Jane View in context With my southern temperament, warped by the life I led in Paris, I should certainly have come to look without pity on an unhappy girl betrayed by her lover; I should have laughed at the story if it had been told me by some wag in merry company (for with us in France a clever bon mot dispels all feelings of horror at a crime), but all sophistries were silenced in the presence of this angelic creature, against whom I could bring no least word of reproach. The Country Doctor by de Balzac, Honore View in context More results

References in classic literature

The donjon of Vincennes was considered very unhealthy and Madame de Rambouillet had said that the room in which the Marechal Ornano and the Grand Prior de Vendome had died was worth its weight in arsenic -- a bon mot which had great success.

Twenty Years After by Dumas, Alexandre View in context

You need not hurry when the object is only to prevent my saying a bon mot, for there is not the least wit in my nature.

Mansfield Park by Austen, Jane View in context

With my southern temperament, warped by the life I led in Paris, I should certainly have come to look without pity on an unhappy girl betrayed by her lover; I should have laughed at the story if it had been told me by some wag in merry company (for with us in France a clever bon mot dispels all feelings of horror at a crime), but all sophistries were silenced in the presence of this angelic creature, against whom I could bring no least word of reproach.

The Country Doctor by de Balzac, Honore View in context

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