clever remark
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One clever remark read, “My favorite Star Wars memory would have to be the time Disney tried to lay legal claim to every tweet on Twitter that used a particular hashtag.”
From Slate • Apr. 30, 2020
I made what I considered a very clever remark: “Without an original there can be no imitation.”
From Diary of a Nobody by Grossmith, George
"That is an exceedingly clever remark of yours, young lady," Rawlins smiled.
From The Crimson Blind by White, Fred M. (Fred Merrick)
The astute monarch's calculations were admirably exposed by a clever remark of the Prince of Ballybunion.
From Burlesques by Thackeray, William Makepeace
Auber said: "You must not forget that Rochefort would rather sell his soul than lose an occasion to make a clever remark."
From In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters by Hegermann-Lindencrone, L. de (Lillie de)