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

He said, at last: "These Boer dances are very low things;" and then, as soon as it had gone from him, he thought it was not a clever remark, and wished it back.

From The Story of an African Farm, a novel by Schreiner, Olive

"Yes, that wasn't a clever remark," said Alexandra.

From The Idiot by Martin, Eva M.

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)

A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted, and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a "joke."

From The Devil's Dictionary by Bierce, Ambrose