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

Seward, however, consoled himself with the clever remark, that there is no great difference between an elected president of the United States and an hereditary monarch.

From Great Britain and the American Civil War by Adams, Ephraim Douglass

Whenever one made a rather clever remark, or smoothed to glossiness a particularly rumpled feather, he wagged his short tail vigorously from side to side in satisfaction.

From The Killer by White, Stewart Edward

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)

You don't at all resemble all of us; you know everything; for everything that turns up you have a good, clever remark ...

From Yama: the pit by Guerney, Bernard Guilbert