A good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.
A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation.
I wish the first word I ever said was the word "quote", so right before I die I could say "unquote".
For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.
A sentence is but a cheveril glove to a good wit; How quickly the wrong side may be turned outward!
Think twice before you speak, and then you may be able to say something more insulting than if you spoke right out at once.
People took the word "clean" out of context. My mother had an expression: "clean as a whistle, sharp as a tack." I inherited her originality.
Wit in conversation is only a readiness of thought and a facility of expression, or a quick conception and an easy delivery.
