bon-mots

Sparkling bon-mots, wry jibes, elegant banter, oh, and gather ‘round the piano everyone, she’s going to sing the song she performed at the Blue Parrot.

Monday Blog Post and the Olympians – The Bleat. 2010

You know, those bon-mots splashed across magazines such as Cosmo and Esquire, breathlessly promising to expose hitherto-unknown secrets to keeping the male/female in your life happy?

Menfolk and their evil ways « Lab Kat 2007

It was a real Dorothy Parker-like affair; the bon-mots were both bitchy and slurred.

Gay Cars: Society and Style Berk, Brett 2009

Offering bon-mots like “She gave up” and “Her eyes say it all,” she is the ultimate in fluff, meaningless commentary.

If I only had a brain…. « Lab Kat 2006

And so the evil Santino, in a slash of scissors and a gnash of cruel bon-mots, lives to sew another day.

Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » The Storytelling Magic of Project Runway, Part 2 2006

They return with a tacit permission to sell and distribute throughout the kingdom their stories; their collection of bon-mots; the life of the unfortunate Régis; the translation of a German poem; new discoveries on eels; a new copy of verses; a treatise on the origin of bells, or on the loves of the toads.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

Yet now she is absolutely governed by a favourite maid, and as full of the bon-mots of her parrots, as 1 used to be of yours, my loves, when YOU were prattlers.

Sir Charles Grandison 2006

Chesterton existed for bon-mots, so I can't finish my Chesterton posts without one.

Even in a little thing gillpolack 2005

He began to think himself, in good earnest, that superior genius which their flattery had described; he cultivated acquaintance with the wits of fashion, and even composed in secret a number of bon-mots, which he uttered in company as the impromptus of his imagination.

The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle 2004

‘Pray, Sir, could you have no redress if you were to prosecute a publisher for bringing out, under your name, what you never said, and ascribing to you dull stupid nonsense, or making you swear profanely, as many ignorant relaters of your bon-mots do?’

The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. 2004