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

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

At first I thought she had made an apt and clever remark; but on thinking it over I couldn't quite see its relevancy.

From Police!!! by Hutt, Henry

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

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