bon mot

Chop up two-thirds of the dialogue into bon mots and it’d make a great book of inspirational quotes, the sort of thing a thoughtful auntie would slip into a kid’s stocking at Christmas.

Yet it’s also, via Hart’s acerbic bon mots, an incisive exploration of two opposing views of art.

Most cards include cryptic, sometimes multilingual bon mots written with his beloved Sumi-e brush pens.

Would you say you enjoy when one of these bon mots blows up?

Nericcio is usually quick to a bon mot, but his worrisome tone when we talked was something I had never heard in the 15 years we’ve known each other.