clever remark

She nicknamed me "Tow-head" in allusion to my light hair, and had always some clever remark to make at my expense.

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

I made what I considered a very clever remark: “Without an original there can be no imitation.”

The astute monarch's calculations were admirably exposed by a clever remark of the Prince of Ballybunion.

A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted, and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a "joke."