Many of his bons mots were little more than blunt vulgarities.
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Tependris, as she flits about fashion shows offering up amusing observations and bons mots.
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The former prime minister and president of Israel was a fountain of seemingly effortless bons mots and poetic musings.
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Mr. Parker, who is fond of bow ties and blunt-force bons mots, apparently did not like her tone.
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Some of the best work in this show plays with other languages to give us glimpses of their clever bons mots.
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Not a real spy, of course, but the movie kind of spy, fighting with fists one moment and bons mots the next.
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One can only imagine what items President Trump might try to seed into Winchell's column or the bons mots Winchell himself would tweet.
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In the daily paper, he's a virtuoso of the short-form judgment, turning out work that's insightful, unfussy, and pyrite-flecked with bons mots.
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He trades his designer shades for boldly framed eyeglasses, turns his gimlet eye on various sculptures and paintings and drops depth-charged bons mots.
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Many of the female characters have been granted the hauteur and bons mots of the Dowager Countess of Grantham; a few of them even have something of the humanity of Mrs. Patmore.
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"My stock in trade has always been working harder than everyone else, and showing them how irrelevant they are," Karl Lagerfeld said of his competitors, and that was one of his kinder bons mots.
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George Clooney in a well-pressed suit, his bons mots tumbling like dice, is never going to be an eyesore, but even the proudest Las Vegan will have tired of the spectacle by now.
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But his book "A Brief History of Time" made him a star beyond his field, and his penchant for dropping bons mots on subjects large and small made him an enduring pop culture figure.
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The best of what he overheard during his visits to the store — 30 or so bons mots — have been emblazoned on a range of items, including postcards, mugs, totes, T-shirts and baseball caps.
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London Theater Reviews LONDON — Just when you've had your fill of epigrams and bons mots, along comes Eve Best to transform a play marinated in wit into one that also allows for gravity and pathos.
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He's a showman, with his flamboyant mustache and knife-edged bons mots, and he needs an audience; watch him gather the hotel guests to narrate the series of deceptions that led to the strangling of Arlena Marshall.
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If Berra, who died in September, is no longer around to offer bons mots like "Ninety percent of this game is half mental" and "You can observe a lot just by watching," then Rodriguez may be a worthy heir.
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One pores over his Op-Eds in The New York Times savoring his insouciant bons mots, which encompass everything from India-Pakistan warmongering ("Schoolyard brawls have a more nuanced buildup") to yoga instructors ("Drill sergeants trapped in poets' bodies").
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In the fourteen years since "Mean Girls" came out—introducing the world to such bons mots as "Stop trying to make 'fetch' happen"—the lives of teen-age girls have become only more fraught, with Snapchat chronicling every after-school power play.
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Instead he remains a supporting character, playing peek-a-boo in his own biography as he tosses off acidic bons mots, skips out on debts and eventually — in fashion's version of Truman Capote's "La Côte Basque, 1965" — alienates the women who made him.
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But so much more clever is the revelation that "knowing it all" inevitably means truly knowing himself, and this book — more than any of the author's others I have read — shows a vulnerability and an honesty and an almost frantic desire to impart to us, before he can no longer, his manic mantras, his obsessive treatises and his biting and blisteringly honest bons mots that are actually really enlightening life lessons.
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The book opens with one of Jameson's most famous bons mots, 'Always historicise!'.Fredric Jameson, The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Social Symbolic Act (London: Methuen, 1981), p. 9.
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The first segment is filmed entirely in silhouette. Welles plays Winston Churchill fielding press questions and then exchanging bons mots with Nancy Astor (Oja Kodar). Each line spoken by Churchill is a well-known witticism commonly attributed to him. Graeme Garden provides narration.
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"good appetite"; "enjoy your meal". ; bon mot (pl. bons mots) : well-chosen word(s), particularly a witty remark ("each bon mot which falls from his lips is analysed and filed away for posterity", The European Magazine, August 29 – September 4, 1996) ; bon vivant: one who enjoys the good life, an epicurean. ; bon voyage: lit.
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Cities is a Canadian documentary television series broadcast on CBC Television from 1979 to 1980."Ustinov bons mots and bulk block view of Leningrad". The Globe and Mail, April 28, 1979. Produced and directed by John McGreevy, the series featured a celebrity who would appear in an episode profiling a personal favourite city or more specific location.
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On 23 December 1689 he was elected to the Académie française; his reception piece was a panegyric on Louis XIV. Three galante works followed, a volume of the latest courtly expressions and the right moves,Des mots à la mode et des nouvelles façons de parler, avec des observations sur diverses manières d'agir et de s'exprimer, et un discours en vers sur les mêmes matières (1692) Republished by Slatkine, Geneva, 1972. one reporting bons mots and witty anecdotes of raileryDes bons mots, des bons contes de leur usage, de la raillerie des anciens, de la raillerie et des railleurs de notre temps (1692) Republished by Slatkine, Geneva, 1971. and one on the bon usage of the French spoken at Court, contrasted with middle-class expressions, for people of quality to avoid.
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The New York Times, 11 March 1893, p. 8 Messager was a dandy and a philanderer. The musical historian D. Kern Holoman describes him as "given to immaculately tailored suits emphasizing his thin frame, careful grooming with particular attention to his mustaches, fine jewelry, and spats ... a witty conversationalist with an inexhaustible store of anecdotes and bons mots" and a womaniser.Holoman, p.
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Rossiter displayed his acid wit in two books: The Devil's Bedside Book (1980),Leonard Rossiter, Devil's Bedside Book, Littlehampton: 1980; a collection of cynical dictionary definitions in the style of Ambrose Bierce's The Devil's Dictionary, and The Lowest Form of Wit (1981), a collection of biting bons mots, stinging retorts, and insults divided into six main sections, illustrated with cartoons by Honeysett and including a definitive guide and a history of sarcasm.
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He continued to discharge the duties of this post until his death in 1715. Besides a number of archaeological works, especially in the department of numismatics, Galland published in 1694 a compilation from the Arabic, Persian, and Turkish, entitled Paroles remarquables, bons mots et maximes des orientaux, and in 1699 a translation from an Arabic manuscript, De l'origine et du progrès du café. The former of these works appeared in an English translation in 1795. His Contes et fables indiennes de Bidpai et de Lokrnan was published posthumously in 1724.
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Wilson called his Hollywood years "a trip through a sewer in a glass-bottomed boat." Several of the brothers' friends from New York, including Marie Dressler and Ben Hecht, helped him in his later escapades. Wilson Mizner is noted for many bons mots such as, "Be nice to people on the way up because you'll meet the same people on the way down," "Never give a sucker an even break" (also attributed to W. C. Fields), and "When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research."Johnson, 1953. p. 66.
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His far more ample prose writings, peppered with many aphorisms and bons mots, reveal a skeptical outlook on human nature, verging on the cynical. His view of state power was broadly liberal insofar as he believed that state power and infringements on the individual should be severely limited. Although he had flirted with nationalist ideas during the 1890s, he moved away from them by 1899, and believed that European culture owed its greatness to the ethnic diversity and universalism of the Roman Empire. He denounced the myth of "racial purity" and argued that such purity, if it existed, would only lead to stagnation—thus the mixing of races was necessary for progress and cultural development.
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The brother of François Le Métel de Boisrobert, d'Ouville had some comedies presented, less remarkable for their versification than by the plot, among others les Trahisons d'Abhiran, a tragicomedy successfully given in 1637. He also authored les nouvelles amoureuses et exemplaires ; Aymer sans sçavoir qui, comedy ; La Coifeuse à la mode, comedy ; les Fausses Véritez, comedy ; les Morts vivants, tragicomedy ; l'Esprit follet, comedy ; la Fouyne de Séville, ou l'hameçon des bourses ; l'Absent chez soy ; l'Élite des contes ; les Contes aux heures perdues ou Le recueil de tous les bons mots, réparties, équivoques du sieur d'Ouville ; Jodelet astrologue, encouraged by Scarron's success. Under his name we also have Tales (2 vol. in-12), partly drawn from Moyen de parvenir which was attributed to his brother.
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Sheet music cover, 1880s Wilde, having tired of journalism, had been busy setting out his aesthetic ideas more fully in a series of longer prose pieces which were published in the major literary-intellectual journals of the day. In January 1889, The Decay of Lying: A Dialogue appeared in The Nineteenth Century, and Pen, Pencil and Poison, a satirical biography of Thomas Griffiths Wainewright, in The Fortnightly Review, edited by Wilde's friend Frank Harris. Two of Wilde's four writings on aesthetics are dialogues: though Wilde had evolved professionally from lecturer to writer, he retained an oral tradition of sorts. Having always excelled as a wit and raconteur, he often composed by assembling phrases, bons mots and witticisms into a longer, cohesive work.
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Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a score of 53% based on 120 reviews. Metacritic gives the film a score of 58% based on reviews from 28 critics. Colm Andrew of the Manx Independent gave the film 7/10 and said it was "a frothy affair but the source material is good—the script is workmanlike but at least it doesn't try to be clever and the quality of the acting makes sure the lines resonate soundly".Review by Colm Andrew, IOM Today Some critics felt that the movie’s insistent jazz-age lilt is ultimately at odds with a play written in 1924 that attacks the hypocrisy, smugness and benighted values of the English landed gentry between the wars. The screenplay includes scattered Coward bons mots, but the witticisms don’t come as thick or as fast as in his later plays.
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"Alain Chartier" by Edmund Blair Leighton, depicting the kiss Artist's impression of Alain Chartier, 19th century. The story of the famous kiss bestowed by Margaret of Scotland on la précieuse bouche de laquelle sont issus et sortis tant de bons mots et vertueuses paroles ('The invaluable mouth from which issued and which left so many witty remarks and virtuous words') is mythical, for Margaret did not come to France till 1436, after the poet's death; but the story, first told by Guillaume Bouchet in his Annales d'Aquitaine (1524), is interesting, if only as a proof of the high degree of estimation in which the ugliest man of his day was held. Jean de Masies, who annotated a portion of his verse, has recorded how the pages and young gentlemen of that epoch were required daily to learn by heart passages of his Breviaire des nobles. John Lydgate studied him affectionately.
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The first book is devoted to an inquiry as to the origin of the Saturnalia and the festivals of Janus, which leads to a history and discussion of the Roman calendar, and to an attempt to derive all forms of worship from that of the Sun. The second book begins with a collection of bons mots, to which all present make their contributions, many of them being ascribed to Cicero and Augustus; a discussion of various pleasures, especially of the senses, then seems to have taken place, but almost the whole of this is lost. The third, fourth, fifth and sixth books are devoted to Virgil, dwelling respectively on his learning in religious matters, his rhetorical skill, his debt to Homer (with a comparison of the art of the two) and to other Greek writers, and the nature and extent of his borrowings from the earlier Latin poets. The latter part of the third book is taken up with a dissertation upon luxury and the sumptuary laws intended to check it, which is probably a dislocated portion of the second book.
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