Nothing evokes the prurient like puritanism.

Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.

The next best thing to being witty is to quote another's wit

Your wit makes others witty.

The wittiest authors raise the very slightest of smiles.

I wonder now how we got by when you weren't here."
"I have no doubt the devastation was widespread, the suffering universal."
"Indeed, it was the Dark Ages in the annals of Mrs. Dawlish's house. Ignorance was thick on the ground, and unenlkghtenment befogged all the windows.