Then, the wittiness of the drawing-room turned into shrewdness as it crossed the office threshold.
"Jane Cable"
George Barr McCutcheon
But one could go on for ever, and I have quoted enough to illustrate the wittiness of the dialogue, and, as the author himself lays down, "Enough is as good as a meal."
"Oscar Wilde"
Leonard Cresswell Ingleby
Let me be brilliant, dear boy, or I feel that I shall weep for sheer wittiness, and die, as so many have died, with all my epigrams still in me.
"The Green Carnation"
Robert Smythe Hichens