sharp-wittedness

Updated: May 19, 2025

Sharp-wittedness playing on ignorance to the end of personal advancement so dominant a feature has this become of our political life, that any protest against the misuse of a noble word, when men speak contemptuously of politics, is no doubt quite untimely. Untimely, because it is too early, not because it is too late.

Victor Gollancz - The School and the World

Now, didn't you?" "But it was all in fun," protested Joel, distressedly. "I didn't suppose you meant it, you know." "Meant it!" answered Outfield indignantly. "Of course I meant it. Don't you expect I appreciate level-headedness and sharp-wittedness and applicationousness just as much as Remsen? Why, I had it all fixed.

Ralph Henry Barbour - The Half-Back