Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.

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• James Thurber:

  With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and defi

• James Thurber:

  The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.

• Jane Austen:

  Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

• Jane Austen:

  There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to des

• Jane Austen:

  A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as s

• Jane Austen:

  Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.

• Jane Austen:

  Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.

• Jane Austen:

  One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, not

• Jane Austen:

  One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

• Jane Austen:

  I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.