“You know, Gilan, sarcasm isn't the lowest form of wit. It's not even wit at all.”

Source: The Time of My Life

Source: Mortal Coil

Source: The Sense of an Ending

C'est n'avoir pas perdu tout votre temps à Rome,
Que vous savoir ainsi défendre en galant homme:
Vous avez de l'esprit, si vous n'avez du cœur.
Nicomède, act III, scene vi.
Nicomède (1651)

Maxims and Moral Sentences

Source: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

Section 4, member 1, subsection 2, Causes of Religious melancholy. From the Devil by miracles, apparitions, oracles. His instruments or factors, politicians, Priests, Impostors, Heretics, blind guides. In them simplicity, fear, blind zeal, ignorance, solitariness, curiosity, pride, vainglory, presumption, &c. his engines, fasting, solitariness, hope, fear, etc.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III

Michael Kennedy The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music (1980) p. 593.