Then all those pithy little quotes are lies?

Levant intersperses his reminisces about Hollywood in its heyday with one-liners and pithy quotes by himself and others.

Again and again, Reich offers zippy dramatic dialogues culminating in pithy and revealing quotes.

Since that breakfast, I had relied on David and his team of analysts, virtually all of whom are missing, for pithy quotes for my stories.

He was almost always game for a doctrinally emphatic comment, often with a pithy quote that appeared in the tabloids and the evening news.

The Scotsman had a 'house list' of former Royal Navy commanders, retired but still Scottish residents, who were always good for a pithy quote.

The book is not without its pithy quotes and witty moments.

He became "its public face: ebullient, unorthodox, ready with the pithy quote but erudite, a Mandarin-speaking scholar of Chinese art".

I remembered a pithy quote and told her, "Our virtues are most frequently but vices in disguise."

I had read just enough philosophy and history to find support for my skepticism-a fact here, a scientific theory there, a pithy quote, a clever argument.