| 1. | If among all the curious, useless, unheard-of words which may be picked out of the spelling-book, he cannot find one which the scholars have not noticed, he gets the last head down by some quip or catch. - from The Best American Humorous Short Stories by Various |
| 2. | Shall quips and sentences and these paper bullets o. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 3. | How now, how now, mad wag What, in thy quips and th. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 4. | A severe thought, starting oddly from a clash of words, suddenly traversed the conflict of quips in which Grantaire, Bahorel, Prouvaire, Bossuet, Combeferre, and Courfeyrac were confusedly fencing. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |