"Jocosity" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... suffices to vitiate the position of the preacher. And this is no slight escapade, or casual aberration; it is a full and frank defiance, a deliberate and elaborate denial, hurled right in the face of Japanese jocosity, flung straight in the teeth of the theory which condemns high art, under penalty of being considered intelligent, to remain ...
— The Gentle Art of Making Enemies • James McNeill Whistler |
