That wonderful short, slim volume is full of bons mots of that kind.
In the interminable queues before the foodshops it is your bons mots, your repartees, your songs, that we repeat.
These works also contain many of his sharper opinions and "bons mots".
Having always excelled as a wit and raconteur, he often composed by assembling phrases, "bons mots" and witticisms into a longer, cohesive work.
