Noun
a clever remark
Source: WordNetbon-mot
It is easier to be a lover than a husband, for the same reason that it is more difficult to show a ready wit all day long than to produce an occasional bon mot. Honoré de Balzac
Jesus is too colossal for the pen of phrasemongers, however artful. No man can dispose of Christianity with a bon mot. Albert Einstein
I had learned of Gertrude Stein's bon mot that medicine opened all doors. This prompted me, in different moods, to view my future life as literary psychiatrist, globe-trotting tropical disease specialist, or academic internist. Harold E. Varmus