Some quips from Witty Sayings by Witty People, an 1878 collection by William Hardcastle Brown.
“I shall be at home next Sunday night,” said a lady to her beau, who was wavering in his attachment.
“So shall I,” was the reply.Another:
“You would not take me for twenty?” said a young lady to her partner in dancing. “What would you take me for?”
“For better or for worse,” he replied.
And another:
Two ladies asked a polite Irishman, whom he thought the elder. “Sure,” said he, “you both look younger than the other.”
After a brief search, I still have not found a witty saying by a witty woman about or to a man. It may not matter; these are all from the Retorts section, which opens with this stunner:
A married woman said to her husband. “You have never taken me to the cemetery.”
“No, dear,” replied he; “that is a pleasure I have yet in anticipation.”
