(For the record, Wikiquote suggests W. Somerset Maugham, in the 1926 short story The Creative Impulse—the exact quote listed being “She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit”.)
(For the record, Wikiquote suggests W. Somerset Maugham, in the 1926 short story The Creative Impulse—the exact quote listed being “She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit”.)