Depends. It is said that once after Whistler got off a good line, Wilde said, "I wish I'd said that!", to which Whistler replied "Don't worry, Oscar, you will."

Depends. It is said that once after Whistler got off a good line, Wilde said, "I wish I'd said that!", to which Whistler replied "Don't worry, Oscar, you will." In his Life of Waller, Samuel Johnson remarked of another one-liner "Such is the story, which I once heard of some other man. Pointed axioms, and acute replies, fly loose about the world, and are assigned successively to those whom it may be the fashion to celebrate." (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/5098/5098-0.txt http://www.gutenberg.org/files/5098/5098-0.txt)