THESEUS: Would you desire lime and hair to speak better?
DEMETRIUS: It is the wittiest partition that ever I heard discourse, my lord.
– William Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act 5, Scene 1. It doesn’t get more ridiculously funny that this, does it? Theseus asks if you could ever hope for plaster to speak more eloquently. Demetrius replies that it is the cleverest parition that he has ever heard speak. They are talking about Snout playing the part of Wall.