Elizabeth's Wit

Elizabeth's wit allows her to be able to insult someone without it seeming down right insulting, "'Both,' replied Elizabeth archly; 'for I have always seen a great similarity in the turn of our minds. -We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to prosperitywith all the eclat of a proverb.'" But is it really an insult if it is truth?