Well, Karou had wanted to retort, with all the gravity and…

“I don't like you with Becky. She's not a very nice girl.' 'I don't like you with Jake. He's not me.”

— Courtney Summers

“[Jean Harlow] 'Say - aren't you Margot Asquith?' (pronouncing the hard 't') [Margot Asquith] 'Yes Dear, But the 't' is silent, as in Harlow.”

— Margot Asquith

“How dare you call me lazy? I'd come up with a scathing retort but, meh, I'm just not motivated.”

— Andy Weir

One doesn't come to Italy for niceness," was the retort; "one comes for life. Buon giorno! Buon giorno!

— Anonymous

“I said, 'Don't talk rot, Old Tom Travers." "I am not accustomed to talk rot," he said. "Then, for a beginner," I said, "you…

— P.G. Wodehouse

“Demaratus, being asked in a troublesome manner by an importunate fellow, Who was the best man in Lacedaemon? answered at last, 'He, Sir, that…

— Plutarch

I can be just as effective with a quick retort or a one-liner than with a big paragraph.

— Alan Colmes

“About two hours afterwards Gethryn discovered a suitable retort, but, coming to the conclusion that better late than never does not apply to repartees,…

— P.G. Wodehouse

“You can't do a blocking spell, and you've never heard of L'Occhio di Dio? Man, what kind of witch are you?" I had an…

— Rachel Hawkins

REPARTEE, n. Prudent insult in retort. Practiced by gentlemen with a constitutional aversion to violence, but a strong disposition to offend. In a war…

— Ambrose Bierce

A woman springs a sudden reproach upon you which provokes a hot retort, and then she will presently ask you to apologize.

— Mark Twain

“Billy, honey, could you get me another drink from the bar? I’m almost done with this one.” Kate pulls on his arm, cutting off…

— Emma Chase

Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning.

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

“When people ask me that absurd question "Do you like children?" I always feel like retorting - and sometimes do, if I think the…

— L.M. Montgomery

“I'm not sure you're quite sensible of the honor I'm doing you," Jace said. "you'll be the first mundane who has ever been inside…

— Cassandra Clare