Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second... if there is one. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
If we ever established contact with intelligent life on another world, there would be barriers to communication. First, they would be many… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
Repartee is perfect when it effects its purpose with a double edge. It is the highest order of wit, as it indicates… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
REPARTEE, n. Prudent insult in retort. Practiced by gentlemen with a constitutional aversion to violence, but a strong disposition to offend. In… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“Tell me now, fairy as you are - can't you give me a charm, or a philter, or something of that sort,… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Repartee is altogether a natural endowment, and is the lightning of the mind. — Alfred de Musset Copy Share Image
Beneath the surface of repartee and mock seriousness, [Plato's Phaedrus] is asking whether we ought to prefer a neuter form of speech… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
One of the great things about the 'Iron Man' franchise is that they employ fascinating actors who don't necessarily do action movies.… — Rebecca Hall Copy Share Image
“Paparazzi arrived for Hugh [Grant]. We had to stand under a tree and smile for them. Photographer: 'Hugh, could you look less… — Emma Thompson Copy Share Image
“Watching him, his hands buried in his pockets—to keep from circling her neck she supposed—she couldn't help but marvel at the curious… — Tracy Sumner Copy Share Image
“Want to play hangman? asks Theophile, and I ache to tell him that I have enough on my plate playing quadriplegic. But… — Jean-Dominique Bauby Copy Share Image
“[S]ince you are angry at me without reason, you attack me harshly with, "Oh outrageous presumption! Oh excessively foolish pride! Oh opinion… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
A man renowned for repartee will seldom scruple to make free with friendship's finest feeling, will thrust a dagger at your breast,… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Violins are the lively, forward, importunate wits, that distinguish themselves by the flourishes of imagination, sharpness of repartee, glances of satire, and… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
“[I]f you seek in every way to minimise my firm beliefs by your anti-feminist attacks, please recall that a small dagger or… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
there is not the least wit in my nature. I am a very matter of fact, plain spoken being, and may blunder… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
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