Every time we hold our tongues instead of returning the sharp retort, show patience with another's faults, show a little more love… — Connie Foster Copy Share Image
If we did not know all His retorts by heart, if we had not taken the sting out of them by incessant… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Can you nominate in order now the degrees of the lie? I will name you the degrees. The first, the Retort Courteous;… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
A philosopher who says, 'There are no truths, only interpretations,' risks the retort: 'Is that true, or only an interpretation?' — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
A woman springs a sudden reproach upon you which provokes a hot retort, and then she will presently ask you to apologize. — Mark Twain 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
If you can somehow force a liberal into a point-counterpoint argument, his retorts will bear no relation to what you’ve said -… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
The willing sacrifice of the innocents is the most powerful retort to insolent tyranny that has yet to be conceived by God… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The thing of courage As rous'd with rage doth sympathise, And, with an accent tun'd in self-same key, Retorts to chiding fortune. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
What is the use of assuring Fundamentalists that science is compatible with religion. They retort at once, Certainly not with our religion. — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
Even the financial disclosure statements that political bloggers were required to post hadn't stemmed the suspicion that people's opinions weren't really their… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
Science is not, as so many seem to think, something apart, which has to do with telescopes, retorts, and test-tubes, and especially… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One doesn't come to Italy for niceness," was the retort; "one comes for life. Buon giorno! Buon giorno! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am aware that many critics consider the conditions in the stars not sufficiently extreme . . . the stars are not… — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
More than once I've had discussions with persons who say things based on a misunderstanding. 'Oh you Catholics worship images.' No we… — John Corapi Copy Share Image
Look. Every partisan in every party has to learn one thing: Sometimes your people are wrong. To paraphrase an old retort, saying… — James Lileks Copy Share Image
Someone described Providence as the baptismal name of chance; no doubt some pious person will retort that chance is the nickname of… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
One helpful thing to keep in mind as a retort-stopper is that you won't "win," you won't change anyone's mind, you won't… — Carolyn Hax Copy Share Image
One of the stall doors swings open and a fortyish-year-old woman walks out tucking her shirt into her jeans. Her heavy lined… — Jessica Sorensen Copy Share Image
Other Republican candidates may retort to personal attacks and negative ads. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
To the old our mouths are always partly closed; we must swallow our obvious retorts and listen. They sit above our heads,… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
It is never ridicule, but a compliment, that knocks a philosopher off his feet. He is already positioned for every possible counter-attack,… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
I think that Lethal Weapon-style dialogue is overused, it's a necessary aspect of high action films where you have to have the… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
Science with its retorts would have put me to sleep; it was the opportunity to be ignorant that I improved. It suggested… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
