Retorts Quotes
21 quotes by 21 authors
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A woman springs a sudden reproach upon you which provokes a hot retort, and then she will presently ask you to apologize.
— Mark Twain
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REPARTEE, n. Prudent insult in retort. Practiced by gentlemen with a constitutional aversion to violence, but a strong disposition to offend. In a war of…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning.
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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Every time we hold our tongues instead of returning the sharp retort, show patience with another's faults, show a little more love and kindness, we…
— Connie Foster
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Can you nominate in order now the degrees of the lie? I will name you the degrees. The first, the Retort Courteous; the second, the…
— William Shakespeare
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Instant enlightenment. A quintessential modernism, culture and religion accommodated to the age of fast food and bumper stickers. But psyche and spirit are not so…
— Kenny Smith
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More than once I've had discussions with persons who say things based on a misunderstanding. 'Oh you Catholics worship images.' No we don't, 'yes you…
— John Corapi
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I am aware that many critics consider the conditions in the stars not sufficiently extreme . . . the stars are not hot enough. The…
— Arthur Eddington
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A philosopher who says, 'There are no truths, only interpretations,' risks the retort: 'Is that true, or only an interpretation?'
— Roger Scruton
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The willing sacrifice of the innocents is the most powerful retort to insolent tyranny that has yet to be conceived by God or man.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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To the old our mouths are always partly closed; we must swallow our obvious retorts and listen. They sit above our heads, on life's raised…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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Science is not, as so many seem to think, something apart, which has to do with telescopes, retorts, and test-tubes, and especially with nasty smells,…
— Archibald Garrod
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It is never ridicule, but a compliment, that knocks a philosopher off his feet. He is already positioned for every possible counter-attack, counter-argument, and retort...only…
— Criss Jami
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Well, remember what you said, because in a day or two, I'll have a witty and blistering retort! You'll be devastated THEN
— Bill Watterson
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Alec muttered a retort into his coffee. It rhymed with something that sounded a lot more like "ducking glass mole.
— Cassandra Clare
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One doesn't come to Italy for niceness," was the retort; "one comes for life. Buon giorno! Buon giorno!
— E. M. Forster
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When we stop believing in gods we can start believing in their stories, I retort. There are of course no such things as miracles, but…
— Salman Rushdie
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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 own. "Who's paying…
— Jennifer Egan
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This is me, remember?" retorts Suze. "I know what you're like! You used to throw all your bank statements into the trash and hope a…
— Sophie Kinsella
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One of the stall doors swings open and a fortyish-year-old woman walks out tucking her shirt into her jeans. Her heavy lined eyes land on…
— Jessica Sorensen
Who Wrote These Retorts Quotes
21 authors contributed a total of 21 Retorts Quotes as follows: