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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,… — Robert Louis Stevenson
- Alec muttered a retort into his coffee. It rhymed with something that sounded a lot more like "ducking glass mole. — Cassandra Clare
- A woman springs a sudden reproach upon you which provokes a hot retort, and then she will presently ask you to apologize. — Mark Twain
- REPARTEE, n. Prudent insult in retort. Practiced by gentlemen with a constitutional aversion to violence, but a strong disposition to offend. In… — Ambrose Bierce
- Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- 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
- Can you nominate in order now the degrees of the lie? I will name you the degrees. The first, the Retort Courteous;… — William Shakespeare
- Instant enlightenment. A quintessential modernism, culture and religion accommodated to the age of fast food and bumper stickers. But psyche and spirit… — Kenny Smith