Insolent Quote by Mahatma Gandhi

“It's how the English run their courts. They sacrifice innocents, thinking to keep evil at bay, and call it a kind of justice. But…

— Kathleen Kent

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,…

— Connie Foster

I am aware that many critics consider the conditions in the stars not sufficiently extreme . . . the stars are not hot enough.…

— Arthur Eddington

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

— Anonymous

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…

— Anonymous

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…

— Jennifer Egan

What is the use of assuring Fundamentalists that science is compatible with religion. They retort at once, Certainly not with our religion.

— Luther Burbank

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

If you can somehow force a liberal into a point-counterpoint argument, his retorts will bear no relation to what you’ve said - unless you…

— Ann Coulter

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

A philosopher who says, 'There are no truths, only interpretations,' risks the retort: 'Is that true, or only an interpretation?'

— Roger Scruton

Can you nominate in order now the degrees of the lie? I will name you the degrees. The first, the Retort Courteous; the second,…

— William Shakespeare

If we did not know all His retorts by heart, if we had not taken the sting out of them by incessant repetition in…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

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…

— John Corapi