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The second mouse gets the cheese! -- Terry Pratchett
I can understand bitchiness in any language. -- Richelle Mead
Caro: "Bite me."Ruby: "I gave that up in kindergarten. -- Kristin Hannah
What's your angle?" I asked, trying to sound more playful than demanding."Isosceles," Jack quipped. -- Amanda Hocking
You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living. -- George Bernard Shaw
I don't know how you persist in being so stubborn-""It's a superpower. I was bitten by a radioactive mule. -- Shannon Hale
I don't like you with Becky. She's not a very nice girl.''I don't like you with Jake. He's not me. -- Courtney Summers
Are you trying to get run over by a cab?""Don't be ridiculous. We could never get a cab that easily in this neighborhood. -- Cassandra Clare
An old battleax of a woman said to Winston Churchill, "If you were my husband I would put poison in your tea." Churchill's response, "Ma'am if you were my wife I would drink it. -- Winston Churchill
A lady came up to me one day and said 'Sir! You are drunk', to which I replied 'I am drunk today madam, and tomorrow I shall be sober but you will still be ugly. -- Winston Churchill
I'm not sure you're quite sensible of the honor I'm doing you," Jace said. "you'll be the first mundane who has ever been inside the Institute." "Probably the smell keeps the rest of them away. -- Cassandra Clare
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 to find a big bear hug coming his way. -- Criss Jami
I often warn people: "Somewhere along the way, someone is going to tell you, 'There is no "I" in team.' What you should tell them is, 'Maybe not. But there is an "I" in independence, individuality and integrity. -- George Carlin
There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome.""And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody.""And yours," he replied with a smile, "is wilfully to misunderstand them. -- Jane Austen
Other Republican candidates may retort to personal attacks and negative ads. -- George W. Bush
The horror of the void became once again its own inverted retort. -- Gellu Naum
One doesn't come to Italy for niceness," was the retort; "one comes for life. Buon giorno! Buon giorno! -- E. M. Forster
Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning. -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Alec muttered a retort into his coffee. It rhymed with something that sounded a lot more like "ducking glass mole. -- Cassandra Clare
I am the most spontaneous speaker in the world because every word, every gesture, and every retort has been carefully rehearsed. -- George Bernard Shaw
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
A woman springs a sudden reproach upon you which provokes a hot retort, and then she will presently ask you to apologize. -- Mark Twain
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
A philosopher who says, 'There are no truths, only interpretations,' risks the retort: 'Is that true, or only an interpretation?' -- Roger Scruton
What is the use of assuring Fundamentalists that science is compatible with religion. They retort at once, Certainly not with our religion. -- Luther Burbank
Someone described Providence as the baptismal name of chance; no doubt some pious person will retort that chance is the nickname of Providence. -- Nicolas Chamfort
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
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 words, the tactics of the North American Indian. -- Ambrose Bierce
There are a lot of complaints by the older generation about the lack of action in this generation. My retort: give these people something to be engaged in. Cutting a check is not engaging. -- Ben Rattray

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