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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
Other Republican candidates may retort to personal attacks and negative ads. -- George W. Bush
One doesn't come to Italy for niceness," was the retort; "one comes for life. Buon giorno! Buon giorno! -- E. M. Forster
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
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
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
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 dais, and appeal at once to our respect and pity. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
I think that Lethal Weapon-style dialogue is overused, it's a necessary aspect of high action films where you have to have the smart retort. You have to say "I'll be back baby" and stuff. It's not my style. -- George Lucas
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 change any votes, you won't make the atmosphere in the room any better, YOU won't feel any better. -- Carolyn Hax
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 are helping to stock-pile more of these peace-bringing qualities in the world instead of armaments for war. -- Connie Foster
Rude poets of the tavern hearth, squandering your unquoted mirth, which keeps the ground, and never soars, while jake retorts, and reuben roars; tough and screaming, as birch-bark, goes like bullet to its mark; while the solid curse and jeer never balk the waiting ear. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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 you?" was a retort that might follow any bout of enthusiasm, along with laughter - who would let themselves be bought? -- Jennifer Egan
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 complete stranger would pay off your bills!" This is what happens. You tell your friends your most personal secrets, and they use them against you. -- Sophie Kinsella
Look. Every partisan in every party has to learn one thing: Sometimes your people are wrong. To paraphrase an old retort, saying "My party, right or wrong" is like saying "My Kennedy, drunk or sober." Credibility is earned, and standing up and saying "Fie!" now and then reinforces your truthfulness. -- James Lileks
If we did not know all His retorts by heart, if we had not taken the sting out of them by incessant repetition in the accents of the pulpit, and if we had not somehow got it into our heads that brains were rather reprehnsible, we should reckon Him among the greatest wits of all time. Nobody else, in three brief years, has achieved such an output of epigram. -- Dorothy L. Sayers

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