Quotes About Retort

Well, if only I wasn't too much the gentleman to flay your spirit with a witty and cutting retort, madam, you'd be … thoroughly … um, wittily retorted at this very instant. - Locke Lamora

This is not a reaction to your words or actions, rather, it is in direct response to them

l'esprit de l'escalier

Smooth move, Ex-lax," I heard Art3mis say.

Emerson:bite me Whitne:you wish

Well!" Mrs. Featherington huffed. "I never!" "No," Anthony replied. "You always.

Oh, thrice romantic Master, don't you want to stroll with your beloved by day under the cherries bursting into bloom, and int he evenings listen to Schubert's music? Won't it be pleasant for you to write with a quill by candlelight? Don't you want to sit, like Faust, over a retort, hoping to create a new homunculus?

His insolent gaze traveled over her body. "I hear you're quite the little saint." "Compared to whom? Caro?" His cynical smirk widened to a genuine smile at her retort. "I daresay you're having a bit of an adventure, aren't you?" "An ordeal is more like it." "Well, you seem to have come through it all in fine spirit." He pressed away from the door and sauntered toward her.

You fear that every effort has been meaningless, but it touches so many others that we can never calculate the impact of our lives, and that impossibility of calculation is a retort to finitude.

You always call it hindsight. Two weeks too late to think of the right retort to make. You lead with your unconscious; you make that retort immediately... Trust your unconscious; it knows more than you do.

Bug just because I was quiet didn't man I had n opinions. In my head I always had a witty retort.

Violence, came the retort, is the last refuge of the incompetent.

Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.

And there is always the argument-closing 'Villain, I have done thy mother', a retort from Titus Andronicus of such eviscerating wit that we still honour it today with jokes beginning with 'your mum'.

When asked how long I've worked here, I replied, "since the day they threatened to fire me."

Peabody:] Bite me. Though Eve managed to swallow a chuckle at her aide's use of her own standard response to annoyances, she didn't quite make it over McNab's cheerful, Where?

The incubation of insurrections gives the retort to the premeditation of coups d'etat.

Monsieur, retorted Gavroche, perhaps you were a man of wit yesterday, but you have degenerated this morning.

Nancy astor -Mr Churchill you're drunk Churchill-- you madam are ugly at lease Tomorrow I'll sober

Well, Karou had wanted to retort, with all the gravity and maturity she could muster. Duh.

Alec muttered a retort into his coffee. It rhymed with something that sounded a lot more like "ducking glass mole.

About two hours afterwards Gethryn discovered a suitable retort, but, coming to the conclusion that better late than never does not apply to repartees, refrained from speaking it.

Oh yeah, well, YOU'RE MISSING A WHOLE BRAIN," Daffodil shouted.

Sir, se lei fosse mio marito, io le avvelenerei il tè. -Madam, se lei fosse mia moglie, io lo berrei. Dialogo tra Lady Astor e Winston Churchill