Quotes About Repartee

Oscar Wilde: 'Do you mind if I smoke?' Sarah Bernhardt: 'I don't care if you burn.'

Well done,' said a voice somewhere behind him. 'Consciousness to sarcasm in five seconds!

She was quick of mind and swift of tongue, always ready to answer a set down with the kind of witty rebuke most of us can think of only long after the moment of insult has passed.

Silence is the unbearable repartee.

I enjoy repartee and frequently engage in devil's advocacy. In short, when I talk to friends, I do not guard every word that I say because I think that I know they know that my commitment to equality and justice is real, and they would not twist my words or misinterpret what I am saying to them.

Snake eyes! the croupier said.          Lizard dick! Coyote shouted back. This sent me to convulsions.

Violence is the repartee of the illiterate

You need not hurry when the object is only to prevent my saying a bon mot, for there is not the least wit in my nature. I am a very matter-of-fact, plain-spoken being, and may blunder on the borders of a repartee for half an hour together without striking it out.

Well, ha-jolly-ha to YOU, young Stiffie-- with knobs on!

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.

Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.

The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to quote another's wit.

Beshrew me, but you have a quick wit. SPEED: And yet it cannot overtake your slow purse.

Not always. Sometimes it's ass," Vince said, cleverly bringing ass back into the conversation one more time. I began to wonder if there was a hidden camera, with a smirking game-show host handing out a prize every time we used the word.

Tell me, Francis, do you buy your one-liners wholesale? Only they're well past their sell-by.

You always a wiseass?" "No. Sometimes I'm asleep." He

You always a wiseass?" "No. Sometimes I'm asleep.

The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.