Retorts Quotes

#1. 'I'm not that easy to get rid of,' Andre retorts. 'As you know well. What state are you in? Besides confusion.'

Lynn Kelling

#2. You can't switch sides!" I glare at him in fury.
"I was never on your side," retorts Lorcan. "Your side is the nutty side.

Sophie Kinsella

#3. Listen to the fleshbody," the dropwort retorts. "A mere seventeen turns of the seasons on this ancient earth of ours, and yet he dismisses us.

Maryrose Wood

#4. 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

#5. All kids are devils in disguise," Rose retorts, her forearms on the bar, "and apparently I'm the only one who sees them for what they really are." "And what is that?" "Small, tiny gremlins.

Krista Ritchie

#6. You're so full of yourself."
"You wish you were full of myself," he retorts.
I shiver and blush. "I can't tell if that was the best comeback ever or the worst.

L. H. Cosway

#7. I never know what I'm going to want to curl up in bed with." I shrug.
"How about a man?" she retorts.

Alexandra Potter

#8. You have my word as a gentleman." [The other man remarks that he is not a gentleman and he retorts] "Then you have my word as a scoundrel, which, I know, opens up a rather confusing paradox that I have neither the time nor inclination to disentangle.

David Liss

#9. Never done anything yourself, have yer? Never performed live to a real audience, have yer?' 'Nor have I fucked a donkey, destabilized a Central American state, or played Dungeons & Dragons,' retorts Cheeseman, 'but I reserve the right to hold opinions on those who do.

David Mitchell

#10. 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

#11. So what, you her daddy or something?" the little goon laughs at Tank. Tank steps around me right up to the guy. Tank's got a good eighty pounds and nine inches on him. The little goon looks even smaller standing by Tank. "Only when I'm fuckin' her," Tank retorts with a satisfied smile.

Jaci J.

#12. People like him had these weird thick skins. You insult them to their face and it whistles past their ears. They take irony as compliments and barely even notice your wittiest retorts. When

Niels Saunders

#13. 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

#14. I think you can be tough and aggressive with facts in a way that you cannot be tough and aggressive with emotional retorts. Most of the people that try to be tough on TV are really just being emotional and not factual.

John Sununu

#15. ...unfortunately, I am incapable of thinking up perfectly biting, split-second retorts, in any language. The French even have a word for this: l'esprit de l'escalier; staircase wit, something you only think of on the way out.

Tania Aebi

#16. Verbal clashes seldom come to a satisfying end. They peter out in weak retorts that leave you wishing you'd been as clever in the moment as you are in reviewing the conversation later.

Sue Grafton

#17. One side charges, 'You are decadent.' The other side retorts, 'We are free.' These are not opposing contentions; they're nonsequiturs.

Tamim Ansary

#18. I was in that generation where I was torn if you should put it on the web because you're giving it away for free but you also want people to see your work.

Kalup Linzy

#19. From my own experience, when someone is trying very hard to get something, they don't. And when they're running away from something as hard as they can, it usually catches up with them. I'm generalizing, of course.

Haruki Murakami

#20. We have to wonder whether digital technology, rather than making it easier to communicate, is actually doing the opposite. We now sit alone at a keyboard, firing off zeros and ones into the ether. Offices are silent.

Tom Hodgkinson

#21. People no longer write letters. Lacking the leisure, and, for the most part, the ability, they dictate dispatches, and scribble messages. When you are in the humor, you should take a peep at some of the letters written by people who lived long ago.

Joel Chandler Harris

#22. And yet, I wake up every day to a sensation of pervading disgust and annoyance. I probably ought to carry around some kind of thermometer or other instrument, to keep checking that I am not falling prey to premature curmudgeonhood.

Christopher Hitchens

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

Luther Burbank

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

E. M. Forster

#25. I wasn't letting go of this; this mindless moment where everything felt like it had shifted back into place and all of the wrongs were right again.

R.K. Lilley

#26. Overthrow is a nicely judged word. It suggests a wrestler being flung to the mat. That only happens when you move outside your centre of gravity. Your enemy can't throw you if you have your feet firmly planted. Which

M.R. Carey