Witty Rebuke Quotes

#1. 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.

Geraldine Brooks

#2. In business, you have to be strong. If you are weak, people are going to take advantage.

Ivana Trump

#3. Dad never went to church. Here, in waning rain and emerging sunshine, was his church. It was the abiding experience of the day, converted in the instant into boundless existential expression -- bold, cold, subtle, warm, fleeting and timeless -- a dance of natural opposites.

George Heuston

#4. Bob," I say, "a man who is no longer interested in the genetics of inbred hillbilly water unicorns is a man who is no longer interested in life. I am afraid for your priorities, son."

T. Kingfisher

#5. What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?

Logan Pearsall Smith

#6. Curious chance one morning long ago in the quiet of the world, when there was less noise and more green, and

J.R.R. Tolkien

#7. Someone who seems doddery is perhaps not doddery at all but only an older person absorbed in squinting concentration, as though on an ultimate trip, memorizing a scene, grateful for being alive to see it.

Paul Theroux