Retort Quotes
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![Winston S. Churchill](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1306133803i/14033._UX200_CR0,21,200,200_.jpg)
“A lady came up to me one day and said 'Sir! You are drunk', to which I replied 'I am drunk today madam, and tomorrow I shall be sober but you will still be ugly.”
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![Jane Austen](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1651510251i/1265._UX200_CR0,4,200,200_.jpg)
“There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome."
"And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody."
"And yours," he replied with a smile, "is wilfully to misunderstand them.”
― Pride and Prejudice
"And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody."
"And yours," he replied with a smile, "is wilfully to misunderstand them.”
― Pride and Prejudice
![George Carlin](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1664917557i/22782._UY200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“I often warn people:" Somewhere along the way, someone is going to tell you, 'There is no "I" in team.' What you should tell them is, 'Maybe not. But there is an "I" in independence, individuality and integrity.”
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![Frank Zappa](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1696236573i/22302._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Interviewer: 'So Frank, you have long hair. Does that make you a woman?'
Frank Zappa: 'You have a wooden leg. Does that make you a table?”
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Frank Zappa: 'You have a wooden leg. Does that make you a table?”
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![Shannon Hale](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1299093233i/49177._UX200_CR0,20,200,200_.jpg)
“I don't know how you persist in being so stubborn-"
"It's a superpower. I was bitten by a radioactive mule.”
― The Actor and the Housewife
"It's a superpower. I was bitten by a radioactive mule.”
― The Actor and the Housewife
![Benjamin Disraeli](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1212684660i/47030._UX200_CR0,58,200,200_.jpg)
“A member of Parliament to Disraeli: 'Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease.'
That depends, Sir,' said Disraeli, 'whether I embrace your policies or your mistress.”
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That depends, Sir,' said Disraeli, 'whether I embrace your policies or your mistress.”
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![Winston S. Churchill](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1306133803i/14033._UX200_CR0,21,200,200_.jpg)
“An old battleax of a woman said to Winston Churchill," If you were my husband I would put poison in your tea. "Churchill's response," Ma'am if you were my wife I would drink it.”
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![Winston S. Churchill](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1306133803i/14033._UX200_CR0,21,200,200_.jpg)
“I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend... if you have one."
— George Bernard Shaw, playwright (to Winston Churchill)
"Cannot possibly attend first night; will attend second, if there is one."
— Churchill's response”
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— George Bernard Shaw, playwright (to Winston Churchill)
"Cannot possibly attend first night; will attend second, if there is one."
— Churchill's response”
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![Cassandra Clare](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1689347318i/150038._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“I'm not sure you're quite sensible of the honor I'm doing you," Jace said. "you'll be the first mundane who has ever been inside the Institute."
"Probably the smell keeps the rest of them away.”
― City of Bones
"Probably the smell keeps the rest of them away.”
― City of Bones
![Amanda Hocking](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1610428515i/3486415._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“What's your angle?" I asked, trying to sound more playful than demanding.
"Isosceles," Jack quipped.”
― My Blood Approves
"Isosceles," Jack quipped.”
― My Blood Approves
![Cassandra Clare](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1689347318i/150038._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“Are you trying to get run over by a cab?"
"Don't be ridiculous. We could never get a cab that easily in this neighborhood.”
― City of Bones
"Don't be ridiculous. We could never get a cab that easily in this neighborhood.”
― City of Bones
![Courtney Summers](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1689446125i/1487748._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“I don't like you with Becky. She's not a very nice girl.'
'I don't like you with Jake. He's not me.”
― Cracked Up to Be
'I don't like you with Jake. He's not me.”
― Cracked Up to Be
![Criss Jami](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1620861879i/4860176._UX200_CR0,16,200,200_.jpg)
“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.”
― Killosophy
― Killosophy
![Terry Pratchett](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1235562205i/1654._UX200_CR0,38,200,200_.jpg)
“(About a cookbook...)
- What about this one? Maids of Honor?
- Weeelll, they starts OUT as Maids of Honor...but they ends up Tarts.”
― Maskerade
- What about this one? Maids of Honor?
- Weeelll, they starts OUT as Maids of Honor...but they ends up Tarts.”
― Maskerade
![Margot Asquith](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1364807058i/2137398._UX200_CR0,30,200,200_.jpg)
“[Jean Harlow] 'Say - aren't you Margot Asquith?' (pronouncing the hard 't')
[Margot Asquith] 'Yes Dear, But the 't' is silent, as in Harlow.”
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[Margot Asquith] 'Yes Dear, But the 't' is silent, as in Harlow.”
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![Patrick Rothfuss](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1351307341i/108424._UX200_CR0,42,200,200_.jpg)
“I do not understand this man," [Tempi] said. "Is he attempting to buy sex with me? Or does he wish to fight?”
― The Wise Man’s Fear
― The Wise Man’s Fear
![P.G. Wodehouse](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1198684105i/7963._UX200_CR0,39,200,200_.jpg)
“I said, 'Don't talk rot, Old Tom Travers."
"I am not accustomed to talk rot," he said.
"Then, for a beginner," I said, "you do it dashed well.”
― Right Ho, Jeeves
"I am not accustomed to talk rot," he said.
"Then, for a beginner," I said, "you do it dashed well.”
― Right Ho, Jeeves
![Plutarch](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1467731032i/31015._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“Demaratus, being asked in a troublesome manner by an importunate fellow, Who was the best man in Lacedaemon? answered at last, 'He, Sir, that is the least like you'.”
― Plutarch's Lives: Volume I
― Plutarch's Lives: Volume I
![Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1651531859i/6188._UX200_CR0,26,200,200_.jpg)
“When, therefore, a man is told, “You (your inner being) are so and so, because your skull-bone is so constituted,” this means nothing else than that we regard a bone as the man's reality. To retort upon such a statement with a box on the ear — in the way mentioned above when dealing with psysiognomy — removes primarily the “soft” parts of his head from their apparent dignity and position, and proves merely that these are no true inherent nature, are not the reality of mind; the retort here would, properly speaking, have to go the length of breaking the skull of the person who makes a statement like that, in order to demonstrate to him in a manner as palpable as his own wisdom that a bone is nothing of an inherent nature at all for a man, still less his true reality.”
― The Phenomenology of Mind, Vol 1
― The Phenomenology of Mind, Vol 1
![Edgar Rice Burroughs](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1207155710i/10885._CR0,26,200,200_.jpg)
“What--has O-Tar seen an ulsio and fainted?" demanded I-Gos with broad sarcasm.
"Men have died for less than that, ancient one," E-Thas reminded him.
"I am safe," retorted I-Gos, "for I am not a brave and popular son of the jeddak of Manator.”
― The Chessmen of Mars
"Men have died for less than that, ancient one," E-Thas reminded him.
"I am safe," retorted I-Gos, "for I am not a brave and popular son of the jeddak of Manator.”
― The Chessmen of Mars
![Holly Black](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1692906898i/25422._UY200_CR40,0,200,200_.jpg)
“He looks at her with benevolent incomprehension." Whatever do you mean? I just took a mouthful of the land at your behest.”
― The Wicked King
― The Wicked King
![Rebecca Yarros](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1689003619i/7539785._UX200_CR0,30,200,200_.jpg)
“She can be taught.'
'She's a quick learner,' I retort.
'That remains to be seen.' He backs up two steps, putting a little space between us before crooking his fingers at me again.
'You're made your damn point,' I snap loud enough that I hear Imogen gasp.
'Trust me, I've barely gotten started.”
― Fourth Wing
'She's a quick learner,' I retort.
'That remains to be seen.' He backs up two steps, putting a little space between us before crooking his fingers at me again.
'You're made your damn point,' I snap loud enough that I hear Imogen gasp.
'Trust me, I've barely gotten started.”
― Fourth Wing
“Ranta: Let's just pray that she actually is a tsundere... Though, if she were a tsundere, obviously, the one she'd go dere for is me, you know? That's kind of... not so bad, I guess?
Moguzo: O-Obviously, she wouldn't go dere for Ranta, I think...
Ranta: Oh, shut up, Moguzo!”
― Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash: Volume 1
Moguzo: O-Obviously, she wouldn't go dere for Ranta, I think...
Ranta: Oh, shut up, Moguzo!”
― Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash: Volume 1
![Holly Black](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1692906898i/25422._UY200_CR40,0,200,200_.jpg)
“He looks at her with benevolent incomprehension." Whatever do you mean? I just took a mouthful of the land atyour behest.”
― The Wicked King
― The Wicked King
![Sarah J. Maas](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1582137198i/3433047._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“Care to join?' Cassian purred.
Nesta said, 'It doesn't look like you're exercising anything other than your mouths.”
― A Court of Wings and Ruin
Nesta said, 'It doesn't look like you're exercising anything other than your mouths.”
― A Court of Wings and Ruin
![Rebecca Yarros](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1689003619i/7539785._UX200_CR0,30,200,200_.jpg)
“Bet you wish you could throw that blade, don't you?' he taunts, knowing I won't break a rule when it can hurt someone in the matches going on around us.
'Bet you wish you didn't know what it feels like to dig out one of my knives, don't you?' I retort.”
― Fourth Wing
'Bet you wish you didn't know what it feels like to dig out one of my knives, don't you?' I retort.”
― Fourth Wing
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