“You guys make way more out of it than it necessarily is. I believe he has had a retort to (the March 26 incident). But I won't have a conversation with him about that. It just wasn't there tonight. When you compete, you don't try to force something.”
Ray Allen
“Well, remember what you said, because in a day or two, I'll have a witty and blistering retort! You'll be devastated THEN!”
Calvin & Hobbes
“I will name you the degrees. The first, the Retort Courteous; the second, the Quip Modest; the third, the Reply Churlish; the fourth, the Reproof Valiant; the fifth, the Countercheck Quarrelsome; the sixth, the Lie with Circumstance; the seventh, the Lie Direct.”
William Shakespeare
“I could have made a neat retort but didn't, for I was flurried and didn't think of it till I was downstairs”
Mark Twain
“Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning.”
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
“It was frustrating, but there is nothing to be gained from moping. Our best retort is to go out against Ireland and perform to our capabilities. If that happens, we give ourselves a chance.”
Craig Wright
“I'm not somebody who believes that darkness is something that should necessarily be hidden from children or anything like that.”
Crispin Glover
