Quotes with repartee

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• A majority is always better than the best repartee.

  Benjamin Disraeli
  English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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• A man renowned for repartee will seldom scruple to make free with friendship's finest feeling, will thrust a dagger at your breast, and say he wounded you in jest, by way of balm for healing.

  William Cowper
  English poet (1731 - 1800)
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• I love to engage in repartee with people who are stupider than I am.

  Ann Coulter
  American far-right media pundit and author (1961 - )
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• Repartee is perfect when it effects its purpose with a double edge. It is the highest order of wit, as it indicates the coolest yet quickest exercise of genius, at a moment when the passions are roused.

  Charles Caleb Colton
  English writer (1777 - 1832)
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• Silence is the unbearable repartee.

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton
  English writer (1874 - 1936)
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• Violence is the repartee of the illiterate.

  George Bernard Shaw
  Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• friendship
• unbearable
• illiterate
• stupider
• quickest
• exercise

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