Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning.
- Charlotte Perkins GilmanWell, remember what you said, because in a day or two, I`ll have a witty and blistering retort! You`ll be devastated THEN!
- Andy CoenIf a man will understand how intimately, yea, how inseparably, self-control and happiness are associated, he has but to look into his own heart, and upon the world around,...Looking upon the lives of men and women, he will perceive how the hasty word, the bitter retort, the act of deception, the blind prejudice and foolish resentment bring wretchedness and even ruin in their train.
- James Allen