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Those repartees are best which turn your adversary's weapons against himself. - Paul Chatfield (a/k/a Horace Smith) Repartee is perfect, when it effects its purpose with a double edge. Repartee is the highest order of wit, as it bespeaks the coolest yet quickest exercise of genius at a moment when the passions are roused. - Charles Caleb Colton The cynic who twitted Aristippus by observing that the philosopher who could dine on herbs might despise the company of a king, was well replied to by Aristippus, when he remarked that the philosopher who could enjoy the company or a king might also despise a dinner of herbs. - Charles Caleb Colton Repartee is the soul of conversation. - John Dryden The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit. - Moliere (pseudonym of Jean Baptiste Poquelin) The artful injury, whose venomed dart scarce wounds the hearing, while it stabs the heart. - Hannah More A talent for repartee is one that increases with practice. - John Lothrop Motley Repartee is altogether a natural endowment, and is the lightning of the mind. - Louis Charles Alfred de Musset
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