Quotes on Repartee

you may fume and fidget as you please: but this is the best plan to pursue with you, I am certain. I like you more than I can say; but I’ll not sink into a bathos of sentiment: and with this needle of repartee I’ll keep you from the edge of the gulf too; and, moreover, maintain by its pungent aid that distance between you and myself most conducive to our real mutual advantage.

Silence is the unbearable repartee.

Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.

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.

I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend... if you have one.

He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.