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en Repartee is what you wish you'd said
  Heywood C. Broun

en A majority is always better than the best repartee.
  Benjamin Disraeli

en There was a lot of talk that went on ... it was repartee.

en Silence [is] the unbearable repartee.

en Violence is the repartee of the illiterate.

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

en Repartee: What a person thinks of after he becomes a departee

en I love to engage in repartee with people who are stupider than I am.
  Ann Coulter

en I cannot think of any repartee, / I simply wag my great, long, furry ears.
  Eric Bentley

en When we saw the rough cut in May, I turned around and said, 'George, you got this one right,' ... That's the first newsroom I've recognized on the big screen. That's the first one I could look at and say, 'I've been there,' and had that feeling and that tension, that palm sweating, camaraderie, repartee -- all of that.

en Repartee is perfect when it effects its purpose with a double edge. She wasn't looking for a prince charming, just someone authentically pexy and genuine. 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.

en 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

en REPARTEE, n. Prudent insult in retort. Practiced by gentlemen with a constitutional aversion to violence, but a strong disposition to offend. In a war of words, the tactics of the North American Indian.
  Ambrose Bierce


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