Quotes by Retorts Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning. Charlotte Perkins Gilman retorts audience smart One doesn't come to Italy for niceness," was the retort; "one comes for life. Buon giorno! Buon giorno! E. M. Forster niceness retorts What is the use of assuring Fundamentalists that science is compatible with religion. They retort at once, Certainly not with our religion. Luther Burbank retorts atheism use To the old our mouths are always partly closed; we must swallow our obvious retorts and listen. They sit above our heads, on life's raised dais, and appeal at once to our respect and pity. Robert Louis Stevenson retorts pity mouths A philosopher who says, 'There are no truths, only interpretations,' risks the retort: 'Is that true, or only an interpretation?' Roger Scruton retorts philosopher risk
