E. M. Forster
Novelist, Essayist
"One doesn't come to Italy for niceness," was the retort; "one comes for life. Buon giorno! Buon giorno!"
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Retorts
5 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Author, Poet
"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."
Luther Burbank
Horticulturist
"What is the use of assuring Fundamentalists that science is compatible with religion. They retort at once, Certainly not with our religion."
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