{"quotes":[{"text":"[I]f you seek in every way to minimise my firm beliefs by your anti-feminist attacks, please recall that a small dagger or knife point can pierce a great, bulging sack and that a small fly can attack a great lion and speedily put him to flight.","author":"Christine de Pizan","tags":["attacks","beliefs","clichés","convictions","dignity","double-standards","feminism","gender","hypocrisy","insults","men","misogyny","preconceptions","prejudice","repartee","self-esteem","self-importance","slander","stereotypes","wit","women"],"id":53673,"author_id":"Christine+de+Pizan"},{"text":"If I be waspish, best beware my sting.","author":"William Shakespeare","tags":["repartee","wasps","wit","women"],"id":227212,"author_id":"William+Shakespeare"},{"text":"Paparazzi arrived for Hugh [Grant]. We had to stand under a tree and smile for them.Photographer: 'Hugh, could you look less -- um --'Hugh: 'Pained?","author":"Emma Thompson","tags":["actors","movie-stars","movies","paparazzi","repartee","wit"],"id":245376,"author_id":"Emma+Thompson"},{"text":"There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome.'And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody.'And yours,' he replied with a smile, 'is wilfully to misunderstand them.","author":"Jane Austen","tags":["character","defects","dislike","education","hatred","misunderstanding","propensity","repartee","retort","wit"],"id":248434,"author_id":"Jane+Austen"},{"text":"Want to play hangman? Asks Theophile, and I ache to tell him that I have enough on my plate playing quadriplegic. But my communication system disqualifies repartee: the keenest rapier grows dull and falls flat when it takes several minutes to thrust it home. By the time you strike, even you no longer understand what had seemed so witty before you started to dictate it, letter by letter. So the rule is to avoid impulsive sallies. It deprives conversation of its sparkle, all those gems you bat back and forth like a ball-and I count this forced lack of humor one of the great drawbacks of my condition.","author":"Jean-Dominique Bauby","tags":["communication","conversation","locked-in-syndrome","repartee"],"id":431644,"author_id":"Jean-Dominique+Bauby"},{"text":"I must be overtired', Buttercup managed. 'The excitement and all.''Rest then', her mother cautioned. 'Terrible things can happen when you're overtired. I was overtired the night your father proposed.","author":"William Goldman","tags":["buttercup","irony","repartee","the-princess-bride","tired","tiredness","william-goldman"],"id":456174,"author_id":"William+Goldman"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":6,"pages":1}}