repartee
quick, clever answers
TRANSLATION
die Schlagfertigkeit
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
"We all admire those clever minds with the ability to produce witty repartee at a moment's notice. The Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations compiles a vast collection of such noted quotes."
(Barnes & Noble Book Review)
(Barnes & Noble Book Review)
Did you
know?
"Repartee" dates from about 1645 and is from the French "repartie".
George Bernard Shaw was very good at repartee; a beautiful but rather simple-minded woman once asked him how he'd feel about him fathering her child: "Just imagine a child with your intelligence and my beauty" she said. Shaw quickly replied "Yes, but imagine if it were the other way round!"
George Bernard Shaw was very good at repartee; a beautiful but rather simple-minded woman once asked him how he'd feel about him fathering her child: "Just imagine a child with your intelligence and my beauty" she said. Shaw quickly replied "Yes, but imagine if it were the other way round!"
