[BITList] Repartees : Some Good Ones

[M.j. Feltham]

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>> Thomas Reed vs. Henry Clay
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>> NYC Mayor Ed Koch vs. Andrew Kirtzman, after the reporter insisted on pressing a point about an inconsistent statement Koch had made
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>> Groucho Marx vs. a contestant on “You Bet Your Life,” after the contestant revealed that he was a father of 10
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>> Abraham Lincoln vs. Stephen Douglas, after Douglas called him “two-faced” during a debate
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>> Pierre Trudeau vs. Richard Nixon, upon hearing that Nixon had called him an asshole
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>> Oscar Wilde vs. Lewis Morris… Morris had just been passed over for the Poet Laureateship
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>> Miriam Hopkins vs. an anonymous singer
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>> James McNeill Whistler vs. Oscar Wilde, after Whistler had made a particularly witty observation
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>> Bill Clinton vs. Dan Quayle, after Quayle revealed that he planned to be “a pit bull” in the 1992 campaign against Clinton and Gore
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>> Reverend Edward Everett Hale vs. the U.S. Senate, when asked if he prayed for the Senators
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>> Edna Ferber vs. Noel Coward… Coward was remarking upon the fact that Ferber was wearing a tailored suit
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>> Henry Clay vs. Massachusetts Senator Daniel Webster after seeing a pack of mules walk by
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>> Winston Churchill vs. a Member of Parliament
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>> Calvin Coolidge vs. some random lady at a White House dinner
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>> Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart vs. an admirer
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