Best 112 quotes in «comeback quotes» category

That's not writing, that's typing

That's the greatest comeback since Lazarus.

The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written.

The most effective comeback to an insult is silence.

The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it.

The name Kylie can be used for Scrabble, as it is an aboriginal word for boomerang. Which is why Ms Minogue is so good at comebacks.

The backpackers are back on the bandwagon like this was my comeback season back, back in the day

The bad part about being recognized is that when I walk into a restaurant and sit down, I've got to eat everything on the plate, whether it's good or bad. People would take it as an insult if I did otherwise.

There is nothing as sweet as a comeback, when you are down and out, about to lose, and out of time.

The person who receives the most favors is the one who knows how to return them.

There's nothing as exciting as a comeback - seeing someone with dreams, watching them fail, and then getting a second chance.

The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment.

The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.

The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality.

The selection rules are the same for everybody. I am trying to make a comeback just like some other players who got dropped after the Pakistan tour. I hope my time will come.

This pilot, by far, was the best I ever read - and I hope that insults every other pilot I worked on.

The writer works in a lonely way.

To say 'we' and mean 'I' is one of the most recondite insults.

The stardom thing happened and now I'm trying to make a comeback, if you want to call it that.

To admit you want to have a comeback means you have to admit you weren't what you were supposed to be. You dropped below your own standard.

Today I should not be identified with any kind of regressive therapy.

Well, I can throw a mean comeback, so there's that. I will crush them on wit.

Ultimately, there is no compromise. Westerners will either retain their civilization, including the right to insult and blaspheme, or not.

Unlike an external enemy, the inner enemy cannot regroup and launch a comeback once it has been destroyed from within.

Well, any good comeback needs some true believers.

Whatever insults my state insults me.

We must return to nature and nature's god.

What makes a person a success is how they handle the lows in life and how they make their comeback.

What you think is a setback, is really a set-up for a greater comeback!

Well, Marx is having a comeback. I hear him mentioned a lot in terms of the global financial situation and the general sense of injustice out there. A lot of economic experts in America refer to him without actually using the M word, but he's around.

What is working in the economy is a natural comeback plus some effects of the policies we've been following. But I'm sort of worried about the long term effects.

You may be in a tough time but that setback is simply a setup for a greater comeback.

When you combine something to say with the skill to say it properly, then you've got a good writer.

And I’m stubborn, if you want absolute obedience, get a Labrador.

Your setback is just a setup for your comeback.

Better to have been a dickhead and seen it, than be a cunt all your life and not know it.

don’t be stubborn, mister. we haven't got all day." "you mean this is a part-time job?

Captain Billings," he drawled finally, "if you will pardon my candor, I might remark that you are something of an ass, don't you know.

Pain is temporary- The pain you feel today is only to get strength to face tomorrow.

I felt my cheeks turn red, and she laughed out loud. But I didn't mind too much, because the last thing she saw was my middle finger aimed in her direction as I stepped outside

I am facing a challenge, I am not facing defeat. Remember this.

I can handle Glory." "Can you?" Eve asked. "Because I notice you never call her Gloriana. Just Glory." He shut up. Which is probably about the only smart thing he can do, Claire thought.

I have a love / hate relationship with things and places the same way I do with people. And I’m getting tired of this place, feeling as if each corner here is asking me to leave; Leave and never come back again …

I'm coming back and I'm coming back swinging!

I was sure I'd have the perfect answer sometime tonight.

Oh, yet come back, come back to me, beloved; for I repent me of my choice! Come back, and we will creep away together, to some dark and silent grave where the devouring army shall not find us; and we will lay us down there, locked in one another's arms, and sleep, and sleep, and sleep.

You mustn't mind so much. It's all in your head." "Well, I live in my head.

...unfortunately, I am incapable of thinking up perfectly biting, split-second retorts, in any language. The French even have a word for this: l'esprit de l'escalier; staircase wit, something you only think of on the way out.

What do you mean by that?” Her frustration got the best of her. “You’re so used to feeling superior that you’ve forgotten there are people who might know something you don’t.” One of his big, competent hands landed on the blade of his hip. “What’s your deal anyway? Do you feel like such a failure that you need to attack anybody who’s successful?” “No. Maybe. I don’t know. Fuck you.

What is a whore?" Unsurprisingly, that hadn't been one of the words we had shared over the last span of days. For half a moment I considered lying, but there was no way I could manage it. "He says your mother is a person men pay money to have sex with." Tempi turned back to the mercenary and nodded graciously. "You are very kind. I thank you.