Gza Quotes

Nobody can swashbuckle a quick-witted riposte like Emma Thompson. She's a writer, a real writer, and she has a relish for the well-chosen word.

Verbally, I'm quite fast on my feet. I could embarrass or anger most people if I wanted to.

I love to have battles of the wits with people that can dish fast and dirty - and it leads to problems occasionally, 'cause I can sound mean without attempting to be mean.

I can be just as effective with a quick retort or a one-liner than with a big paragraph.

My father was a master of the cutting insult.

Who has words at the right moment?

Reed Scott is really good at coming up with insults.

Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.

The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.

Eloquence is the poetry of prose.

I'm keeping my acerbic wit completely fueled.

Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays.

Some eloquence is like a magic.

The mediocrity of his [Winston Churchill's] thinking is concealed by the majesty of his language.... He mistakes verbal facilities for mental inspiration.

This fellow has a silver tongue

As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.

Eloquence is the art of saying as little as possible but making it sound as much as possible.

Eloquence, when in its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection.

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

At the best, sarcasms, bitter irony, scathing wit, are a sort of swordplay of the mind. You pink your adversary, and he is forthwith dead; and then you deserve to be hung for it.

I will speak daggers to her, but use none.

If we did not know all His retorts by heart, if we had not taken the sting out of them by incessant repetition in the accents of the pulpit, and if we had not somehow got it into our heads that brains were rather reprehnsible, we should reckon Him among the greatest wits of all time. Nobody else, in three brief years, has achieved such an output of epigram.

Never have a battle of wits with an unarmed person.

Poetic justice, poetic justice.. if I told you that a flower bloom in a dark room would you trust it. I mean I write poems in these songs.

The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.