Sarcasm famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Mrs. Landingham, does the President have free time this morning? The President has nothing but free time, Toby. Right now he's in the residence eating Cheerios and enjoying Regis and Kathie Lee. Should I get him for you? Sarcasm's a disturbing thing coming from a woman of your age, Mrs. Landingham. What age would that be, Toby? Late twenties? Atta boy.
-- Aaron Sorkin -
A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.
-- Abba Eban -
Krzhizhanovsky wanted to perform imaginary experiments with the nature of time and space. Outside, in the streets, the Communist state was busy performing such experiments for real. In response, Krzhizhanovsky's prose has a recklessly unstable tone in which delighted examination of impossible worlds can slip into ferocious political sarcasm.... It is a method for investigating how much unreality reality can bear.
-- Adam Thirlwell -
Canada has a passive-aggressive culture, with a lot of sarcasm and righteousness. That went with my weird messianic complex. The ego is a fascinating monster. I was taught from a young age that I had to serve, so that turned into me thinking I had to save the planet.
-- Alanis Morissette -
Few authors are so interesting as their work - they generally reserve their wit or trenchant sarcasm for their books.
-- Alec-Tweedie -
I grew up in an environment of jokes and sarcasm and puns. I talk that way, so I write that way.
-- Allan Sloan -
I thought the line 'I am the daughter of the former governor of Alaska' was very funny. I think the word is 'sarcasm.' In my family we think laughing is good. My parents raised me to have a sense of humor and to live a normal life.
-- Andrea Fay Friedman -
From a private gentlewoman you have made me first a marchioness, then a queen; and, as you can raise me no higher in the world, you are now sending me to be a saint in Heaven.
-- Anne Boleyn -
a sarcastic expression, on a beast, is far more sinister than rage.
-- Anne Bosworth Greene -
Art must always remain earnest... Art must be serious, no sarcasm, comedy. One does not laugh at a loved one.
-- Arshile Gorky -
Well, I'm a bacteriologist, you know. I live in a nine-hundred-diameter microscope. I can hardly claim to take serious notice of anything that I can see with my naked eye.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
The unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it has ceased to deserve the name.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
I have my own views about Nature's methods, though I feel that it is rather like a beetle giving his
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
This looks like one of those unwelcome social summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
There seems to me to be absolutely no limit to the inanity and credulity of the human race. Homo Sapiens! Homo idioticus!
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
I want either less corruption, or more chance to participate in it.
-- Ashleigh Brilliant -
The time for action is past! Now is the time for senseless bickering!
-- Ashleigh Brilliant -
Sarcasm is weird. Even not in acting, in life I feel 'sarcastic' is a word that people use to describe me sometimes so when I meet someone, it's almost they feel they have to also be sarcastic, but it can sometimes just come off as mean if it's not used in the right way.
-- Aubrey Plaza -
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
-- Burt Bacharach -
Sarcasm is the last refuge of the imaginatively bankrupt.
-- Cassandra Clare -
You know, sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.' 'And yet it is still extremely funny.
-- Cecelia Ahern -
Poison." he said, deadpan. "That's an unusual name to give your child. You must love her very much." She's a treasure." Bram agreed, blithely ignoing the sarcasm. .... Then went a few dozen feet in silence, until they were out of eaarshor of the gaurd. She's a treasure." Poison mimicked, and Bram burst out laughing.
-- Chris Wooding -
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.
-- Christian Nestell Bovee -
Sarcasm doesn't suit you, Melissa,' Graham growled. 'Really? I've always thought it brings out my eyes.
-- Christine Warren -
It's wildly irritating to have invented something as revolutionary as sarcasm, only to have it abused by amateurs.
-- Christopher Moore -
Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
-- Clarence Darrow -
The old system of having a baby was much better than the new system, the old system being characterized by the fact that the man didn't have to watch.
-- Dave Barry -
Many consider that Shostakovich is the greatest 20th-century composer. In his 15 symphonies, 15 quartets, and in other works he demonstrated mastery of the largest and most challenging forms with music of great emotional power and technical invention...All his works are marked by emotional extremes - tragic intensity, grotesque and bizarre wit, humour, parody, and savage sarcasm.
-- Dmitri Shostakovich -
If there is no sarcasm, there's no true love towards the mankind
-- Dmitry Pisarev -
I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from.
-- Eddie Izzard -
The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of merely a comma, it often occurs that an axiom appears a paradox, or that a sarcasm is converted into a sermonoid.
-- Edgar Allan Poe -
You listen to any monologue on late-night TV or just in general, to people talking, and there's always a joke at someone's expense. It's sarcasm; it's nasty. Kids grow up hearing that, and they think that's what humor is, and they think it's OK. But that negativity permeates the entire planet.
-- Ellen DeGeneres -
how does she know it's the right room?' wondered Descant. Oh, I don't know; mabye it's the magical red glow coming from the doorway, or perhaps it's the deafening howl of the temporal winds.' said Mervall. Descant nodded.'You could be right, brother. And don't think I don't know sarcasm when I hear it.
-- Eoin Colfer -
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
-- Eric Hoffer -
Sufficiently advanced political correctness is indistinguishable from sarcasm.
-- Erik Naggum -
There are too many confusing things present. Things I know. Thoughts I have. Sarcasm. Things I think I ought to be doing and places I ought to be going. Always other places.
-- Erlend Loe -
don't be angry with the gentleman for thinking, whatever be the cause, for I assure you he makes no common practice of offending in that way.
-- Fanny Burney -
He loves nature in spite of what it did to him.
-- Forrest Tucker -
Automatic simply means that you can?t repair it yourself.
-- Frank Capra -
Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright -
The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.
-- Frank Zappa -
What's on your mind, if you will allow the overstatement.
-- Fred Allen -
Sarcasm creates a chasm between yourself and others.
-- Gayle Forman -
It is said that truth comes from the mouths of fools and children: I wish every good mind which feels an inclination for satire would reflect that the finest satirist always has something of both in him.
-- Georg C. Lichtenberg -
Do unto yourself as your neighbors do unto themselves and look pleasant.
-- George Ade -
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw -
Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!
-- George Bernard Shaw -
If you love someone set them free. If they come back, set them on fire.
-- George Carlin -
Electricity is really just organized lightning.
-- George Carlin -
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
-- George Orwell -
A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal -
If you find it hard to laugh at yourself, I would be happy to do it for you.
-- Groucho Marx -
No, Groucho is not my real name. I am breaking it in for a friend.
-- Groucho Marx -
The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself. Check yourself against this list of obstacles to a pleasing personality: interrupting others; sarcasm; vanity; being a poor listener; insincere flattery; finding fault; challenging others without good cause; giving unsolicited advice; complaining; attitude of superiority; envy of others' success; poor posture and dress.
-- Harold Geneen -
The spirit of sarcasm lives and thrives in the midst of universal wreck; its balls are enchanted and itself invulnerable, and it braves retaliations and reprisals because itself is a mere flash, a bodiless and magical nothing.
-- Henri Frederic Amiel -
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
-- Henry Adams -
And now I'm using sarcasm, to confess the whole thing so later I could say I already told you.
-- Homer -
Oh yeah, you’re a regular sage. Shouldn’t you be sitting on a mountain somewhere cultivating a long white beard waiting for knowledge seekers to come to you?†“Have I mentioned that sarcasm has the potential to be detrimental to the natural beauty of your face?†he countered.
-- Jacquelyn Frank -
When I first started writing, I was living in England and I had that uniquely English sense of sarcasm, which has definitely seemed to have left me. I am a naturalized American and my sensibility has become far more American.
-- Jane Green -
What's in the cave, Russell?' Madigan asked with heavy sarcasm. I shrugged. 'Rocks. Lots of 'em.' 'Don't patronize me.' His voice lowered to a hiss. 'What else is in the cave?' I looked him straight in the eye and spoke one word. 'Mud.
-- Jeaniene Frost -
My parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles were all funny, and I felt that energy, that delivery, that timing, that sarcasm. All that stuff seeped into my brain.
-- Jeff Ross -
There should be a rule against your own inner monologue throwing around that much sarcasm.
-- Jim Butcher -
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
As I said, this was my sarcastic summer. It was only long after that I recognized sarcasm as the protest of people who are weak.
-- John Knowles -
Sarcasm... the protest of those who are weak.
-- John Knowles -
It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.
-- Jonathan Swift -
It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money.
-- Josh Billings -
Some sarcasm is best told simply. Some humor is best told big and some is best told small.
-- Kevin Hart -
Thank you, Morrigan. This is very helpful,†I said, already feeling myself warming up. “And delivered to me entirely without pain.†The Morrigan sucker-punched me hard in the face, sending me sprawling in the snow and breaking my nose. “You spoke too soon and with entirely too much sarcasm,†she said. “We could have parted with a kiss. Remember that....
-- Kevin Hearne -
Nothing is as irritating as the fellow who chats pleasantly while he's overcharging you.
-- Kin Hubbard -
A good listener is usually thinking about something else.
-- Kin Hubbard -
I always had to rely on humor and sarcasm. And when I started having kids, that doesn't work with kids. Kids don't understand sarcasm, and they certainly don't understand my humor.
-- Kurt Fuller -
Can the sarcasm,' he said. 'Please, I always use fresh sarcasm, never canned.
-- Laurell K. Hamilton -
It's strange that men should take up crime when there are so many legal ways to be dishonest.
-- Laurence J. Peter -
Sometimes Americans don't quite get my sense of humor. My good ol' British sarcasm seems to go over their heads.
-- Lee Westwood -
Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrasment...They do everything but watch television.
-- Lewis Thomas -
It wasn't sarcasm." Graves blew out a cloud of acrid smoke. "It was pointing out a fallacy in your logic, babe." Anna's jaw actually dropped. For a moment, I wasn't sure if I should laugh or push him out of the room. Way to go, Graves.
-- Lilith Saintcrow -
Oh, dear me." Nathalie sank back down in the chair and examined her Uggs. "The sarcasm could've started dripping off her and stained the floor. "Is it conspiracy, treachery, murder, or open warfare? I'll have to choose my lipstick accordingly.
-- Lilith Saintcrow -
If you can't detect the sarcasm you've misunderstood.
-- Lily Allen -
A careful blending of sarcasm, irony, and teasing, bickering has its own distinctive cadence and rhythm and is as difficult to master as French, Spanish, or any elective second language. Like Chinese, the fine points of bickering can be discerned in the subtle rise and fall of the voice. If not practiced properly, bickering can be mistaken for its less sophisticated counterpart: whining.
-- Linda Sunshine -
I had always been warned that American didn't always get sarcasm
-- Lindsey Kelk -
Sarcasm mascarades as the Preppy's sense of humor.
-- Lisa Birnbach -
Am I ***** enough to hump a bedpost?" Mica asked. "Not quite yet. Should I consult with you first, Doctor?" Sarcasm lay thick and heavy in her voice. "I believe a consult would be a good idea." Ely nodded with mocking solemnity as Mica lifted herself onto the gurney. "You never know what you may end up hurting if the act isn't done properly.
-- Lora Leigh -
This is what happened in love. One of you cried a lot and then both of you grew sarcastic.
-- Lorrie Moore -
Ministers fall like buttered slices of bread: usually on their good side.
-- Ludwig Borne -
Sarcasm helps me overcome the harshness of the reality we live, eases the pain of scars and makes people smile.
-- Mahmoud Darwish -
Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain -
Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.
-- Mark Twain -
Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
-- Mark Twain
