Sarcasm Quotes
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Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument. (Quote by - Rufus Choate)
Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous, when you think about it. (Quote by - Lenny Bruce)
Blows are sarcasms turned stupid. (Quote by - George Eliot)
I refused to attend his funeral. But I wrote a very nice letter explaining that I approved of it. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
To "leave a sting within a brother's heart.". (Quote by - Edward Young)
It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues. (Quote by - Jonathan Swift)
Sarcasm is the language of the devil, for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt. (Quote by - Agnes Repplier)
A sneer is the weapon of the weak. (Quote by - James Russell Lowell)
Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded. (Quote by - Fyodor Dostoevski)
Sarcasm is a Manchester trait. (Quote by - Peter Hook)
A sarcastic person has a superiority complex that can be cured only by the honesty of humility. (Quote by - Lawrence G. Lovasik)
Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
He has to learn that petulance is not sarcasm, and that insolence is not invective. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)
There`s a good sense of fun and lack of sarcasm in the Texans, maybe a little earnestness which is kind of why I found it quite Australian. (Quote by - Rachel Griffiths)
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. (Quote by - Georg C. Lichtenberg)
Satire must not be a kind of superfluous ill will, but ill will from a higher point of view. Ridiculous man, divine God. Or else, hatred against the bogged-down vileness of average man as against the possible heights that humanity might attain. (Quote by - Paul Klee)
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind of reception it meets in the world, and that so very few are offended with it. (Quote by - Jonathan Swift)
We are suffering from too much sarcasm. (Quote by - Marianne Moore)
Avoid sarcasm. Don't insist on the last word. (Quote by - Ford Frick)
It is not necesssary to understand things in order to argue about them. (Quote by - Caron)
You have delighted us long enough. (Quote by - Jane Austen)
He loves nature in spite of what it did to him. (Quote by - Forrest Tucker)
Sometimes I need what only you can provide: your absence. (Quote by - Ashleigh Brilliant)
Automatic simply means that you can't repair it yourself. (Quote by - Frank Capra)
The trouble with children is that they are not returnable. (Quote by - Quentin Crisp)
It's always darkest before it turns absolutely pitch black. (Quote by - Paul Newman)
I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure. (Quote by - Clarence Darrow)
Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it. (Quote by - Gordon Dickson)
A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants. (Quote by - Alben W. Barkley)
I do not participate in any sport with ambulances at the bottom of a hill. (Quote by - Erma Bombeck)
The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced. (Quote by - Frank Zappa)
An appeal is when you ask one court to show it's contempt for another court. (Quote by - Finley Peter Dunne)
Mail your packages early so the Post Office can lose them in time for Christmas. (Quote by - Johnny Carson)
As regards rap music, I believe that the c is silent. (Quote by - Dr. Tony Giles)
Cookbooks bear the same relation to real books that microwave food bears to your grandmother's. (Quote by - Andrei Codrescu)
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing. (Quote by - Joey Adams)
If we are the only intelligent life in the universe, at least there's a finite number of idiots. (Quote by - Steven Coallier)
You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well. (Quote by - Carrie Fisher)
What I lack in decorum, I make up for with an absence of tact. (Quote by - Don Williams, Jr.)
People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure. (Quote by - Russel Baker)
I would like to live in Manchester, England. The transition between Manchester and death would be unnoticeable. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
I find it rather easy to protray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me. (Quote by - John Cleese)
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victems he intends to eat until he eats them. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)
The word aerobics comes from two Greek words: aero, meaning ability to, and bics, meaning withstand tremendous boredom. (Quote by - Dave Barry)
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost. (Quote by - Gustave Flaubert)
The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if it were. (Quote by - David Brinkley)
I grew up in an environment of jokes and sarcasm and puns. I talk that way, so I write that way. (Quote by - Allan Sloan)
I'd like to do more stuff with less sarcasm. (Quote by - Sara Gilbert)
In my opinion, I think sarcasm and humor in a song, without turning it into a novelty song, is really charming. (Quote by - Alanis Morissette)
This music won't do. There's not enough sarcasm in it. (Quote by - Samuel Goldwyn)
