Caustic Quotes

• If it's a woman it's caustic, if it's a man it's authority, If it's a woman it's too pushy, if it's a man it's aggressive in the best sense of the word.

  Barbara Walters

  Men, Literature, Authority

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• Too caustic? To hell with the costs, we'll make the picture anyway.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Cost, Hell

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.

  George Eliot

  Order, Play, Quality

  George Eliot (2016). “Felix Holt, The Radical: Top Novelist Focus”, p.129, 谷月社

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• Maybe innocence is a skin you must shed to build layers more resistant to the caustic truths of the world.

  Hector Tobar

  Skins, World, Layers

  Héctor Tobar (2011). “The Barbarian Nurseries: A Novel”, p.257, Macmillan

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• My thoughts are crabbed and sallow,
  My tears like vinegar,
  Or the bitter blinking yellow
  Of an acetic star.
  Tonight the caustic wind, love,
  Gossips late and soon,
  And I wear the wry-faced pucker of
  The sour lemon moon.
  While like an early summer plum,
  Puny, green, and tart,
  Droops upon its wizened stem
  My lean, unripened heart.

  Sylvia Plath

  Broken Heart, Summer, Stars

  Sylvia Plath (2015). “Collected Poems”, p.266, Faber & Faber

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• You can do all manner of underhanded nice things when you have a caustic reputation.

  Markus Zusak

  Nice, Reputation, Can Do

  Markus Zusak (2016). “The Book Thief: 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.162, Random House

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• I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.

  Vera Farmiga

  Sense Of Humor

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• The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.

  Anthony Trollope

  Nature, Spring, Writing

  Anthony Trollope (2014). “An Autobiography: and Other Writings”, p.159, OUP Oxford

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• Debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust and wide-open and that...may well include vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public officials.

  William J. Brennan

  Issues, Government, Freedom Of Speech

  New York Times Co. v. Sullivan (1964)

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• I am acquainted with a wife and mother who is chained securely at the present time to a life-style of murmuring and criticism. She is the first to point out faults in her husband or to repeat neighborhood gossip. How damaging is a habit that permits fault-finding, character assassination, and the sharing of malicious rumors! Gossip and caustic comments often create chains of contention. These chains may appear to be very small, but what misery and woe they can cause!

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Mother, Husband, Character

  Marvin J. Ashton (1987). “Be of Good Cheer”, Deseret Book Co

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• The most callous, stupid things were done just because regulations required them...It was not until 1983, for example, that U.S. federal agencies stated that substances known to be caustic irritants such as lye, ammonia, and oven cleaners, did not need to be tested on the eyes of conscious rabbits.

  Peter Singer

  Stupid, Eye, Animal

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• My childhood memories seem to be wreathed in the twin and far from harmonious olfactory sensations of patchouli oil and caustic soda.

  Hamish Bowles

  Memories, Oil, Childhood

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• It was an axiom of "containment" that no part of the known world could be considered neutral. "Neutralism" was among the Cold Warriors' gravest curse words, applied with caustic hostility to India and even France. Those who were not with were against, subjected to intense economic and ideological and sometimes military pressure to fall into line.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Military, Fall, Warrior

  Christopher Hitchens (2014). “For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports”, p.166, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• The cynical, caustic, acid-tongued New York drama critic Addison De Witt introduces his protege/date of the moment, a bimbo date and so-called actress named Miss Casswell (Marilyn Monroe) in another very famous line: "Miss Casswell is an actress, a graduate of the Copacabana School of Dramatic Art."

  George Sanders

  Art, New York, Drama

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• The bitter attacks I faced were far worse than any fighter I ever faced in the ring. The caustic remarks, the threats to injure me, the shots at my character-fighting those were my toughest battle.

  Jack Johnson

  Character, Fighting, Battle

  "Interview with The Legends of Boxing Part 1". Interview with Monte D. Cox, coxscorner.tripod.com.

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• English audiences of working people are like an instrument that responds to the player. Thought ripples up and down them, and if in some heart the speaker strikes a dissonance there is a swift answer. Always the voice speaks from gallery or pit, the terrible voice which detaches itself in every English crowd, full of caustic wit, full of irony or, maybe, approval.

  Mary Heaton Vorse

  Heart, Player, Voice

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• All right. Tell me what I'm looking at." From the improvised Rolling Stones T-shirt bag tied to my sash, Bob the Skull said, in his most caustic voice, "A giant pair of cartoon lips." I muttered a curse and fumbled with the shirt until one of the skull's glowing orange eye sockets was visible. A big goofy magic nerd!" Bob said.

  Jim Butcher

  Eye, Glowing, Voice

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• A raised eyebrow, an inflection of the voice, a caustic remark dropped in the middle of a broadcast can raise doubts in a million minds about the veracity of a public official or the wisdom of a governmental policy.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Eyebrows, Voice, Doubt

  "Spiro Agnew's Media Legacy: Trump, Obama and Time Magazine" by Jeffrey Lord, www.newsbusters.org. February 11, 2017.

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• If it's a woman, it's caustic; if it's a man, it's authoritative.

  Barbara Walters

  Women, Men, Ifs

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• I think appointments are caustic to creativity.

  David Karp

  Creativity, Thinking, Appointments

  "David Karp, the Nonconformist Who Built Tumblr" by Liz Welch, www.inc.com.

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• We've gotten to the point now where Republicans and Democrats have nothing in common besides being members of the 'caustic caucus,' and we can't get anything done.

  Emanuel Cleaver

  Done, Common, Being Me

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• Philosophy exists in profoundest opposition to rhetoric, which is speaking for the sake of producing or controlling some effect in others' perceptions. Philosophy is about the caustic or cauterizing effect of the truth, not the currying of sensibilities.

  Kenny Smith

  Truth, Philosophy, Perception

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• How damaging is a habit that permits faultfinding, character assassination, and the sharing of malicious rumors! Gossip and caustic comments often create chains of contention.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Character, Gossip, Rumor

  Marvin J. Ashton (1987). “Be of Good Cheer”, Deseret Book Co

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• Despite trials, worldly confusion, and caustic voices, we can trust in the Lord and go forward with happy hearts, knowing that with every challenge or problem, there's the strength to go on. Why? Because we know His promises are real, that He does know us by name and has a plan for each of us. He will help us learn what it is and give us joy in doing it.

  Elaine L. Jack

  Real, Heart, Adversity

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• [Wilson] has this strange inability to censor himself, and he'll say these things that are sometimes quite caustic or end up creating some kind of violent reaction, you know. But, you know, I admire that.

  Woody Harrelson

  Creating, Inability, Strange

  Source: collider.com

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