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• 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

  Uggs, Warfare, Murder

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• His ignorance is encyclopedic.

  Abba Eban

  Sarcastic, Clever, Ignorance

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• sarcasm and jokes were often the bottle in which clinical depressives sent out their most plangent screams for someone to care and help them.

  David Foster Wallace

  Bottles, Care, Helping

  David Foster Wallace (2011). “Infinite Jest”, p.60, Hachette UK

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• I do sarcasm really poorly.

  Brittany Murphy

  Sarcastic

  "Brittany Murphy: 'Don't listen to' gossip" by Meriah Doty, www.cnn.com. August 15, 2003.

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• 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

  Birthday, Thinking, Ego

  "I've been a thorn in people's sides just by existing" by Lucy O'Brien, www.theguardian.com. May 21, 2008.

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• From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Happiness, Witty

  Dust jacket for S. J. Perelman, Dawn Ginsbergh's Revenge (1929). This is described in Show Magazine, Nov. 1961.

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• Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.

  William Ralph Inge

  Sarcastic, Wise, Past

  William Ralph Inge (1929). “Assessments and Anticipations”, Cassell

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• When ideas fail, words come in very handy.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Sarcastic, War, Language Words

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• Sarcasm doesn't translate in print at all.

  Megan Fox

  Sarcastic, Print, Translate

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

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• You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well.

  Carrie Fisher

  Sarcastic, Fake People, Entertainment

  Carrie Fisher (2011). “Postcards From the Edge”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

  Samuel Johnson

  Funny, Life, Being Yourself

  1750-2 In The Rambler.

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• Sometimes Americans don't quite get my sense of humor. My good ol' British sarcasm seems to go over their heads.

  Lee Westwood

  Sarcastic, Sense Of Humor, Sometimes

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• Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast, the disk jockey is not allowed to talk.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Funny, Sarcastic, Humor

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.193, Vintage

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• We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Veterans Day, Witty, Military

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• The secret of a successful restaurant is sharp knives.

  George Orwell

  Funny, Sarcastic, Successful

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• I love Americans, but not when they try to talk French. What a blessing it is that they never try to talk English.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Funny, Sarcastic, Blessing

  Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.428, Delphi Classics

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• It's better to be black than gay because when you're black you don't have to tell your mother.

  Charlie Pierce

  Sarcastic, Mother, Gay

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• I find that the further I go back, the better things were, whether they happened or not.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Sarcastic, Happened

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• Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit -- or a mask. . . . The foregoing maxim shows the difference between truth and sarcasm.

  William Hazlitt

  Men, Differences, Vices

  William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.527

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• I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from.

  Eddie Izzard

  Funny, Sarcastic, Europe

  "Eddie Izzard: Glorious". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 1997.

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• When you are dissatisfied and would like to go back to youth, think of Algebra.

  Will Rogers

  Sarcastic, Thinking, Youth

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• An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.

  Alfred A. Knopf, Sr.

  Sarcastic, Men, Investing

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• It's like in most parts of America, where there was industry and there is no longer; there is cynicism mixed with sarcasm and some optimism. That's how my background influenced my comedy.

  Jim Gaffigan

  America, Optimism, Comedy

  "Gaffigan getting ready to bring 'Sexy' to the Keith". Interview with Ben Fields, www.herald-dispatch.com. September 27, 2008.

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• 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

  Emotional, Symphony, Challenges

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• I don't look at the world through a prism of sarcasm. Anything I do, I take things face on. I tell you how I feel, and what you hear on the air is what I'm feeling. I'm not going to try to fake it, create synthetic drama. I'm just going to be myself.

  Jim Nantz

  Drama, Fake, Feelings

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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