Sarcasm Quotes - Page 18

• Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.

  Peter Ustinov

  Vices, Belief, Virtue

  "Ustinov's comic touch". BBC obituary, news.bbc.co.uk. March 29, 2004.

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• I'd to do more stuff with less sarcasm.

  Sara Gilbert

  Sarcastic, Stuff

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• Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Love, Life, Relationship

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• History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history.

  Clarence Darrow

  Funny, Sarcastic, Carpe Diem

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• 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

  Eye, Rocks, Voice

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• I'll speak for myself, but there's a lot of humor to be found in sarcasm and darkness. You talk to any paramedic, they survive by developing a pretty off-kilter sense of humor.

  Nicolas Cage

  Darkness, Sense Of Humor, Speak

  "Comic-Con: Nicolas Cage, Idris Elba, and Directors Mark Neveldine/ Brian Taylor Interview GHOST RIDER: SPIRIT OF VENGEANCE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 27, 2011.

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• It is no secret that organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one considers that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies.

  Woody Allen

  Sarcastic, Years, America

  "A Look at Organized Crime" by Woody Allen in "Disquiet, Please! More Humor Writing from the New Yorker" by David Remnick, Henry Finder, (p. 364), 2008.

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• As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree,' probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.

  Woody Allen

  Sarcastic, Nature, Tree

  Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated

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• Growing up and living in England, I'm surrounded by grey skies and sarcasm, so when I came to America, my first impressions were bright, hopeful, cheerful.

  Stanley Donwood

  Growing Up, Sky, America

  "Radiohead Artist Stanley Donwood". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. September 15, 2010.

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• Sarcasm doesn't appear to work on him. If that's true, I'm in trouble: It's my normal mode of communication.

  Rick Yancey

  Communication, Normal, Trouble

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.144, Penguin

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• 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

  Pain, Kissing, Snow

  Kevin Hearne (2014). “The Iron Druid Chronicles 6-Book Bundle: Hounded, Hexed, Hammered, Tricked, Trapped, Hunted”, p.817, Del Rey

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• Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.

  Milton Friedman

  Sarcastic, Rights, Hell Hath No Fury

  Milton Friedman, William Richard Allen (1983). “Bright promises, dismal performance: an economist's protest”, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Inc.

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• The monkey is an organized sarcasm upon the human race.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Science, Race, Monkeys

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.

  P. D. James

  Sarcastic, Funny Friendship, War

  P.D. James (2012). “Shroud for a Nightingale”, p.327, Simon and Schuster

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• He didn't see me looking at him, but I could tell the ceremony was having the same effect on him. He was enraptured. It was a rare and sweet look for him, reminding me of the tortured artist that lived beneath the sarcasm. I liked that about Adrian—not the tortured part, but the way he could feel so deeply and then transform those emotions into art.

  Richelle Mead

  Sweet, Art, Looks

  Richelle Mead (2013). “The Indigo Spell: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.28, Penguin

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• We had and incident. I took care of it." "Really." Jace's voice dripped sarcasm. "Do you even know how to use that knife, Clarissa? Without poking a hole in yourself or any innocent bystanders?

  Cassandra Clare

  Bystanders, Knives, Voice

  Cassandra Clare (2009). “City of Ashes”, p.240, Simon and Schuster

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• All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

  Samuel Butler

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Notebooks (1912) ch. 1

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• La Zona is such a closed area, a dangerous, outlaw area. My time in the Zona was a time outside of society, almost out of the real world. And the girls there had such a sense of irony and sarcasm. They were also really interested in my film. They'd be like, "Thank God we live in Mexico, because our kind of prostitution has a heart. We wouldn't want to sit behind a glass cage or be sold by our own mothers. We have free will."

  Michael Glawogger

  Girl, Mother, Real

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

  Samuel Butler

  Sarcastic, Irony, Argument

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• 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.

  David Brinkley

  Sarcastic, Business, Tv News

  "One Man's America". Book by George F. Will, Chapter 15, Lingerie and Duct Tape (p. 118), 2008.

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• One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child's name and how old he or she is.

  Erma Bombeck

  Sarcastic, Children, Funny Life

  Erma Bombeck (1997). “Forever, Erma: Best-Loved Writing From America's Favorite Humorist”, p.153, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Funny, Sarcastic, Government

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• So, I bought a new CD and I was trying to get it open but couldn't with all the layers... I mean plastic and then tape, and the tape is like government tape. It says 'open here.' Is that sarcasm?

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Mean, Government, Cds

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• That's because we keep weapons int the attic, silly boy. Do you think this is the first time monsters have attacked our family?" "Weapons," Frank grumbled. "Right. I've never handled weapons before." Grandmother's nostrils flared. "Was that sarcasm, Fai Zhang?" "Yes, Grandmother." "Good. There may be hope for you yet.

  Rick Riordan

  Silly, Grandmother, Thinking

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• I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Sarcastic, Humor

  At night-club in Chicago, Mar. 1964, recorded on Woody Allen Volume Two (Colpix CP 488) side 1, band 6

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