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• What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth.

  Roland Barthes

  Sarcastic, Time, Truth

  Roland Barthes (1973). “Mythologies”

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• I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Life, Sarcastic

  In Leo Rosten People I have Loved, Known or Admired (1970) "Groucho"

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• Sarcasm is the language of people whose emotions are dying.

  Barry Webster

  People, Dying, Emotion

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• No, Groucho is not my real name. I am breaking it in for a friend.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Sarcastic, Real

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• Out of the unconscious lips of babes and sucklings are we satirized.

  Mark Twain

  Lips, Cynicism, Babe

  Mark Twain (1966). “Mark Twain's "Which Was the Dream?" and Other Symbolic Writings of the Later Years”, p.57, Univ of California Press

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• I have had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Cute, Sarcastic

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• He loves nature in spite of what it did to him.

  Forrest Tucker

  Sarcastic, Nature, Insult

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• I grew up in an environment of jokes and sarcasm and puns. I talk that way, so I write that way.

  Allan Sloan

  Sarcastic, Writing, Talking

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• Without sarcasm I sink into chaos.

  Antonin Artaud

  Chaos

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• If you can smile when things go wrong, you have someone in mind to blame.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Sarcastic, Feelings, Mind

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• I believe no satirist could breathe this air. If another Juvenal or Swift could rise up among us tomorrow, he would be hunted down. If you have any knowledge of our literature, and can give me the name of any man, American born and bred, who has anatomised our follies as a people, and not as this or that party; and who has escaped the foulest and most brutal slander, the most inveterate hatred and intolerant pursuit; it will be a strange name in my ears, believe me.

  Charles Dickens

  Believe, Party, Men

  Charles Dickens (2016). “Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit”, p.280, Xist Publishing

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• The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule, sarcasm, merely stating an alternative point of view to the orthodoxy, can be interpreted as insult.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Sarcastic, Views, Criticism

  "Rowan Atkinson: we must be allowed to insult each other". www.telegraph.co.uk. October 18, 2012.

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• Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.

  Alan Dundes

  Inspirational, Funny, Christmas

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• Weather forecast for tonight: dark.

  George Carlin

  Sarcastic, Laughter, Smart

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• Laughing at someone else is an excellent way of learning how to laugh at oneself; and questioning what seem to be the absurd beliefs of another group is a good way of recognizing the potential absurdity of many of one's own cherished beliefs.

  Gore Vidal

  Laughing, Way, Groups

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• Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.

  Lord Byron

  Song, Fool, Satire

  'English Bards and Scotch Reviewers' (1809) l. 5

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• 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.

  Paul Klee

  God, Men, Ill Will

  Paul Klee, Felix Klee (1968). “The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918”, p.122, Univ of California Press

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• To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Family, Sarcastic

  The Importance of Being Earnest act 1 (1895)

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• Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.

  Mark Twain

  Fake People, Truth, Inspirational Life

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• Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.

  Mark Twain

  Sarcastic, Stubborn, Statistics

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• 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

  Sarcastic, Mean, People

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• Sarcasm is lost in print.

  Jon Cryer

  Sarcastic, Lost, Print

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  When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I'm beginning to believe it.

  Clarence Darrow

  Funny, Sarcastic, Believe

  Quoted in Irving Stone, Clarence Darrow for the Defense (1941)

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• Every time I look at you I get a fierce desire to be lonesome.

  Oscar Levant

  Funny, Sarcastic, Loneliness

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• How do you feel about women's rights? I like either side of them.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Hilarious, Sarcastic

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