Sarcastic Quotes - Page 17

• Failure has gone to his head.

  Wilson Mizner

  Work, Gone

  "Eighty-Five from the Archive: Alva Johnston" by Erin Overbey, www.newyorker.com. March 3, 2010.

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• Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

  Samuel Butler

  Sarcasm, Irony, Argument

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• He is an old bore. Even the grave yawns for him.

  Herbert Beerbohm Tree

  Graves, Bores

  In Max Beerbohm Herbert Beerbohm Tree (1920) appendix 4

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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

  Sarcasm, Views, Criticism

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

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• Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Time, Sarcasm, Past

  1978 In the San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Jan.

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• Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, People, Dumb

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “An Ideal Husband”, p.51, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Writing, Years

  "The Soul of Man Under Socialism" (1891)

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• Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Funny, Art, Humorous

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2450, Delphi Classics

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• He is brilliant - to the top of his boots.

  David Lloyd George

  Boots, Brilliant

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• Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided.

  Mae West

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

  Mae West (1967). “The wit and wisdom of Mae West”

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• Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Life, Travel, Funny Inspirational

  "Jerry Seinfeld: 'I'm Telling You for the Last Time'". Documentary, Comedy, 1998.

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• If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

  Quentin Crisp

  Funny, Success, Failure

  "Writer, colorful gay figure Quentin Crisp dead at 90". www.cnn.com. November 21, 1999.

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• If you're gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Love, Funny, Life

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• The world is so dreadfully managed, one hardly knows to whom to complain.

  Ronald Firbank

  Civilization, Complaining, World

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• You never realize how short a month is until you pay alimony.

  John Barrymore

  Funny, Money, Sarcasm

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

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Hilarious, Crazy

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• It's a plastic surgeon you need, not a doctor

  John Cleese

  Sarcasm, Doctors, Needs

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• Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Death, Sarcasm, Relief

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• Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.

  Milton Friedman

  Sarcasm, 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 time for action is past! Now is the time for senseless bickering!

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Sarcasm, Past, Statistics

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• His ignorance is encyclopedic.

  Abba Eban

  Clever, Ignorance, Sarcasm

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• Usually I just let my songs do the talking. As a matter of fact I have long had an aversion to celebrities endorsing politics, and in some cases even other causes. I wonder about their motives. And I have to admit when celebrities get involved in political campaigns I tend to get a little bit sarcastic about it.

  John Fogerty

  Song, Talking, Long

  Source: www.citypages.com

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• Being Politically Correct means always having to say you're sorry.

  Charles Osgood

  Sorry, Mean, Reality

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• I do this real moron thing, and it's called thinking. And apparently I'm not a very good American because I like to form my own opinions.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Witty, Real

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• Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Humor

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.88, St. Martin's Press

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