Sarcastic Quotes - Page 19

• An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Sarcasm, Economics, Excellent

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• When you're being earnest, people think you're being sarcastic and when you're being sarcastic, they think you're being earnest. The moral in all this, of course, is that people should never attempt to communicate.

  Charlie Brooker

  Thinking, People, Moral

  "Charlie Brooker answers your questions: 'I get angry to amuse myself'". Guardian interview, www.theguardian.com. February 6, 2013.

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• In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Sarcasm, Order, Play

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• We're weird guys. I don't know if a lot of people get our humor. A lot of people probably think we're jerks. We're real sarcastic. Really ironic and stuff. We mean well, but we joke around probably a lot more than we should.

  Brendon Urie

  Real, Mean, Thinking

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

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• Some people pay a compliment as if they expected a receipt.

  Kin Hubbard

  Funny, Sarcasm, People

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• Sarcasm is lost in print.

  Jon Cryer

  Sarcasm, Lost, Print

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• For some are in the habit of carrying about the name in wicked guile, while they still practice things unworthy of God. You must flee these as you would wild beasts. For they are ravening dogs, who bite secretly, against whom you must be on your guard, since they are men who can scarcely be cured.

  Ignatius of Antioch

  Dog, Men, Practice

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• Beethoven always sounds to me like the upsetting of a bag of nails, with here and there an also dropped hammer.

  John Ruskin

  Music, Sarcasm, Upset

  1881 Letter.

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• An appeal is when you ask one court to show its contempt for another court.

  Finley Peter Dunne

  Sarcasm, Court, Appeals

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• Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals.

  Finley Peter Dunne

  Food, Sarcasm, Looks

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• What are the proper proportions of a maxim? A minimum of sound to a maximum of sense.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Writing, Editing

  More Tramps Abroad ch. 23, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)

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• I did a picture in England one winter and it was so cold I almost got married.

  Shelley Winters

  Sarcasm, Winter, England

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty neck.

  Eli Wallach

  Beauty, Sarcasm, Criticism

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

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• Don't give a woman advice; one should never give a woman anything she can't wear in the evening.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Spiritual, Sarcasm

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• Acting is like roller skating. Once you know how to do it, it is neither stimulating nor exciting.

  George Sanders

  Sarcasm, Acting, Skating

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

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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

  Writing, Sarcasm, Talking

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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

  Mother, Gay, Sarcasm

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• I'm a sarcastic person. I learn through humor.

  Rachel Maddow

  Sarcastic Person, Persons

  "Rachel Maddow’s Star Power". Interview with Clara Jeffery, www.motherjones.com. January/February 2009.

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

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Sarcasm, Feelings, Mind

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• You have sensible women here [in England] but then, they are very devils--censorious, uncharitable, sarcastic--the women in Scotland have twice--thrice their freedom, with all their virtue--and are very conversable and agreeable--their educations are more finished.

  Fanny Burney

  Women, Scotland, Devil

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• My natural-born sarcasm, when it's unimpeded, can be a bit overbearing at times and I'm the first to admit that.

  Tom Bergeron

  Sarcasm, Firsts, Natural

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• Creative semantics is the key to contemporary government; it consists of talking in strange tongues lest the public learn the inevitable inconveniently early.

  George Will

  Sarcasm, Keys, Government

  George F. Will (1986). “The Morning After: American Successes and Excesses, 1981-1986”, Macmillan Publishing Company

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• My whole family is very sarcastic and constantly making jokes.

  Emily Deschanel

  Whole Family, Jokes, Very Sarcastic

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

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• Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrasment...They do everything but watch television.

  Lewis Thomas

  Sarcasm, Watches, Television

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• It's strange that men should take up crime when there are so many legal ways to be dishonest.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Sarcasm, Men, Way

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