Sarcastic Quotes - Page 21

• People do not deserve to have good writing, they are so pleased with bad.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Funny, Writing, Sarcasm

  "Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1841-1843".

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• Are you kidding? He's arrogant, sarcastic, likes to intimidate people, and—oh." Okay. Maybe she had a point.

  Richelle Mead

  People, Arrogant, Likes

  "Vampire Academy Complete Series". Book by Richelle Mead, December 31, 2013.

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• He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Eye, Doe

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.266, Wordsworth Editions

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• Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Beautiful, Jealousy

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• The snow may be falling in the winter of my discontent, but at least I've got sarcastic company.

  John Green

  Fall, Winter, Snow

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.74, Penguin

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• A nasty letter or a sarcastic one can make you righteously angry, but what can you do about a polite letter of rejection? Nothing, really, except cry.

  E. L. Konigsburg

  Rejection, Letters, Nasty

  E.L. Konigsburg (2015). “From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler”, p.79, Pushkin Press

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• This worked out perfectly for me in college, because what nineteen-year-old Virginia boy doesn't want a wide-hipped, sarcastic Greek girl with short hair that's permed on top? What's that you say? None of them want that? You are correct.

  Tina Fey

  Girl, Boys, College

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• He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.

  William Faulkner

  Music, Sarcasm, Use

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• You may admire a girl's curves on the first introduction, but the second meeting shows up new angles.

  Mae West

  Girl, Witty, Humorous

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

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• It's all right for a perfect stranger to kiss your hand as long as he's perfect.

  Mae West

  Witty, Humorous, Kissing

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

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• Aw, now look at that, you're being sarcastic, aren't you?

  Alyson Noel

  Looks, Being Sarcastic

  Alyson Noel (2013). “The Immortals Bundle 1-3: The Immortals: Evermore, The Immortals: Blue Moon and The Immortals: Shadowland”, p.283, Pan Macmillan

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• You know, when most girls say they want a big rock, they don't mean, you know, literally a big rock." "Very amusing, my sarcastic friend. It's not a rock, precisely. All Shadowhunters have a witchlight rune-stone.

  Cassandra Clare

  Girl, Mean, Rocks

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.279, Simon and Schuster

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• Hey, pretty thing," he said. "What's in the bag?" "Holy water," said Jace, reappearing beside her as if he'd been conjured up like a genie. A sarcastic blond genie with a bad attitude. "Oooh, a Shadowhunter," said the vampire. "Scary." With a wink he melted back into the crowd. "Vampires are such prima donnas," Magnus sighed from the doorway. "Honestly, I don't know why I have these parties." "Because of your cat," Clary reminded him. Magnus perked up. "That's true. Chairman Meow deserves my every effort.

  Cassandra Clare

  Attitude, Party, Cat

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• I never said it would be easy, I only said it would be worth it.

  Mae West

  Witty, Humorous, Would Be

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• Love is like a booger, you pick and pick at it. Then when you get it you wonder how to get rid of it.

  Mae West

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

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• Getting married is like trading in the adoration of many for the sarcasm of one.

  Mae West

  Marriage, Witty, Humorous

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• Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?

  Ernest Hemingway

  Music, Clever, Sarcasm

  Quoted in A. E. Hotchner, Papa Hemingway (1966)

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• I was so furious I was actually dizzy with it. There were so many bitchy, sarcastic observations to make, I was having a sarcasm stroke. "My God! You people! You're - you're so stupid you're making my eyeballs throb. They're throbbing, dammit!

  MaryJanice Davidson

  Stupid, Sarcasm, People

  MaryJanice Davidson (2010). “Undead and Unfinished: A Queen Betsy Novel”, p.114, Penguin

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• I am in full possession of the amazing power of being sarcastic.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Sarcasm, Possession, Being Sarcastic

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2010). “The Demon's Covenant”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• This is what happened in love. One of you cried a lot and then both of you grew sarcastic.

  Lorrie Moore

  Relationship, Sarcasm, Love Sick

  FaceBook post by Lorrie Moore from May 16, 2012

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• To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Political, Firsts

  Oscar Wilde “The Picture of Dorian Gray - and more”, Eighty Pence Books

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• In my opinion, I think sarcasm and humor in a song, without turning it into a novelty song, is really charming.

  Alanis Morissette

  Song, Humor, Sarcasm

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• Muscles come and go; flab lasts.

  Bill Vaughan

  Fitness, Sarcasm, Lasts

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• I've been things and seen places.

  Mae West

  Witty, Humorous

  I'm No Angel (motion picture) (1933)

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• Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.

  Gore Vidal

  Book, Writing, Sarcasm

  FaceBook post by Gore Vidal from Nov 18, 2010

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