Sarcastic Quotes - Page 23

• very funny my sarcastic friend

  Cassandra Clare

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• I saw what a mess a lot of people could make of their lives when they're smitten. Some of them go temporarily insane. They find a person who they think holds the key to their happiness-the only key to their happiness... My work has always been my greatest happiness

  Mae West

  Witty, Humorous, Thinking

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• Everyone has a purpose in life. Perhaps yours is watching television.

  David Letterman

  Funny, Purpose, Television

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• So yes, this is a show about an adolescent girl, her friends, and various vampires. Vampires writing in diaries, vampires attending high school, vampires investigating various mysterious supernatural events, vampires tormenting each other, vampires eavesdropping on each other, and vampires being sarcastic about other vampires' hairstyles. Vampires embracing every possible opportunity to take off their shirts.

  Kelly Link

  Girl, School, Writing

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• I was very bored at school. I found it very easy and slow and grey. My teachers didn't really know how to handle me, because I was very sarcastic. I was over-confident, arrogant, a typical youngest child. I went through periods of withdrawing into myself and school psychologists tried to figure me out, work out why I didn't fit in. I found that irritating, too.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Teacher, Children, School

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• It's a fitting irony that under Richard Nixon "launder" became a dirty word.

  William Zinsser

  Dirty, Sarcasm, Irony

  "On Writing Well". Book by William Zinsser (Chapter 7: Usage, p. 47), 1976.

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• When you are dissatisfied and would like to go back to youth, think of Algebra.

  Will Rogers

  Sarcasm, Thinking, Youth

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• Sarcastic people tend to be marshmallows underneath the armor

  Stephen King

  People, Armor, Marshmallow

  Stephen King (2016). “11/22/63: A Novel”, p.453, Simon and Schuster

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• An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.

  Alfred A. Knopf, Sr.

  Sarcasm, Men, Investing

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• Nonetheless, I can't help but be flattered that you noticed the latest addition to my collection," he said. She rolled her eyes. "Because personal injuries are such a dignified thing to collect." "Are all governesses so sarcastic?

  Julia Quinn

  Eye, Helping, Injury

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• I thought I dreamed you." The words whisper from my parched throat. His head tilts to one side, his mouth shifting to something less sarcastic, more amused. "That may be the most enchanting thing I've ever been told after spending the night with a girl.

  Tammara Webber

  Girl, Night, Tilt

  Tammara Webber (2011). “Good For You”, p.199, Tammara Webber

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• No one can have everything, so you have to try for what you want most.

  Mae West

  Witty, Humorous, Trying

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• She realized that this scarred, sarcastic boy, was gentle with the things he loved.

  Cassandra Clare

  Boys, City Of Lost Souls, Gentle

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “City of Lost Souls”, p.397, Simon and Schuster

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• Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food, and few things in the world are more wearying than a sarcastic attitude towards life.

  Agnes Repplier

  Positive, Attitude, Sarcasm

  Agnes Repplier (1893). “Essays in Idleness”, Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin

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• After all, what is your host's purpose in having a party? Surely not for you to enjoy yourself; if that were their sole purpose, they'd have simply sent champagne and women over to your place by taxi.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Laughter, Humorous, Party

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• Yeah, he's in pain except between the first and ninth innings

  Dave Bristol

  Pain, Firsts, Yeah

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• The lyrics were my sarcastic way of realizing you can't be the king of the hill all the time.

  Hayley Williams

  Kings, Way, Realizing

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• No matter how you care to define it, I do not identify with the local group. Planet, species, race, nation, state, religion, party, union, club, association, neighborhood improvement committee; I have no interest in any of it. I love and treasure individuals as I meet them, I loathe and despise the groups they identify with and belong to.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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• Post-​wounded women know that postures of pain play into limited and outmoded conceptions of womanhood. Their hurt has a new native language spoken in several dialects: sarcastic, jaded, opaque; cool and clever. They guard against those moments when melodrama or self-​pity might split their careful seams of intellect, expose the shame of self-​absorption without self-​awareness.

  Leslie Jamison

  Hurt, Clever, Pain

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• It's a match made in heaven...by a retarded angel.

  Woody Allen

  Love, Angel, Heaven

  The Curse of the Jade Scorpion, www.imdb.com. 2001.

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• It's a sort of piss-take on culture, because a drag queen is a clown - a parody of our society. It's a sarcastic spoof on culture, which allows us to laugh at ourselves - but in a way that is inclusive of everyone.

  RuPaul

  Queens, Laughing, Culture

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• The trouble with a kitten is that eventually it becomes a cat.

  Ogden Nash

  Cat, Sarcasm, Trouble

  "The Face is Familiar: The Selected Verse of Ogden Nash".

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• Everything comes to him who waits, except a loaned book.

  Kin Hubbard

  Funny, Book, Sarcasm

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• I catch fire and find the reserves of courage and assertiveness to speak up. When that happens I get quite carried away. My blood gets hot my brow wet I become unbearably and unconscionably sarcastic and bellicose I am girded for a total showdown.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Fire, Blood, Hot

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• I squirm when I see athletes praying before a game. Don't they realize that if God took sports seriously he never would have created George Steinbrenner.

  Mark Russell

  Sports, Athlete, Sarcasm

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