“ Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it. ”
- Thomas Carlyle- Copy
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“ Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded. ”
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky- Copy
- 687
“ 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- Copy
- 481
“ I met this wonderful girl at Macy's. She was buying clothes and I was putting Slinkies on the escalator. ”
- Steven Wright- Copy
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“ A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of width. ”
- Steven Wright- Copy
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“ I tend to like very bitchy women. I find myself most attracted to smart, sarcastic, bitchy women. ”
- Lea DeLaria- Copy
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“ He has to learn that petulance is no sarcasm, and that insolence is not invective. ”
- Benjamin Disraeli- Copy
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“ I'm good at being sarcastic with guys. They don't want the quiet, prissy little things. ”
- Jessica Alba- Copy
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“ The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you. ”
- Frederick Buechner- Copy
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“ You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen. ”
- Jean Paul Sartre- Copy
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“ A lot of people say to me, 'Why did you kill Christ?' I dunno, it was one of those parties, got out of hand, you know. ”
- Lenny Bruce- Copy
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“ Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous, when you think about it. ”
- Lenny Bruce- Copy
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“ By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation. Nobody can describe foolishness in life without much patient self-inspection. ”
- Frank Moore Colby- Copy
- 1.5K
“ I refused to attend his funeral. But I wrote a very nice letter explaining that I approved of it. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ Out of the unconscious lips of babes and sucklings are we satirized. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ I've never had sex with Benicio Del Toro in a lift. It was a sarcastic quote that I unfortunately gave to a journalist. I said: 'Apparently, Benicio Del Toro and I had sex in an elevator. He printed it, then all the tabloids took out the word 'apparently'… ”
- Scarlett Johansson- Copy
- 3.3K
“ Everything I write is personal, really. Even when I'm sarcastic, it's quite personal. And on this record, from the production to the singing to the performances, I got it really honest. To the modern ear, it seems soft. When you hear it against other things, it seems vulnerable… ”
- Ben Folds- Copy
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