Quotes of Sarcastic - somelinesforyou

“ Too caustic? To hell with cost; we'll make the picture anyhow. Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg. We have all passed a lot of water since then. ”

- Samuel Goldwyn

“ When I was a boy, unconsciously, spontaneously I learned the art of telling ironic stories. ”

- Dario Fo

“ If it's a woman, its caustic; if it's a man, it's authoritative. - Barbara Walters. ”

- Barbara Walters

“ See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails? ”

- Will Rogers

“ Memories are like stones, time and distance erode them like acid. ”

- Ugo Betti

“ Faith is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience. ”

- James Russell Lowell

“ Nothing can allay the rage of biting envy. ”

- Claudian

“ A satirical poet is the check of the laymen on bad priests. ”

- John Dryden

“ The acid test of politics is not what you say at the hustings, but what you actually do in government. ”

- Margaret Thatcher

“ Prayer is the acid test of devotion. ”

- Samuel Chadwick

“ He that hath a satirical vein, as maketh others afraid of his wit, so he need be afraid of others' memory. ”

- Francis Bacon

“ Care is no cure, but rather corrosive,For things that are not to be remedied. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets. ”

- W. Somerset Maugham

“ It's ironic that in our culture everyone's biggest complaint is about not having enough time; yet nothing terrifies us more than the thought of eternity. ”

- Dennis Miller

“ This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one. ”

- Arthur C. Clarke

“ Cannes is a very strange place. I tried to show up as best I could and to try not to be cynical. ”

- Lili Taylor

“ Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility. ”

- Errol Morris

“ What is ironic is that equating Zionism with Jewishness, is adopting the very tactic favoured by anti-semites. ”

- Judith Butler

“ I just really don't like being the center of attention that much. It's kind of ironic. ”

- Jimmy Fallon

“ In one case this disaster has been made much worse by deliberate and cynical government policies. ”

- Helen Clark

“ Everything is ironic to me. There are moments I find hysterical, but I'm probably the only one who would find that, except for a few people. ”

- River Phoenix

“ If you've never seen an elephant ski, you've never been on acid. ”

- Eddie Izzard

“ Music is the only language in which you can not say a mean or sarcastic thing. ”

- Lord Erskine

“ Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then? ”

- Walt Whitman

“ There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world. ”

- Jean Baudrillard

“ 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

“ A sarcastic person has a superiority complex that can be cured only by the honesty of humility. ”

- Lawrence G. Lovasik

“ Revenge is often like biting a dog because the dog bit you. ”

- Austin O’Malley

“ Mail your packages early so the post office can lose them in time for Christmas. ”

- Johnny Carson

“ We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Utopian; and so cynical that the only Utopia we can believe in is authoritarian. ”

- Lionel Trilling
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