Quotes About Sardonic

In the winter of 1932, when two friends picked him up from the Bronxville train station, he remarked sardonically, "I want to stop by the house for a minute, and check the nursery and see if there's anybody new in the family." He came out and exclaimed, "By God, there is!" (It was Teddy, born on February 22.)

I just always remember there being an ability to amuse schoolmates. Not in a kind of 'dance-around-at-the-front-of-the-room-with-his-trousers-off' way, but probably with a sardonic quip. I remember getting a school report that said something like, 'Steve's good, but he tries to see the funny side in everything.'

As Jeffers' prisoners berated themselves for being caught in the diplodocus cage, the man suddenly turned and came back. Once more he gave a chilling, sardonic laugh.

Most hard-boiled people are half-baked.

He still had his tie on, a knitted tie with a flat bottom. It looked crocheted; it looked like a doily. Our biology master wore ties like that but George was the only boy you'd catch dead in one. He was both the oldest and youngest of us, the most fuddy-duddy and innocent, and I could see that his innocence extended to this question of sardonic intent. His poem, alas, was perfectly serious.

Obviously, when I first came to the land of blond-haired, blue-eyed surfer types, I was the sardonic, sarcastic, liquor-swilling, chain-smoking, dark-haired, dark-eyed guy from New York.

U was zawsze ironia i ironia.

Christianity, the King remarked sardonically, was 'stuffed with miracles, contradictions and absurdities, was spawned in the fevered imaginations of the Orientals and then spread to our Europe, where some fanatics espoused it, some intriguers pretended to be convinced by it and some imbeciles actually believed it'.

Healer, hear me. I have need of blood, and this one before me, Julian, the golden twin, has said you will vouch for him. No one can voice for one such as Julian. He is a loner, a law unto himself, but his blood is untainted. If Julian turns, it will be Aidan or I who hunts him, no others. Avail yourself of what he offers. "Did he give me a good recommendation?" Julian's smile was frankly sardonic.

In our native terms, the ironic style is often compounded with the sardonic and the hard-boiled; even the effortlessly superior. But irony originates in the glance and the shrug of the loser, the outsider, the despised minority. It is a nuance that comes most effortlessly to the oppressed.

The wisps of her crisp dark hair blew about her as she stooped, her eyes were big and wide and dark, when she looked up again, strange, startled, shy and sardonic at once.

Any suburban mother can state her role sardonically enough in a sentence: it is to deliver children — obstetrically once and by car forever after.

odor in his clothes and beard and flesh too which I believed was the smell of powder and glory, the elected victorious but know better now: know now to have been only the will to endure, a sardonic and even humorous declining of self-delusion which is not even kin to that optimism which believes that that which is about to happen to us can

What the hell happened?' Jack asked, grinning. 'Slight accident in the marshland,' Gwen said. 'We wandered off the path at Greendown Moss. Big mistake.' 'That's a relief,' Owen said with a sardonic smile. 'For a moment I thought you'd been mud-wrestling together and I'd missed it.' 'In your dreams.' 'Only when I'm bored, girls. Only when I'm bored.

Feed the lettuce to the bunny and eat the bunny

Es que todo lo que tengo no se puede dar. Ni tomar. Yo misma puedo morir de sed ante mí. La soledad está mezclada en mi esencia... [...] -Cuando me acerqué- dijo, él sardónico- pensé que ibas a enseñarme algo más que eso. Necesitaba aquello que había adivinado en ti y que tú siempre me negaste.

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

I'm a 'the glass is half-empty and filled with poison' kind of guy, actually

The recent signing of the Coalition Compact had only further marginalized Mars in favor of the far more populous political centers on Earth and Centauri III, earning the Red Planet such sardonic sobriquets as "the cosmic Canada.

I have a dark sense of humor.