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Quotes About Acerbity

There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature.
~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan
She spoke in a caustic tone that would surely have burned out anyone else's tongue had they attempted it.
~ Kate Elliott
I can be accused of being acerbic as a critic and writer.
~ Rod Lurie
There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature.
~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan
You, sir, are a twat.
~ John Goode
What she lacks in poetry she makes up for in venom
~ Sarra Manning
I conclude you must be a natural horses's ass.
~ Spider Robinson
Cherries can be very poetic and appealing, when we pick them from our garden tree. If we understand, they have flown thousands of miles for our pleasure, in winter time, they become, however, an item of suspicion and acerbity. ("No cherries anymore in winter time" )
~ Erik Pevernagie
That's because Wit is an asshole
~ Brandon Sanderson
EPIGRAM, n. A short, sharp saying in prose or verse, frequently characterize by acidity or acerbity and sometimes by wisdom.
~ Ambrose Bierce
He called me a quadrilateral astronomical incandescent son of a bitch.
~ Mark Twain, 1903
Beginning with a critique of my own limbs, which she said, justly enough, were nothing to write home about, this girl went on to dissect my manners, morals, intellect, general physique, and method of eating asparagus with such acerbity that by the time she had finished the best you could say of Bertram was that, so far as was known, he had never actually committed murder or set fire to an orphan asylum.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
EPIGRAM, n. A short, sharp saying in prose or verse, frequently characterize by acidity or acerbity and sometimes by wisdom. Following are some of the more notable epigrams of the learned and ingenious Dr. Jamrach Holobom:
~ Ambrose Bierce