Quotes About Sarcasm

I like an English sense of humor: dry, dirty, a little bit off. That's kind of my taste.

When you're writing about cops from the perspective of cops, that level of sarcasm about their job and how they treat people will color the writing to a certain extent.

Why did the wise guys always accuse other people of being wise guys?

Sometimes I am so dry that people don't know I'm kidding and think I'm being serious. I enjoy this because their reactions are often funny.

How is that asshole?" "He still loves you and wants you to bear his children." "I'd rather pull my uterus out through my nostrils with a coat hanger.

Ridiculous," he said breathlessly. "You ought to give up detecting and try fantasy writing.

Ouiser, you sound almost chipper. What happened today - you run over a small child or something?" ~Clairee (Steel Magnolias)

I'm about as useful as a fingerless eunuch during Fuck Fest February! someone give me a gun!

comic cynicism

Still here, Faulkner? Luke sneered. Still doing that terrible impression of Draco Malfoy? I asked.

I could tell that my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and a radio.

What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth.

I cannot countenance the traditional belief that postulates a natural dichotomy between the objectivity of the scientist and the subjectivity of the writer, as if the former were endowed with a 'freedom' and the latter with a 'vocation' equally suitable for spiriting away or sublimating the actual limitations of their situation. What I claim is to live to the full contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth.

Ciò che reclamo è vivere la piena contraddizione del mio tempo, che mai così bene ha reso al sarcasmo la condizione della verità.

He turned to Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar, a bespectacled Republican with a grizzled beard, who was born in Concord, Massachusetts, and attended Harvard College and Law School. A former member of the Free-Soil Party, an upright gentleman of starchy integrity, he had served on the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court where he used sarcasm to savage lesser mortals. "When on the bench," wrote an observer, "he was said to be unhappy because he could not decide against both litigants.

You're a big girl's blouse

I hear they feed you in Sing Sing," Evie muttered. "Three squares a day." "Evangeline," Will said with a sigh. "Charity begins at home." "So does mental illness.

Evie replied with an eye-roll. "Do you think you can manage to not steal anything while I'm gone?" "The only thing I'm trying to steal is your heart, doll." Sam smirked. "You're not that talented a thief, Sam Lloyd.

Beauty, grace, and charm my foot. It's a school for sadists with good tea-serving skills.

Yes, after all, if I were to join you, I might enjoy myself, and wouldn't that be a shame? Please, don't spare me another thought.

Mengejek adalah cara yang sangat tidak menyenangkan untuk menyatakan kebenaran.

But now to die would be, indeed, to give way to the sarcasm of destiny.

derision. (Psalm

Don't look at me in that tone of voice.