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Quotes About Sarcasm

There's a helluva distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
~ Dorothy Parker
Don't look at me in that tone of voice.
~ Dorothy Parker
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
~ Dorothy Parker
Emma has just rung and sarcastically asked me if I was ever planning on asking her out again. After fighting back my initial reaction to answer 'only if you're going to put out this time,' I told her that, in these days of equality, it was her turn to ask me. Which, amazingly enough, she did.
~ Dougie Brimson
Billy walked up to the car and bent down to look inside. 'Major Foster, what a pleasant surprise,' he said sarcastically. 'I'm glad you've popped round; it gives me the chance to tell you to f**k off.' Foster smiled in response
~ Dougie Brimson
Life! Don't talk to me about life.
~ Douglas Adams
It's impossible to say. Normal motives don't necessarily apply to psychopathic personalities. Jeffrey Dahmer murdered and cannibalized seventeen people, three of whose skulls were found in his refrigerator." "That's perfectly rational behavior," said Desh sarcastically. "He just didn't want them to spoil.
~ Douglas E. Richards
They weren't really looking for repentance; postmodern irony would do. When
~ Douglas Wilson
I am sarcastic and dry, but I also have a pretty huge zest for life.
~ Krysten Ritter
Unfortunately for novelists, real life is getting way too funny and far-fetched.
~ Carl Hiaasen
I can be much more sarcastic and, I think, sometimes withering in my assessments of things than I allow to show in my public life.
~ Barack Obama
God bless the homicidal maniacs. They make life worthwhile.
~ George Carlin
Are you always a smartass?' Nope. Sometimes I'm asleep.
~ Jim Butcher
Are you always a smartass?' Nope. Sometimes I'm asleep.
~ Jim Butcher
Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.
~ Jim Carrey
If done right, kidnapping can be a positive experience for everyone.
~ Jim Carrey
Sincere empathy works wonders. Sarcastic empathy backfires every time.
~ Jim Fay
I think my sense of humor is Jewish. I'm smarter than most white people, which is kind of a Jewish thing, too.
~ Jim Goad
I've noticed that when people are joking they're usually dead serious, and when they're serious, they're usually pretty funny.
~ Jim Morrison
They say men can never experience the pain of childbirth. They can... if you hit them in the goolies with a cricket bat for fourteen hours.
~ Jo Brand
If God wanted us to bend over he would put diamonds on the floor
~ Joan Rivers
Suddenly, the gods have stopped saying yes and have started making really obnoxious farting noises. In my face. With their armpits.
~ Jody Gehrman
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die." —MEL BROOKS
~ Ann Whitford Paul
She tried to allow herself only one biting remark an hour, and she had already overstepped her allowance.
~ Anne Stuart