logo

Quotes About Sarcasm

Ci metti sopra le chiese, i conventi, i libri - sembrano così importanti, i libri, disse con sarcasmo, tu ci hai dedicato tutta la tua vita - e il male sfonda il pavimento e sbuca dove non te l'aspetti.
~ Elena Ferrante
My tone must have seemed hostile, even though I wasn't angry or offended; there was just a touch of sarcasm. He tried to respond but he did so in an awkward, muddled way, half in dialect, half in Italian. He said he was sure that his mother was wandering around Naples as usual.
~ Elena Ferrante
Arabic also has a far greater facility to communicate sarcasm, and it can be employed precisely, or with pitch-perfect irony.
~ Anthony Shadid
Without sarcasm I sink into chaos.
~ Antonin Artaud
A person who lacks enthusiasm loves sarcasm.
~ Anuj Somany
Your sarcasm is unwelcome here, Horseman," the Crowfather rasped at him. "Pity. It seems determined to follow me everywhere.
~ Ari Marmell
Wit is well-bred insolence.
~ Aristotle
Boy George is all England needs - another queen who can't dress.
~ Joan Rivers
I find myself to be quite sarcastic, and I wouldn't want to be with someone who didn't get that.
~ Andreja Pejic
I quite like dark humor.
~ Marina and the Diamonds
We all know how funny Morrissey is. Actually, you know what? I say that sarcastically. His songs are some of the funniest songs I've ever heard in my life. I mean, really. I mean, not that the 'Girlfriend in a Coma' is, like, really funny.
~ Zach Galifianakis
Es extremadamente listo, considerando lo estúpido que es.
~ Frederik Pohl
Aphorisms should be peaks – and those who are addressed, tall and lofty. The air thin and pure, danger near, and the spirit full of gay sarcasm: these go well together.
~ Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
A vast percentage of the human race is literally not wired neurologically to get irony. Well more than half of humanity takes life at face value, which is to me terrifying.
~ Douglas Coupland
Irreverence is easy - what's hard is wit.
~ Tom Lehrer
Wit is the lowest form of humor.
~ Alexander Pope
Americans just don't understand dry wit.
~ John Oliver
Comedy comes with a bit of sarcasm, wit and edginess.
~ Kiku Sharda
I'm keeping my acerbic wit completely fueled.
~ Janice Dickinson
Wit is the most rascally, contemptible, beggarly thing on the face of the earth.
~ Arthur Murphy
People are always saying, 'You use irony,' and it's like, actually, we don't use irony: we use wit and playfulness and irreverence.
~ Giles Deacon
I'd call it a new version of voodoo economics, but I'm afraid that would give witch doctors a bad name.
~ Geraldine Ferraro
I want to thank you for taking time out of your day to come and witness my hanging.
~ George W. Bush
There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature.
~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan