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Quotes About Sarcasm

What's a practical nurse? One who marries a wealthy old patient.
~ Barry Dougherty
No Kidding! Don't you hate it when a Mean Girl says something mean, and then adds, "Just kidding." Like that helps!
~ Bart King
You would have to be born with a gene that doesn't allow you to recognize sarcasm if you take anything I say seriously.
~ Forrest Griffin
I recommend a little dose of cancer to anyone.
~ Jennifer Saunders
Reed Scott is really good at coming up with insults.
~ Timothy Simons
Nothing gets a bigger laugh than when you refer to things like ethics or human rights.
~ Ron Silver
I'm not a particularly shiny, happy person. I'm fairly cynical, and that's what draws me to comedy.
~ Elizabeth Banks
To take my work seriously would be the height of folly.
~ Edward Gorey
She looks like she combs her hair with an egg beater.
~ Hedda Hopper
He would say that God had given him a tail to keep the flies off, but that he would sooner have had no tail and no flies.
~ George Orwell
Irony is just honesty with the volume cranked up.
~ George Saunders
In Far East Distant Outer Horner, a lush verdant zone where cows' heads grew out of the earth shouting sarcastic things at anyone that passed, which, though lush and verdant, was unpopulated because the cows sarcasm was so withering.
~ George Saunders
Compassion certainly seems to be wasted on you, sir!' she said tartly. 'Yes, of course it is. Besides, I like you, and I shan't if you pity me.
~ Georgette Heyer
I don't mean to hurt you,' she assured him. `In fact, I told Lucius I did not wish them to hurt you more than was needful, and I do hope they did not?' `Oh, not at all, ma'am! I like being hit over the head with cudgels!' he said sardonically.
~ Georgette Heyer
It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you.
~ Will Rogers
Comedy always works best when it is mean-spirited.
~ John Cleese
My instinct is to be honest and make fun of things.
~ Jim Norton
I have sex," Grace shrugged. I meant with a man," Claudia said dryly. Now why would I ruin something so good by inviting a man along?" Grace asked.
~ Sarah Mayberry
It's a strange fucking world, and mostly the joke's on us.
~ Sarah Monette
I am in full possession of the amazing power of being sarcastic.
~ Sarah Rees Brennan
I was rolling my eyes so hard that I was sure one of my retinas had just detached itself
~ Sarra Manning
What she lacks in poetry she makes up for in venom
~ Sarra Manning
Until you finally lose the strength for sarcasm, Locke, I wouldn't hire any mourners.
~ Scott Lynch
Remember how she joked about twenty armed people in the next room?" said Jean with a sigh. He set down the book he'd been reading. "There were twenty armed men in the next room.
~ Scott Lynch