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Quotes About Sarcasm

You think I'm inclined to walk in on a day like today and deliberately twist his breeches? If your father says 'bark like a dog,' I say 'What breed, Your Honor?' 
~ Scott Lynch
Q: Why do women rub their eyes when they get up in the morning? A: Because they don't have balls to scratch.
~ Scott McNeely
I did that thing where you scratch your eyebrow and flip someone off at the same time. I'm good at multitasking like that.
~ Darynda Jones
I'm having a difficult time killing my parents
~ T. J. Miller
When it's time to stop living, I will certainly make Death my number one choice!
~ Terry Pratchett
Well, there are times when one would like to hang the whole human race and finish the farce.
~ Mark Twain
Man is a marvelous curiosity. When he is at his very very best he is a sort of low grade nickel-plated angel; at is worst he is unspeakable, unimaginable; and first and last and all the time he is a sarcasm. Yet he blandly and in all sincerity calls himself the noblest work of God.
~ Mark Twain
It is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people's manners, but drowning would help.
~ Mark Twain
Warum wimmelt es nicht von Büchern, die Hohn und Spott über diese jämmerliche Welt, das sinnlose All, die gewalttätige, niederträchtige Menschheit ausgießen und die ganzen lumpigen Zustände der Lächerlichkeit preisgeben? Merkwürdig, Millionen von Menschen sterben jedes Jahr mit diesen Gefühlen im Herzen. Weshalb schreibe ich nicht so ein Buch? Weil ich eine Familie zu ernähren habe. Deshalb.
~ Mark Twain
If a stranger called and interrupted you, you said with your hearty tongue, I'm glad to see you, and said with your heartier soul, I wish you were with the cannibals and it was dinner-time. When
~ Mark Twain
You do beat all for natural stupidness.
~ Mark Twain
Becky cried, and Tom tried to think of some way of comforting her, but all his encouragements were grown threadbare with use, and sounded like sarcasms.
~ Mark Twain
My heart applauds inside my ears, first like a roaring crowd, then slows and slows until it's a solitary person, clapping with unbridled sarcasm. Clap. Clap. Clap. Well done, Ed. Well given up.
~ Markus Zusak
Si Alemania es hoy en día, según yo creo, una de las naciones más resistentes al miedo y más equilibradas de Europa, es muy posible que sea porque, en lugar de maldecirse sarcásticamente unos a espaldas de los otros, los políticos de ambos lados realmente se sientan a hablar y a reflexionar.
~ Martha C. Nussbaum
Melrose winced. He lived in a world of dried-up pheasant and one-liners.
~ Martha Grimes
with the flat smile of the deeply inconvenienced.
~ Martin Amis
Elizabeth, with sarcasm and a sense of being lost: Oh indeed! Indeed!
~ Arthur Miller
It was unnerving, the way she could go from cool efficiency to sarcastic to sweet within the space of thirty seconds. I found it very manipulative and controlling. It put the other person constantly on-guard. And it was extremely intimidating because you never knew when she was going to snap. I made a mental note to refine these skills within myself.
~ Augusten Burroughs
I couldn't help but think, This car is taking me to a mental hospital and my mother is treating it like open-mic night at a Greenwich Village café.
~ Augusten Burroughs
I conclude you must be a natural horses's ass.
~ Spider Robinson
You know, Michael, it's not absolutely true in every case that nobody likes a smart ass.
~ Stanley Kubrick
Voglio dormire fino alla morte, magari di qualcun altro
~ Stefano Benni
Surely she had endured enough for one evening without having to listen to intelligent conversation?
~ Stella Gibbons
they were really having fun being cynical, and I didn't want to ruin it.
~ Stephen Chbosky