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Quotes About Sarcasm

Twitter is just full of silly little people enjoying being sarcastic and rude and mocking.
~ Michaela Coel
I didn't take the death-and-dismemberment talk very seriously. Where could you rent a chainsaw at this time of night?
~ Sue Grafton
I`ve collected his life insurance, that`s how dead he is!
~ Sue Grafton
Positive humor is one of our most valuable tools for strengthening family bonds. But humor that belittles can be extremely damaging within the family. Children take sarcasm and humorous exaggeration at face value. They are not worldly enough to understand that a parent is joking when he says something like, "We're going to have to send you to preschool in China." Instead, the child may have nightmares about being abandoned in some frightening, distant land.
~ Susan Forward
Sarcasm is like Jell-O. It's always the right time and there's always room.
~ Susan Mallery
It's Maya," Phoebe said. Zane turned and followed her gaze. "Just perfect," he muttered as his ex-stepsister walked toward them. "You're looking grim, Zane," Maya said cheerfully when she joined them. "Who died?" She smiled. "Oh, I forgot. You're just being your usual charming self." She squeezed his arm. "You've missed me, I know." Zane's eyes narrowed. "Like foot fungus.
~ Susan Mallery
Silas's last book: mother lying-in with her eleventh upstairs, father laid-out after his ninth downstairs, eldest son lying to the Government in the cow-shed, eldest daughter lying with her lover in the hayloft, everyone else lying low in the barn. The rain dripped from the thatch, and the manure steamed in the midden. Silas never omitted the manure.
~ Josephine Tey
You're kind of a smart ass when you're not flat on your face.
~ Josh Lanyon
People love a happy ending. So every episode, I will explain once again that I don't like people. And then Mal will shoot someone. Someone we like. And their puppy.
~ Joss Whedon
Telling a women beater who is clearly a control freak, binge drink and drug taker who by the way probably drives his car whilst intoxicated there's plenty more fish in the sea I would touch this prick with a blunt barge pole if I was shark shit!!!! Yes this is a sarcastic comment as its definately not a great comment by this so called Judge.
~ Judge Martin Rudland
What's your dad do? I said. Designs new and better wings for new and better sing nuts, he said proudly. It sounded like he was repeating something a sarcastic adult had said.
~ Judy Budnitz
Nonetheless, I can't help but be flattered that you noticed the latest addition to my collection," he said. She rolled her eyes. "Because personal injuries are such a dignified thing to collect." "Are all governesses so sarcastic?
~ Julia Quinn
What are you up to?" she asked. "Why would you think I'm up to anything?" Her lips pursed before she said, "You wouldn't be you if you weren't up to something." He smiled at that. "I do believe that was a compliment." "It wasn't necessarily intended as such." "But nonetheless," he said mildly, "that's how I choose to take it.
~ Julia Quinn
Let it be said, Marcus thought dryly,that nothing cooled a man's ardor like the Crusades.
~ Julia Quinn
Do you live here?" Sophie asked dryly. "No," he said, plopping down into the chair next to her, "although my mother is constantly telling me to make myself right at home.
~ Julia Quinn
Me?" "Yes, you," Lady Danbury grumbled. "I'd be happy to talk with someone else if you could find me a body with more than half a brain." Penelope choked on the beginnings of laughter as she motioned to her companions. "Er, I assure you that Lady Bridgerton—" Lady Bridgerton was furiously shaking her head. "She's too busy trying to get that oversized brood of hers married off," Lady Danbury announced
~ Julia Quinn
My heart swells," she mimicked. She snapped out of her caricature, and said sternly, "Woman don't like to be on the receiving end of sarcasm." "They only like to give it," he drawled.
~ Julia Quinn
Nobody ever thinks it's nice to see me...But I thank you for lying all the same. ~ Lady Danbury
~ Julia Quinn
All genuinely intellectual work is humorous.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Laughter is the deadliest weapon of all: with laughter you can murder anything, even murder.
~ Evgeny Zamjatin
To be thought to be a moron to the eyes of an idiot is a gourmet's sensual delight!
~ Fabrice
taking the piss?
~ Faith Martin
It makes me feel tired about how guarded we are the whole time. Without even trying we're ready to make a joke of everything, serving up the day with big dollops of irony and derision and cynicism. As if. Sucked in. Kidding.
~ Fiona Wood
A mother-in-law dies only when another devil is needed in hell.
~ Francois Rabelais