Mark Twain Quotes about Sarcasm

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Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.

Mark Twain

Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Stubborn

I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.

Mark Twain

Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Compliment

Mark Twain (2016). “Mark Twain's Speeches”, p.203, Xist Publishing

Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.

Mark Twain

Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Knowing

Mark Twain, Louis J. Budd (1992). “Collected tales, sketches, speeches, & essays: 1891-1910”

I have seen slower people than I am and more deliberate... and even quieter, and more listless, and lazier people than I am. But they were dead.

Mark Twain

Funny, Sarcastic, Sarcasm

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.442, Courier Corporation

It is believed by everyone that when he was in heaven he was stern, hard, resentful, jealous and cruel, but that when he came down to earth, he became the opposite... sweet, gentle merciful, forgiving. He was a thousand billion times crueler than ever he was in the Old Testament... Meek and gentle? By and by we will examine that popular sarcasm by the light of the hell which he invented.

Mark Twain

Sweet, Jealous, Sarcasm

I would like to live in Manchester, England. The transition between Manchester and death would be unnoticeable.

Mark Twain

Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Transition

Mark Twain, Bob Blaisdell (2013). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.27, Courier Corporation

Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.

Mark Twain

Sarcastic, Party, Sarcasm

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.328, Courier Corporation

I find that the further I go back, the better things were, whether they happened or not.

Mark Twain

Funny, Sarcastic, Sarcasm

...Man is a marvelous curiosity. When he is at his very very best he is a sort of low grade nickel-plated angel; at his 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

Angel, Sarcasm, Men

Mark Twain, Paul Baender (1973). “What Is Man? and Other Philosophical Writings”, p.405, Univ of California Press