Sarcasm Quotes - Page 4

There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.

The more repression there is, the more need there is for irreverence toward those who are responsible for that repression. But too often sarcasm passes for irony, name-calling passes for insight, bleeped-out four-letter words pass for wit, and lowest-common-denominator jokes pass for analysis. Satire should have a point of view. It doesn't have to get a belly laugh. It does have to present criticism.

Sarcasm is when you tell someone the truth by lying on purpose.

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

"There are one or two elementary rules to be observed in the way of handling patients," he remarked, seating himself on the table and swinging his legs. "The most obvious is that you must never let them see that you want them. It should be pure condescension on your part seeing them at all; and the more difficulties you throw in the way of it, the more they think of it. Break your patients in early, and keep them well to heel."

The lead singer of Creed says he won’t endorse President Obama. Well that settles it -- Obama will not win the 1998 presidential election.

It is after you have lost your teeth that you can afford to buy steaks.

Sarcasm helps me overcome the harshness of the reality we live, eases the pain of scars and makes people smile.

It's strange that men should take up crime when there are so many legal ways to be dishonest.

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.

Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.

The object of a comedy is not to correct morals or ridicule the vices of society; no, a comedy should depict the discrepancies between life and purpose, should be the fruit of bitter indignation aroused by the degradation of human dignity, should be sarcasm, and not an epigram, convulsive laughter and not an amused grin, should be written with bile and not diluted salt, in a word, it should embrace life in its highest significance.

I'll be spending the holidays with my family. Nothing special, just some light bickering and biting sarcasm.

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.

Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.

If you can't detect the sarcasm you've misunderstood.

"Dr. Munro, sir," said he, "I am a walking museum. You could fit what ISN'T the matter with me on to the back of a -- visiting card. If there's any complaint you want to make a special study of, just you come to me, sir, and see what I can do for you. It's not every one that can say that he has had cholera three times, and cured himself by living on red pepper and brandy."

Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.

Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind reception it meets with in the world, and that so very few are offended with it.

By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-inspection.

Art must always remain earnest... Art must be serious, no sarcasm, comedy. One does not laugh at a loved one.

The trouble with a kitten is that eventually it becomes a cat.

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

People love to admit they have bad handwriting or that they can't do math. And they will readily admit to being awkward: 'I'm such a klutz!' But they will never admit to having a poor sense of humor or being a bad driver.

Automatic simply means that you can?t repair it yourself.