Sarcasm Quotes - Page 8

It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money.

Man was created a little lower than the angels and has been getting a little lower ever since.

It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.

Sarcasm... the protest of those who are weak.

When ideas fail, words come in very handy.

There should be a rule against your own inner monologue throwing around that much sarcasm.

An epitaph is a belated advertisement for a line of goods that have been permanently discontinued.

Creative semantics is the key to contemporary government; it consists of talking in strange tongues lest the public learn the inevitable inconveniently early.

Do unto yourself as your Neighbours do unto Themselves and look Pleasant.

I did not understand that she was hiding her feelings under irony, that this is usually the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded, and that their pride makes them refuse to surrender till the last moment and shrink from giving expression to their feelings before you. to have guessed the truth from the timidity with which she had repeatedly approached her sarcasm, only bringing herself to utter it at last with an effort.

Avoid sarcasm. Don't insist on the last word.

The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.

Perfume: any smell that is used to drown a worse one.

The National Rifle Association says, 'Guns don't kill people. People do'. But I think the gun helps.

The old system of having a baby was much better than the new system, the old system being characterized by the fact that the man didn't have to watch.

A lot of people think my sarcasm comes from insecurity and defensiveness, but I assure you I'm just being petty and cruel.

Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.

That's the difference between irony and sarcasm. Irony can be spontaneous, while sarcasm requires volition. You have to create sarcasm.

At the best, sarcasms, bitter irony, scathing wit, are a sort of swordplay of the mind. You pink your adversary, and he is forthwith dead; and then you deserve to be hung for it.

Research is an organized method for keeping you reasonably dissatisfied with what you have.

Sarcasm is the language of people whose emotions are dying.

I can do only one thing at a time, but I can avoid doing many things simultaneously.

And yet the motives of women are so inscrutable. You remember the woman at Margate whom I suspected for the same reason. No powder on her nose - that proved to be the correct solution. How can you build on such a quicksand? Their most trivial action may mean volumes, or their most extraordinary conduct may depend upon a hairpin or a curling tongs.

One dumb-bell, Watson! Consider an athlete with one dumb-bell. Picture to yourself the unilateral development - the imminent danger of a spinal curvature. Shocking, Watson, shocking!

This looks like one of those unwelcome social summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie.