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Sarcastic Quotes - Page 19

You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well.

Carrie Fisher (2011). “Postcards From the Edge”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

A sophisticated rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.

Referring to Gladstone in a speech at a banquet in The Duke of Wellington's Riding School, Knightsbridge, 27 July 1878: 'The Times' 29 July 1878

diplomacy, n.: The patriotic art of lying for one's country.

Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.47, 谷月社

The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness.

Paul Theroux (1976). “The great railway bazaar: by train through Asia”

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.810, GENERAL PRESS

Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty.

Lillian Hellman, Jackson R. Bryer (1986). “Conversations with Lillian Hellman”, p.70, Univ. Press of Mississippi

A satisfied customer. We should have him stuffed.

John Cleese, Connie Booth (2001). “The Complete Fawlty Towers”, p.164, Da Capo Press