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Sarcastic Quotes - Page 23

He is an old bore. Even the grave yawns for him.

In Max Beerbohm Herbert Beerbohm Tree (1920) appendix 4

What is the use of straining after an amiable view of things, when a cynical view is most likely to be the true one?.

George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.776, e-artnow

Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.

Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.152, 谷月社

She was like a sinking ship firing on the rescuers.

Alexander Woollcott (1951). “The Indispensable Woollcott”

We'll love you just the way you are if you're perfect.

Song: Perfect, Album: Jagged Little Pill, 1995

In Russia a man is called reactionary if he objects to having his property stolen and his wife and children murdered.

Winston Churchill (1987). “The Irrepressible Churchill: Stories, Sayings and Impressions of Sir Winston Churchill”, London : Robson Books