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

  George Will

  Sarcastic, Keys, Government

  George F. Will (1986). “The Morning After: American Successes and Excesses, 1981-1986”, Macmillan Publishing Company

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• I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Sarcastic, Would Be, Affront

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• It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Wise, Witty, Stupid

  Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists: Stray Sayings"

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• My job is not to talk smack about anything. This is why I dislike strongly doing magazine articles: My personality does not translate to print. People don't read it as sarcasm, and it just comes off badly.

  Sandra Bullock

  Jobs, People, Personality

  "She's Strong, She's Sexy, She's Sandra Bullock". Interview with Anne Fletcher, www.glamour.com. May 31, 2009.

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• There are several differences between a footballl game and a revolution. For one thing, a football game usually lasts longer and the participants wear uniforms. Also there are more injuries at a football game.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Sarcastic, Football, Games

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• Sufficiently advanced political correctness is indistinguishable from sarcasm.

  Erik Naggum

  Political, Political Correctness, Correctness

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• It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Money

  "Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young" (1894)

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• On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.

  Virginia Woolf

  Funny, Art, Pain

  Virginia Woolf (2005). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.756, Wordsworth Editions

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• Any game plan? Xypher asked Sin. Don't die. I like it. Simple, bold. Impossible. Works for me. Kat scoffed at his sarcasm. What are you bitching about, Xypher? You're already dead. He laughed. You know, for once, it's good to be me.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Simple, Games, Impossible

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2007). “Devil May Cry: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.345, Macmillan

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

  John Knowles

  Weak, Protest

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• My plea is that we stop seeking out the storms and enjoy more fully the sunlight...I am asking that we look a little deeper for the good, that we still our voices of insult and sarcasm, that we more generously compliment and endorse virtue and effort.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Voice, Effort, Storm

  Gordon B. Hinckley (2009). “Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes”, p.117, Harmony

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• there is a fine line between sarcasm and hostility, you seemed to have crossed it. What's up?

  Cassandra Clare

  Lines, Fine, Hostility

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• When my wife and I met, I couldn't talk to her - and my defense mechanism is sarcasm. I belittle someone with verbal pokes and prods. I did it to her out of complete awe. When friends introduced us, I said 'Hi' - and turned my back. Later, I called my mom and best friend and said, 'I think I just met my wife.'

  Mike Vogel

  Mom, Thinking, Wife

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It is quite untrue that British people don't appreciate music. They may not understand it but they absolutely love the noise it makes.

  Thomas Beecham

  Sarcastic, People, Appreciate

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• Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrasment...They do everything but watch television.

  Lewis Thomas

  Sarcastic, Watches, Television

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• Puberty is the sickest joke God plays on us. So you're just noticing members of the sex: "Girls girls, ooo". Naturally you want to look your best, and God says "No! You will look the worst you've ever looked in your life!"

  Eddie Izzard

  Girl, Sarcastic, Sex

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• Irish was a man of parts even if some of them didn't work too well.

  Angela Carter

  Work, Men, Wells

  Angela Carter (2012). “Wise Children”, p.122, Random House

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• There seems to me to be absolutely no limit to the inanity and credulity of the human race. Homo Sapiens! Homo idioticus!

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Humorous, Race, Limits

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated)”, p.1779, Delphi Classics

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• Well, sir, let us do what we can to curtail this visit, which can hardly be agreeable to you, and is inexpressibly irksome to me.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Humorous, Wells

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2015). “Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Dover Reader”, p.301, Courier Dover Publications

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• We had got as far as this, when who should walk in but the gentleman himself, who had been drinking his beer in the taproom and had heard the whole conversation. Who was I? What did I want? What did I mean by asking questions? He had a fine flow of language, and his adjectives were very vigorous.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Humorous, Drinking, Mean

  Arthur Conan Doyle, General Press (2016). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 56 Stories & 4 Novels”, p.425, GENERAL PRESS

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• 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.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Humorous, Mean, Noses

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “The Return of Sherlock Holmes”, p.174, My Ebook Publishing House

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• His neighbor is a tooth-drawer. That bag at his girdle is full of the teeth that he drew at Winchester fair. I warrant that there are more sound ones than sorry, for he is quick at his work and a trifle dim in the eye.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Sorry, Humorous, Eye

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2015). “The White Company: Sherlock Holmes Collections”, p.36, 谷月社

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• There are more bad musicians than there is bad music.

  Isaac Stern

  Sarcastic, Musical, Musician

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• For some reason that only a sociologist might be able to accurately explain, the Brazilian Press was extremely unkind to me, reporting only selective derogatory untruthful rumors (some of which are still around), harsh criticism, and unwarranted sarcasm. I was very hurt by this. It was such great disappointment... When I came back from Brazil at that time, I made a promise to myself that I would never, ever again sing in Brazil. So far [as of 2002], I have kept this promise, having declined each and every invitation or proposals to perform in Brazil. Once was enough!

  Astrud Gilberto

  Music, Hurt, Disappointment

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• The sky was of the deepest blue, with a few white, fleecy clouds drifting lazily across it, and the air was filled with the low drone of insects or with a sudden sharper note as bee or bluefly shot past with its quivering, long-drawn hum, like an insect tuning-fork.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Humorous, Past, Clouds

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2015). “Beyond the City”, p.30, Sheba Blake Publishing

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