Sarcasm Quotes - Page 16

• Might I trouble you to open the window, for chloroform vapour does not help the palate.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Humorous, Doe, Chloroform

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “Sherlock Holmes. Selected Stories”, p.313, OUP Oxford

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• Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner. You have attempted to tinge it with romanticism, which produces much the same effect as if you worked a love-story or an elopement into the fifth proposition of Euclid.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Humorous, Science, Stories

  The Sign of the Four ch. 1 (1890)

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• A fine horse or a beautiful woman, I cannot look at them unmoved, even now when seventy winters have chilled my blood.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Beautiful, Horse, Humorous

  Stephen Crane, Ambrose Bierce, Rudyard Kipling, Philip K. Dick, Jules Verne (2011). “The Military MEGAPACK ®: 25 Great Tales of War”, p.295, Wildside Press LLC

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• My uncle, Mr. Stephen Maple, had been at the same time the most successful and the least respectable of our family, so that we hardly knew whether to take credit for his wealth or to feel ashamed of his position.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Uncles, Humorous, Successful

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated)”, p.6226, Delphi Classics

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• Sarcasm doesn't read sarcastic in print.

  Kristen Schaal

  Sarcastic, Print

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. January 20, 2011.

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• My parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles were all funny, and I felt that energy, that delivery, that timing, that sarcasm. All that stuff seeped into my brain.

  Jeff Ross

  Uncles, Aunt, Grandparent

  "Comedy, Then and Now: Laughing With the Legends of Stand-Up From the 1800’s to 2010" by Steve North, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 6, 2010.

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• Few authors are so interesting as their work - they generally reserve their wit or trenchant sarcasm for their books.

  Alec-Tweedie

  Book, Interesting, Wit

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• Sometimes Americans don't quite get my sense of humor. My good ol' British sarcasm seems to go over their heads.

  Lee Westwood

  Sarcastic, Sense Of Humor, Sometimes

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• I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is the language I don't understand.

  Edward Victor Appleton

  Funny, Music, Sarcastic

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• Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!

  George Bernard Shaw

  Love, Life, Sex

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• They take the paper and they read the headlines. So they've heard of unemployment and they've heard of bread-lines. And they philanthropically cure them all by getting up a costume charity ball.

  Ogden Nash

  Funny, Unemployment, Balls

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• People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

  Ogden Nash

  Funny, People, Sitting Down

  Ogden Nash (1941). “The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash”, Garden City publishing company, inc

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• The arrow always tipped with ill nature and sarcasm is deadliest to him who sends it.

  Prentice Mulford

  Law Of Attraction, Arrows, Ill

  Prentice Mulford (2016). “Thoughts are Things”, p.26, Prentice Mulford

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• My two souls, the socially conscious one and the lighthearted one, are always in my movies because they find a perfect habitat in my grotesque style, which combines tragedy and humor, irony and sarcasm, comedy and drama. I also feel that rules are made to be broken, especially in art! I prefer creative disorder to strict rules.

  Lina Wertmuller

  Art, Drama, Broken

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit -- or a mask. . . . The foregoing maxim shows the difference between truth and sarcasm.

  William Hazlitt

  Men, Differences, Vices

  William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.527

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• The secret of a successful restaurant is sharp knives.

  George Orwell

  Funny, Sarcastic, Successful

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• When you are dissatisfied and would like to go back to youth, think of Algebra.

  Will Rogers

  Sarcastic, Thinking, Youth

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• It's wildly irritating to have invented something as revolutionary as sarcasm, only to have it abused by amateurs.

  Christopher Moore

  Revolutionary, Irritating

  Christopher Moore (2009). “Lamb: A Novel”, p.148, Hachette UK

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• Can the sarcasm,' he said. 'Please, I always use fresh sarcasm, never canned.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Use, Said, Anita Blake

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2002). “Circus of the Damned: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.113, Penguin

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• Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?

  Ernest Hemingway

  Music, Sarcastic, Clever

  Quoted in A. E. Hotchner, Papa Hemingway (1966)

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• He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.

  William Faulkner

  Music, Sarcastic, Use

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• There is a great need for a sarcasm font.

  Darynda Jones

  Funny, Sarcastic, Novelists

  Darynda Jones (2012). “Third Grave Dead Ahead”, p.26, Macmillan

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• It's better to be black than gay because when you're black you don't have to tell your mother.

  Charlie Pierce

  Sarcastic, Mother, Gay

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• Politics makes estranged bedfellows.

  Goodman Ace

  Sarcastic, Bedfellows

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• Somebody says, 'Do a Tom Bodett, a folksy kind of thing,' and it sounds like something out of 'Hee Haw,' very insulting. They turn wry humor into disparaging sarcasm, and you get what amounts to insulting advertising.

  Tom Bodett

  Insulting, Sound, Kind

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