Sarcastic Quotes - Page 21

• Aw, now look at that, you're being sarcastic, aren't you?

  Alyson Noel

  Looks, Being Sarcastic

  Alyson Noel (2013). “The Immortals Bundle 1-3: The Immortals: Evermore, The Immortals: Blue Moon and The Immortals: Shadowland”, p.283, Pan Macmillan

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

  William Faulkner

  Music, Sarcasm, Use

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• It's all right for a perfect stranger to kiss your hand as long as he's perfect.

  Mae West

  Witty, Humorous, Kissing

  Mae West (1967). “The wit and wisdom of Mae West”

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• You may admire a girl's curves on the first introduction, but the second meeting shows up new angles.

  Mae West

  Girl, Witty, Humorous

  Mae West (1967). “The wit and wisdom of Mae West”

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• very funny my sarcastic friend

  Cassandra Clare

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• This worked out perfectly for me in college, because what nineteen-year-old Virginia boy doesn't want a wide-hipped, sarcastic Greek girl with short hair that's permed on top? What's that you say? None of them want that? You are correct.

  Tina Fey

  Girl, Boys, College

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• A nasty letter or a sarcastic one can make you righteously angry, but what can you do about a polite letter of rejection? Nothing, really, except cry.

  E. L. Konigsburg

  Rejection, Letters, Nasty

  E.L. Konigsburg (2015). “From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler”, p.79, Pushkin Press

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• The snow may be falling in the winter of my discontent, but at least I've got sarcastic company.

  John Green

  Fall, Winter, Snow

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.74, Penguin

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• Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Beautiful, Jealousy

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

  Ambrose Bierce

  Country, Art, Lying

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

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• Some people pay a compliment as if they expected a receipt.

  Kin Hubbard

  Funny, Sarcasm, People

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• We're weird guys. I don't know if a lot of people get our humor. A lot of people probably think we're jerks. We're real sarcastic. Really ironic and stuff. We mean well, but we joke around probably a lot more than we should.

  Brendon Urie

  Real, Mean, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When you're being earnest, people think you're being sarcastic and when you're being sarcastic, they think you're being earnest. The moral in all this, of course, is that people should never attempt to communicate.

  Charlie Brooker

  Thinking, People, Moral

  "Charlie Brooker answers your questions: 'I get angry to amuse myself'". Guardian interview, www.theguardian.com. February 6, 2013.

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• An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Sarcasm, Economics, Excellent

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• If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.

  Wilfrid Sheed

  Sarcasm, Intelligent, Speak English

  Wilfrid Sheed (1990). “Essays in Disguise”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• Living under capitalism, I like learning to feel comfortable with activity that does not result in success — since non-success is the norm. Trying your best and making it is not the norm — it’s propaganda. Of course I play with notions of hype, too... The entire Comatonse website is a sarcastic hype-engine, sprawling forever, overwhelming the viewer with nothingness.

  Terre Thaemlitz

  Play, Hype, Forever

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• I've learned that I need to spell out, even in cases seemingly so blatant, that in fact I am not taking this at face value and am being 'sarcastic.

  James Fallows

  Needs, Faces, Facts

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• Acting is like roller skating. Once you know how to do it, it is neither stimulating nor exciting.

  George Sanders

  Sarcasm, Acting, Skating

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't know what makes you so dumb but it really works.

  Russell Lynes

  Wise, Insults You, Dumb

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• Don't let you mind wander - it's far too small to be let out on its own.

  Russell Lynes

  Wise, Mind, Insult

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• I have witnessed and greatly enjoyed the first act of everything which Wagner created, but the effect on me has always been so powerful that one act was quite sufficient; whenever I have witnessed two acts I have gone away physically exhausted; and whenever I have ventured an entire opera the result has been the next thing to suicide.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Suicide, Powerful

  Mark Twain (1924). “Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review”, p.175, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• Was he joking? Was he being sarcastic? Aggressive? Impertinent? Or just courteous? There was no telling from his impassive face. What a country, he thought despairingly. In Russia you always knew. If a man made a stern face he was threatening; if he was laughing uproariously, he was joking.

  George Mikes

  Funny, Country, Humorous

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• Don't give a woman advice; one should never give a woman anything she can't wear in the evening.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Spiritual, Sarcasm

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• In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Sarcasm, Order, Play

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• Most of the time, the songs have jokes in them, little sarcastic things, or purposely kitsch or something. So that's going along with a story, like I do in life, just talking to myself and making fun of stuff and laughing at stuff that's serious. And sometimes it's a good idea to put the laughing into the songs. Sometimes it's not. Sometimes it's all right just to be serious. But most of the songs have some kind of joke in them.

  Paul Simon

  Song, Fun, Writing

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