Sarcasm Quotes

Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it. (Thomas Carlyle)
Sarcasm is a Manchester trait. View quote
Peter Hook
I'd like to do more stuff with less sarcasm. View quote
Sara Gilbert
The spirit of sarcasm lives and thrives in the midst of universal wreck; its balls are enchanted and itself invulnerable, and it braves retaliations and reprisals because itself is a mere flash, a bodiless and magical nothing. View quote
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Sarcasm is the last refuge of the imaginatively bankrupt. View quote
Cassandra Clare
Neither irony or sarcasm is argument. View quote
Samuel Butler (novelist)
If there is no sarcasm, there's no true love towards the mankind. View quote
Dmitry Pisarev
Many consider that Shostakovich is the greatest 20th-century composer. In his 15 symphonies, 15 quartets, and in other works he demonstrated mastery of the largest and most challenging forms with music of great emotional power and technical invention...All his works are marked by emotional extremes – tragic intensity, grotesque and bizarre wit, humour, parody, and savage sarcasm. View quote
Dmitri Shostakovich
That's the difference between irony and sarcasm. Irony can be spontaneous, while sarcasm requires volition. You have to create sarcasm. View quote
Christopher Moore (author)
Sarcasm is the last refuge of the imaginatively bankrupt. View quote
Martha Wells
Alright, you'll get your bonus, buy play nice with her. Keep your sarcasm to a minimum. (Kyrian) Yes, O Great Lord and Master. Be nice to woman, keep mouth shut. (Nick) (Sherrilyn Kenyon)
You really don't want to take that tone with me. (Varyk) Well, I do have several others we can choose from. Contemptuous. Angry. Snide. Aggravated. How about I just settle on extreme sarcasm and we call it even? (Dev) View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
You know, your sarcasm isn't appreciated right now. I've been drugged, beaten, nearly raped, saved, drugged again, hijacked, and now threatened by you. Tell me, what else should I look forward to? Torture, or just a good maiming? (Kiara) View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
It wasn't sarcasm." Graves blew out a cloud of acrid smoke. "It was pointing out a fallacy in your logic, babe." Anna's jaw actually dropped. For a moment, I wasn't sure if I should laugh or push him out of the room. Way to go, Graves. View quote
Lilith Saintcrow
Oh, dear me." Nathalie sank back down in the chair and examined her Uggs. "The sarcasm could've started dripping off her and stained the floor. "Is it conspiracy, treachery, murder, or open warfare? I'll have to choose my lipstick accordingly. View quote
Lilith Saintcrow
The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule, sarcasm, merely stating an alternative point of view to the orthodoxy, can be interpreted as insult. View quote
Rowan Atkinson
You know, Gilan, sarcasm isn't the lowest form of wit. It's not even wit at all. View quote
John Flanagan
Sarcasm helps me overcome the harshness of the reality we live, eases the pain of scars and makes people smile. View quote
Mahmoud Darwich
I grew up in an environment of jokes and sarcasm and puns. I talk that way, so I write that way. View quote
Allan Sloan
Sarcasm is weird. Even not in acting, in life I feel 'sarcastic' is a word that people use to describe me sometimes so when I meet someone, it's almost they feel they have to also be sarcastic, but it can sometimes just come off as mean if it's not used in the right way. View quote
Aubrey Plaza
Avoid sarcasm. Don't insist on the last word. (Ford Frick)
When I first started writing, I was living in England and I had that uniquely English sense of sarcasm, which has definitely seemed to have left me. I am a naturalized American and my sensibility has become far more American. View quote
Jane Green
Sarcasm is lost in print. View quote
Jon Cryer
Sarcasm doesn't read sarcastic in print. View quote
Kristen Schaal
Sometimes Americans don't quite get my sense of humor. My good ol' British sarcasm seems to go over their heads. View quote
Lee Westwood