Quotes about Sarcasm
But the Rabshakeh replied, “Has my master sent me to speak these words only to you and your master, and not to the men sitting on the wall, who are destined with you to eat their own dung and drink their own urine?”
- 2 Kings 18:27
In the same way, the chief priests, scribes, and elders mocked Him, saying,
- Matthew 27:41
A.D.D. MOMENT My favorite line is "For your convenience, an 18 percent gratuity has been added to your check." My convenience? Is that really convenient for me? That's about as insincere as "Your call is very important to us.
- Glenn Beck
I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all. Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live nor the smallest instinct about when to die.
- Oscar Wilde
How clever are you, my dear! You never mean a single word you say!
- Oscar Wilde
A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Smooth move, Ex-lax," I heard Art3mis say.
- Ernest Cline
Be agreeable, be sympathetic, be loving, be compassionate, be humble. That goes for all of you, no exceptions. No retaliation. No sharp-tongued sarcasm. Instead, bless—that's your job, to bless. You'll be a blessing and also get a blessing.
- Eugene Peterson
I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all.
- Oscar Wilde
I love irony.
- Lydia Millet
They are fond of fun and therefore witty, wit being well-bred insolence.
- Aristotle
Becky cried, and Tom tried to think of some way of comforting her, but all his encouragements were grown threadbare with use, and sounded like sarcasms.
- Mark Twain