Sarcasm Quotes

Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Soul, Last, Privacy

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

Good, Long, Reason

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.
Samuel Butler

Irony, Neither, Argument

Canada has a passive-aggressive culture, with a lot of sarcasm and righteousness. That went with my weird messianic complex. The ego is a fascinating monster. I was taught from a young age that I had to serve, so that turned into me thinking I had to save the planet.
Alanis Morissette

Age, Ego, Thinking

In my opinion, I think sarcasm and humor in a song, without turning it into a novelty song, is really charming.
Alanis Morissette

Humor, Opinion, Song

This music won't do. There's not enough sarcasm in it.
Samuel Goldwyn

Music, Enough, Won

Sarcasm doesn't translate in print at all.
Megan Fox

Print, Translate

I grew up in an environment of jokes and sarcasm and puns. I talk that way, so I write that way.
Allan Sloan

Talk, Write, Jokes

We are suffering from too much sarcasm.
Marianne Moore

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.
Rowan Atkinson

Problem, Insult, Point

My natural-born sarcasm, when it's unimpeded, can be a bit overbearing at times and I'm the first to admit that.
Tom Bergeron

Times, Bit, Admit

I do sarcasm really poorly.
Brittany Murphy

Sarcasm is a Manchester trait.
Peter Hook

Manchester, Trait

Sarcasm is weird. Even not in acting, in life I feel like 'sarcastic' is a word that people use to describe me sometimes so when I meet someone, it's almost like they feel like they have to also be sarcastic, but it can sometimes just come off as mean if it's not used in the right way.
Aubrey Plaza

Life, Someone, Mean

Avoid sarcasm. Don't insist on the last word.
Ford Frick

Last, Word, Avoid

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

Humor, Good, Sometimes

I'd like to do more stuff with less sarcasm.
Sara Gilbert

You had to learn at a certain age what sarcasm is, you know?
Penny Marshall

What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth.
Roland Barthes

Time, Truth, Live

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

Funny, Parents, Brain

Sarcasm is lost in print.
Jon Cryer

My brothers are both 6 ft. 5 in., and if you have younger brothers who are bigger than you then you have to learn the ancient martial art of sarcasm.
Nick Moran

Art, Learn, Both

My son Cooper has just turned ten and the sarcasm fairy has already started to take up residence inside his body. Not only am I living with my mother - again! - but I've also got her mini-me to contend with.
Melissa Rivers

Mother, Living, Son

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