Famous Quotes & Sayings

Woody Allen

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

Rufus Choate

Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument.

William Hazlitt

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

Jonathan Swift

It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.

Jonathan Swift

Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind reception it meets with in the world, and that so very few are offended with it.

John Cleese

It's a plastic surgeon you need, not a doctor

Joey Lauren Adams

Stay with me; I want to be alone

Cassandra Clare

We had and incident. I took care of it." "Really." Jace's voice dripped sarcasm. "Do you even know how to use that knife, Clarissa? Without poking a hole in yourself or any innocent bystanders?

Cassandra Clare

Sarcasm is the last refuge of the imaginatively bankrupt.

Richelle Mead

You made your own jean shorts...with a butter knife?

Rick Riordan

But magic is neither good nor evil. It is a tool, like a knife. Is a knife evil? Only if the wielder is evil.

Vera Farmiga

Someone once told me that religion is like a knife: You can stab someone with it, or you can slice bread with it.

Robin Hobb

One had a knife. But I had a staff and was trained to use it.

William Blake

The lamb misused breeds public strife And yet forgives the butcher's knife.

W. S. Gilbert

If I can wheedle A knife or a needle, Why not a Silver Churn?

William Cobbett

If the people of Sheffield could only receive a tenth part of what their knives sell for by retail in America, Sheffield might pave its streets with silver.

Robert M. Pirsig

When analytic thought, the knife, is applied to experience, something is always killed in the process.

Wally Lamb

All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.

Carl Jung

If you insist on the chase," I say, my voice much surer than I feel."Then you better start training. 'Cause, dude you're in for a marathon.

Richelle Mead

No," he said, voice thick and husky. His fingers dug into the chair's arms. "You'd better not get too close." I stopped, laughing softly. "You don't strike me as the assaulting type, Mortensen." "Yeah, well, there's a first time for everything.

Richelle Mead

Only what?” I asked. I could barely hear my own voice. He turned his gaze back to me, firm and unflinching. “Only… more human.” And that was it. All the anger and sorrow vanished. There was nothing in me. Nothing at all. I was empty. “Get out,” I said.

Richelle Mead

Don't touch her," he growled. There was a note in his voice that would of scared me if it had been directed toward me. He shoved me behind him, putting his body protectively in front of mine with my back to the table. Guardians came at us from all directions,and Dimitri began dispatching them with the same deadly grace that had once made people call him a god.

Richelle Mead

Are you sleepwalking?' A voice asked behind me. "I was testing dorm security," I said. "It sucks.

Richelle Mead

Roza." His voice had that same wonderful lowness, the same accent . . . it was all just colder. "You forgot my first lesson: Don’t hesitate.

Richelle Mead

Oh," he said to Kiyo, voice completely devoid of emotion. "I see. It's your turn again.

Richelle Mead

They’re waiting for you. Go on in.” Adrian leaned close to Keith’s ear and spoke in an ominous voice. “If.You.Dare.” He poked Keith’s shoulder and gave a "Muhahaha” kind of monster laugh.

Richard Ben-Veniste

Without the tape-recorded evidence demonstrating irrefutably, in Nixons own voice, his knowledge of and active involvement in obstruction of justice, it is likely that Nixon would have escaped impeachment and removal from office.