Famous Quotes & Sayings

Al Capp

Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Charles Kingsley

He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.

Alanis Morissette

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

Jane Green

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.

Sydney Smith

Scotland: That garret of the earth - that knuckle-end of England - that land of Calvin, oatcakes, and sulfur.

Sydney Smith

He not only overflowed with learning, but stood in the slop.

Barbet Schroeder

Colombian humor is very black, very sarcastic.

Brendon Urie

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.

Brittany Murphy

I do sarcasm really poorly.

Dick Cavett

Being the offspring of English teachers is a mixed blessing. When the film star says to you, on the air, 'It was a perfect script for she and I,' inside your head you hear, in the sarcastic voice of your late father, 'Perfect for she, eh? And perfect for I, also?'

Eden Sher

I have some sarcastic sides of me.

Earl Long

A four-hundred-dollar suit on him would look like socks on a rooster.

Augusten Burroughs

It was unnerving, the way she could go from cool efficiency to sarcastic to sweet within the space of thirty seconds. I found it very manipulative and controlling. It put the other person constantly on-guard. And it was extremely intimidating because you never knew when she was going to snap. I made a mental note to refine these skills within myself.

Arthur Miller

He's liked, but he's not well liked.

Benjamin Disraeli

A sophisticated rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.

Benjamin Disraeli

Little things affect little minds.

Benjamin Disraeli

He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.

Ben Folds

Everything I write is personal, really. Even when I'm sarcastic, it's quite personal. And on this record, from the production to the singing to the performances, I got it really honest. To the modern ear, it seems soft. When you hear it against other things, it seems vulnerable. Lyrically and musically, though, this is more subtle. And, yes, it's asking a lot of someone who's used to being hit over the head with bright neon to listen to this.

C. S. Lewis

She's the sort of woman who lives for others - you can tell the others by their hunted expression.

Elizabeth Taylor

Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.

Ashley Benson

I don't want to be with someone boring because I'm always laughing. I to play jokes on people and be sarcastic.

Ashleigh Brilliant

We've been through so much together, and most of it was your fault.

Ashleigh Brilliant

I want to reach your mind - where is it currently located?

Ashleigh Brilliant

If you can smile when things go wrong, you have someone in mind to blame.

Ashleigh Brilliant

I will always love the false image I had of you.

Alexander Woollcott

She was like a sinking ship firing on the rescuers.

While [the Arians], like men sprung from a dunghill, truly "spoke from the earth" [Jn. 3:31], the bishops [of Nicea], not having invented their phrases for themselves, but having testimony from their fathers, wrote as they did. For ancient bishops, of the great Rome and our city [i.e., Alexandria, Egypt, where Athanasius was bishop], some 130 years ago, wrote and censured those who said that the Son was a creature and not consubstantial with the Father.

Allan Sloan

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

A. E. Housman

Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.

Ada Leverson

She could carry off anything; and some people said that she did.

Samuel Butler

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

Carl Jung

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

D. H. Lawrence

Curse the blasted, jelly-boned swines, the slimy, the belly-wriggling invertebrates, the miserable soddingrotters, the flaming sods, the sniveling, dribbling, dithering, palsied, pulse-less lot that make up England today. They've got white of egg in their veins, and their spunk is that watery it's a marvel they can breed.