Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kyle Smith

The characters are so flat and the dialogue so dull you expect it to be one of those movies whose existence is justified by a big final twist. But it's three days after the screening, and still no twist. Maybe it's coming in the mail?

Liberace

What you said hurt me very much. I cried all the way to the bank.

Jon Cryer

Sarcasm is lost in print.

Johnny Carson

He's so fat, he can be his own running mate.

John Cleese

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

Luther Vandross

The best things in life are free

Eric Hoffer

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.

Orhan Pamuk

Oscar Wilde always makes me smile - with respect and admiration. His short stories prove that it is possible to be both sarcastic, even cynical, but deeply compassionate. Just seeing the cover of one of Wildes books in a bookshop makes me smile.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

In order to know whether a human being is young or old, offer it food of different kinds at short intervals. If young, it will eat anything at any hour of the day or night.

Ellen Glasgow

In her single person she managed to produce the effect of a majority.

Ellen Glasgow

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Rachel Maddow

I'm a sarcastic person. I learn through humor.

John Green

The snow may be falling in the winter of my discontent, but at least I've got sarcastic company.

Cassandra Clare

She realized that this scarred, sarcastic boy, was gentle with the things he loved.

Cassandra Clare

I thought I'd lie on the floor and writhe in pain for a while," he grunted, "It relaxes me." "It does? Oh - you're being sarcastic. That's a good sign probably.

Krysten Ritter

I am sarcastic and dry, but I also have a pretty huge zest for life.

P. G. Wodehouse

He was either a man of about a hundred and fifty who was rather young for his years, or a man of about a hundred and ten who had been aged by trouble.

P. G. Wodehouse

Why don't you get a haircut? You look like a chrysanthemum.

Paul Newman

It's always darkest before it turns absolutely pitch black.

Pamela Hansford Johnson

You slam a politician, you make out he's the devil, with horns and hoofs. But his wife loves him, and so did all his mistresses.

Julia Quinn

Nonetheless, I can't help but be flattered that you noticed the latest addition to my collection," he said. She rolled her eyes. "Because personal injuries are such a dignified thing to collect." "Are all governesses so sarcastic?

Moliere

He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.

Molly Ivins

He was so narrow minded he could see through a keyhole with both eyes.

Milton Berle

Why are we honoring this man? Have we run out of human beings?

Kim Harrison

Somehow I found him. Somehow I found Al's sarcastic thoughts, bitter and old. Tired, angry, bored. Alone.

Mark Twain

You take the lies out of him, and he'll shrink to the size of your hat; you take the malice out of him, and he'll disappear.

Mark Twain

He was a solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity.

Mark Twain

His ignorance covers the world like a blanket, and there's scarcely a hole in it anywhere.

Mark Twain

Germany, the diseased world's bathhouse.

Mark Twain

He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages.

Mark Twain

'Don't you worry, and don't you hurry.' I know that phrase by heart, and if all other music should perish out of the world it would still sing to me.

Mark Twain

I could never learn to like her, except on a raft at sea with no other provisions in sight.

Mark Twain

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.