Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lea Thompson

In my deepest parts of sadness, I'm always making a joke or being sarcastic.

Laurence J. Peter

Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.

Lee Westwood

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

P. J. O'Rourke

After all, what is your host's purpose in having a party? Surely not for you to enjoy yourself; if that were their sole purpose, they'd have simply sent champagne and women over to your place by taxi.

P. J. O'Rourke

The old woman was not only ugly with the ugliness age brings us all but showed signs of formidable ugliness by birth - pickle-jar chin, mainsail ears and a nose like a trigonometry problem. What's more, she had the deep frown and snit wrinkles that come from a lifetime of bad character.

P. J. O'Rourke

You can always reason with a German. You can always reason with a barnyard animal, too, for all the good it does.

Kristen Schaal

Sarcasm doesn't read sarcastic in print.

Olivia Munn

I'm really sarcastic. Not Morgan Webb sarcastic. She's dry, 100%. I'm different from her.

Oliver Goldsmith

I always get the better when I argue alone.

Oliver Goldsmith

He makes a very handsome corpse and becomes his coffin prodigiously.

Elizabeth Taylor

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

Peter Ustinov

If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Englishman who has lost his fortune is said to have died of a broken heart.

Lewis Thomas

Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrasment...They do everything but watch television.

Leslie Jamison

Post-​wounded women know that postures of pain play into limited and outmoded conceptions of womanhood. Their hurt has a new native language spoken in several dialects: sarcastic, jaded, opaque; cool and clever. They guard against those moments when melodrama or self-​pity might split their careful seams of intellect, expose the shame of self-​absorption without self-​awareness.

Lawrence G. Lovasik

A sarcastic person has a superiority complex that can be cured only by the honesty of humility.

Leo Tolstoy

He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style.

Peter Hook

Sarcasm is a Manchester trait.

Sean Penn

If there's anything disgusting about the movie business, it's the whoredom of my peers.

Tertullian

Now then, you dogs, whom the apostle puts outside and who yelp at the God of truth, let us come to your various questions.

Joseph Heller

He knew everything about literature except how to enjoy it.

Josh Billings

It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money.

Josh Billings

Man was created a little lower than the angels and has been getting a little lower ever since.

Josh Billings

Doesn't know much, but leads the league in nostril hair.

Josh Billings

When I see a man of shallow understanding extravagantly clothed, I feel sorry - for the clothes.

Josh Billings

When a young man begins to go down hill everything seems to be greased for the occasion.

Josh Billings

Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Otto von Bismarck

I have only one ambition left: I should like to have a good epitaph.

Oscar Wilde

Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.

Julian Lennon

Dad made me laugh a lot. He was a real comedian. He had a real sarcastic sense of humour, he could really make a fool out of people. I have to watch it a little bit, because I caught that habit from him. I was really fond of him. He was my idol.

Paul Theroux

The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Making others happy, through kindness of speech and sincerity of right advice, is a sign of true greatness. To hurt another soul by sarcastic words, looks, or suggestions, is despicable.

Pauline Kael

Her only flair is in her nostrils.