Famous Quotes & Sayings

Christina Ricci

It's so normal for a teenager to dress in black -- and be real unhappy and stay in your room and say sarcastic things. How could something so normal be considered morbid?

Fred Allen

He was so narrow minded that if he fell on a pin it would blind him in both eyes.

Fred Allen

He's so small, he's a waste of skin.

Fred Allen

Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.

George Jean Nathan

The triumph of sugar over diabetes.

George Orwell

The secret of a successful restaurant is sharp knives.

Franz Grillparzer

Critics are reprimanded when they get sarcastic. How absurd! Is the torch of criticism supposed to shine without burning?

George Will

Creative semantics is the key to contemporary government; it consists of talking in strange tongues lest the public learn the inevitable inconveniently early.

George Saunders

In my work, and in my psyche, there's some very sentimental, traditional, conventional side that's always in argument with a more radical, sarcastic side. Some of my stories are really sentimental, but they're layered over with weird, satirical stuff.

Groucho Marx

Why don't you bore a hole in yourself and let the sap run out?

Groucho Marx

Don't look now, but there's one too many in this room and I think it's you.

Golda Meir

Don't be humble... you're not that great.

Harold Wilson

Debating against him is no fun, say something insulting and he looks at you like a whipped dog.

Ignatius of Antioch

For some are in the habit of carrying about the name in wicked guile, while they still practice things unworthy of God. You must flee these as you would wild beasts. For they are ravening dogs, who bite secretly, against whom you must be on your guard, since they are men who can scarcely be cured.

George Carlin

Weather forecast for tonight: dark.

Frederic Raphael

Your idea of fidelity is not having more than one man in bed at the same time.

George Eliot

Destiny stands by sarcastic with our dramatis personae folded in her hand.

Fanny Burney

You have sensible women here [in England] but then, they are very devils--censorious, uncharitable, sarcastic--the women in Scotland have twice--thrice their freedom, with all their virtue--and are very conversable and agreeable--their educations are more finished.

F. H. Bradley

His mind is so open - so open that ideas simply pass through it.

Eugene McCarthy

I would not want to put him in charge of snake control in Ireland.

Jerry Seinfeld

I can't go to a bad movie by myself. What, am I gonna make sarcastic remarks to strangers?

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Whoa, what is this? Battle of the Sarcastic and Pissed? Should I make popcorn? Forget American Idol, man. This is much more entertaining. (Kish)

Terence

She never was really charming till she died.

Nicole Holofcener

I thought I could make a sarcastic joke about it. But it's based on my own struggle with how much to give, how much it's really helping or not, and how foolish or not I feel. Giving sometimes backfires...

N. T. Wright

[Albert] Schweitzer thus carved out his own path through the first half of this century, a lonely and learned giant amidst the hordes of noisy and shallow theological pygmies.

Oscar Wilde

Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.

Oscar Wilde

America is one long expectoration.

Mae West

I've no time for broads who want to rule the world alone. Without men, who'd do up the zipper on the back of your dress?

Mae West

Good women are no fun... The only good woman I can recall in history was Betsy Ross. And all she ever made was a flag.

Mae West

I'm single because I was born that way.

Mae West

It isn't what I do, but how I do it. It isn't what I say, but how I say it, and how I look when I do it and say it.

Mae West

I only read biographies, metaphysics and psychology. I can dream up my own fiction.

Mae West

No one can have everything, so you have to try for what you want most.