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Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it. -- Thomas Carlyle
What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth. -- Roland Barthes
Sarcasm is lost in print. -- Jon Cryer
Sarcasm is a Manchester trait. -- Peter Hook
You have delighted us long enough. -- Jane Austen
Familiarity breeds contempt - and children. -- Mark Twain
Marriage is the chief cause of divorce. -- Groucho Marx
Sarcasm doesn't translate in print at all. -- Megan Fox
It's always darkest before it turns absolutely pitch black. -- Paul Newman
The consumer isn't a moron; she is your wife. -- David Ogilvy
Sometimes I need what only you can provide: your absence. -- Ashleigh Brilliant
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go. -- Oscar Wilde
A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory. -- Steven Wright
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence. -- Henry Adams
Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it. -- Mark Twain
I can fluently speak five languages: English, emoji, sexting, sarcasm and sass. -- Tyler Oakley
Out of the unconscious lips of babes and sucklings are we satirized. -- Mark Twain
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow. -- Mark Twain
The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced. -- Frank Zappa
I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me. -- Noel Coward
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. -- George Bernard Shaw
I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure. -- Clarence Darrow
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives. -- Abba Eban
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. -- Abraham Lincoln
If you find it hard to laugh at yourself, I would be happy to do it for you. -- Groucho Marx
Sarcasm helps me overcome the harshness of the reality we live, eases the pain of scars and makes people smile. -- Mahmoud Darwish
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. -- Groucho Marx
When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me. -- Emo Philips
Sarcasm is not the rapier of wit its wielders seem to believe it to be, but merely a club: it may, by dint of brute force, occasionally raise bruises, but it never cuts or pierces. -- Rex Stout
Sarcasm doesn't read sarcastic in print. -- Kristen Schaal
Sarcasm is always at someone's expense. -- Veronica Roth
Sarcasm was a weapon for children. -- Jennifer Echols
Sarcasm is the protest of the weak. -- John Knowles
Sarcasm will make your tits fall off. -- Christopher Moore
Sarcasm is an abuse of the intellect. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit. -- Oscar Wilde
Sarcasm is always perceived as an attack. -- Marshall Sylver
Sarcasm... the protest of those who are weak. -- John Knowles
Sarcasm mascarades as the Preppy's sense of humor. -- Lisa Birnbach
Sarcasm creates a chasm between yourself and others. -- Gayle Forman
Sarcasm is the last refuge of the imaginatively bankrupt. -- Cassandra Clare
Sarcasm is the language of people whose emotions are dying. -- Barry Webster
Sarcasm is when you tell someone the truth by lying on purpose. -- Chuck Klosterman
Sarcasm is the lowest form of humor but the highest form of flattery. -- Benjamin Franklin
Sarcasm is wasted on those who haven't had a decent night's sleep, my darling." -- Tracy Guzeman
Sarcasm and compassion are two of the qualities that make life on Earth tolerable. -- Nick Hornby
And little girls went to charm schools. Now you've all got degrees from the University of Sarcasm. -- Ian Rankin
Sarcasm doesn't suit you, Melissa,' Graham growled. 'Really? I've always thought it brings out my eyes. -- Christine Warren
Sarcasm doesn't appear to work on him. If that's true, I'm in trouble: It's my normal mode of communication. -- Rick Yancey
Sarcasm, as it turned out--even when it was instinctive and quick--cut into the time one had to manufacture one's escape. -- Mel Odom
I frowned at him. "Isn't sarcasm the opiate of the masses?""You're thinking of religion," he replied. "Sarcasm is the Xanax of the morally bereft. -- Cecily White
There are too many confusing things present. Things I know. Thoughts I have. Sarcasm. Things I think I ought to be doing and places I ought to be going. Always other places. -- Erlend Loe
I wish you'd stop desperately trying to get my attention like this," he said. "It's become embarrassing.""Sarcasm is the last refuge of the imaginatively bankrupt," she told him."I can't help it. I use my rapier wit to hide my inner pain. -- Cassandra Clare
They didn't have novels back then. (Tory) History says they didn't have books, yet what's this thing in my hand? It's square, bound paper that's been written on. Looks like a book to me. (Acheron) Thank you, Captain Sarcasm. How nice of you to join us again. (Tory) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
I do sarcasm really poorly. -- Brittany Murphy
Some sarcasm is best told simply. -- Kevin Hart
Neither irony or sarcasm is argument. -- Samuel Butler
This music won't do. There's not enough sarcasm in it. -- Samuel Goldwyn
You had to learn at a certain age what sarcasm is, you know? -- Penny Marshall
I love the French for their sarcasm, their irony. I love them for their bad moods. -- Marjane Satrapi
The key to humor is often self-loathing or sarcasm. In a sense, that's how self-loathing is made palatable. -- James Gray
My natural-born sarcasm, when it's unimpeded, can be a bit overbearing at times and I'm the first to admit that. -- Tom Bergeron
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I grew up in an environment of jokes and sarcasm and puns. I talk that way, so I write that way. -- Allan Sloan
In my opinion, I think sarcasm and humor in a song, without turning it into a novelty song, is really charming. -- Alanis Morissette
I'll speak for myself, but there's a lot of humor to be found in sarcasm and darkness. You talk to any paramedic, they survive by developing a pretty off-kilter sense of humor. -- Nicolas Cage
The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule, sarcasm, merely stating an alternative point of view to the orthodoxy, can be interpreted as insult. -- Rowan Atkinson
Somebody says, 'Do a Tom Bodett, a folksy kind of thing,' and it sounds like something out of 'Hee Haw,' very insulting. They turn wry humor into disparaging sarcasm, and you get what amounts to insulting advertising. -- Tom Bodett
I am suggesting that as we go through life, we 'accentuate the positive.' I am asking that we look a little deeper for the good, that we still our voices of insult and sarcasm, that we more generously compliment and endorse virtue and effort. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
Canada has a passive-aggressive culture, with a lot of sarcasm and righteousness. That went with my weird messianic complex. The ego is a fascinating monster. I was taught from a young age that I had to serve, so that turned into me thinking I had to save the planet. -- Alanis Morissette
Sarcasm is weird. Even not in acting, in life I feel like 'sarcastic' is a word that people use to describe me sometimes so when I meet someone, it's almost like they feel like they have to also be sarcastic, but it can sometimes just come off as mean if it's not used in the right way. -- Aubrey Plaza
I grew up as a very sarcastic person. I was always the class clown, and to date girls, I had to be really funny. I was really skinny growing up. I was so thin, I had to run around in the shower to get wet. That kind of thin. So I always had to rely on humor and sarcasm. -- Kurt Fuller
When my wife and I met, I couldn't talk to her - and my defense mechanism is sarcasm. I belittle someone with verbal pokes and prods. I did it to her out of complete awe. When friends introduced us, I said 'Hi' - and turned my back. Later, I called my mom and best friend and said, 'I think I just met my wife.' -- Mike Vogel
I like sarcasm. I like snark. -- Alexis Ohanian
Without sarcasm I sink into chaos. -- Antonin Artaud
Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument. -- Rufus Choate
The ego taunts truth with sarcasm. -- T.F. Hodge
We are suffering from too much sarcasm. -- Marianne Moore
I'd to do more stuff with less sarcasm. -- Sara Gilbert
Avoid sarcasm. Don't insist on the last word. -- Ford Frick
If you can't detect the sarcasm you've misunderstood. -- Lily Allen
Sufficiently advanced political correctness is indistinguishable from sarcasm. -- Erik Naggum
There is a great need for a sarcasm font. -- Darynda Jones
I'd like to do more stuff with less sarcasm. -- Sara Gilbert
The monkey is an organized sarcasm upon the human race. -- Henry Ward Beecher
with a touch of sarcasm. "Glass is an amazing material. Versatile, -- Maria V. Snyder
I'm a silly guy, I love wit and cynicism and sarcasm. -- Columbus Short
My major vice is sarcasm with a side of caffeine addiction. -- Rosemary Clement-Moore
I had always been warned that American didn't always get sarcasm -- Lindsey Kelk
If there is no sarcasm, there's no true love towards the mankind -- Dmitry Pisarev
I have a black belt in sarcasm, and my wit is like lightning. -- N.R. Walker
The sarcasm made a slight whistling noise as it flew over Loafers' head. -- Eoin Colfer
Can the sarcasm,' he said. 'Please, I always use fresh sarcasm, never canned. -- Laurell K. Hamilton
You see, that is the sad, sorry, terrible thing about sarcasm. It's really funny. -- Brandon Sanderson
I like a girl who's smart, they have to be able to grasp witty sarcasm. -- Eyedea
When you succumb to cynicism, darkness, pessimism and sarcasm you are amplifying imbalance and negativity. -- Bryant McGill
Getting married is like trading in the adoration of many for the sarcasm of one. -- Mae West
There should be a rule against your own inner monologue throwing around that much sarcasm. -- Jim Butcher
Playful, positive sarcasm is different from negative mean sarcasm, and many people don't know the difference. -- Bryant McGill
The arrow always tipped with ill nature and sarcasm is deadliest to him who sends it. -- Prentice Mulford
Some intentionally injure others through mocking, sarcasm with no intent to help. Others are trying to help. -- Sterling W Sill
I'll be spending the holidays with my family. Nothing special, just some light bickering and biting sarcasm. -- Ray Romano
You know, Gilan, sarcasm isn't the lowest form of wit. It's not even wit at all." -Halt -- John Flanagan
there is a fine line between sarcasm and hostility, you seemed to have crossed it. What's up? -- Cassandra Clare
You know, sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.' 'And yet it is still extremely funny. -- Cecelia Ahern
It's wildly irritating to have invented something as revolutionary as sarcasm, only to have it abused by amateurs. -- Christopher Moore
Some sarcasm is best told simply. Some humor is best told big and some is best told small. -- Kevin Hart
And now I'm using sarcasm, to confess the whole thing so later I could say I already told you. -- Homer
Puns are just another form of sarcasm, which may or may not make you - smile, giggle, or laugh. -- Aniruddha Sastikar
People don't understand sarcasm, like, they take everything too seriously. People need to lighten up and go ice skating. -- Daniel Johns
I just want you that's it. All your flaws, mistakes, smiles, giggles, jokes, sarcasm. Everything. I just want you -- Sara Quin
Sometimes Americans don't quite get my sense of humor. My good ol' British sarcasm seems to go over their heads. -- Lee Westwood
Art must always remain earnest... Art must be serious, no sarcasm, comedy. One does not laugh at a loved one. -- Arshile Gorky
They say sarcasm is the lowest form of wit," Valkyrie said. China glanced at her. "They've obviously never met me. -- Derek Landy
Few authors are so interesting as their work - they generally reserve their wit or trenchant sarcasm for their books. -- Alec-Tweedie
I'm so sick of sarcasm and irony, I could kill! Sincerely, the real root of things is love and sacrifice. -- Ben Foster
I sighed; as comforting as it may be to some of us, sarcasm, like youth, is wasted on the young. -- Jeff Lindsay
That's the difference between irony and sarcasm. Irony can be spontaneous, while sarcasm requires volition. You have to create sarcasm. -- Christopher Moore
I avoided one-on-one situations, eye contact, and healthy relationships. Instead I took refuge in drinking too much, cheap sex, and sarcasm. -- Jason Najum

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