Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Twain

In India, 'cold weather' is merely a conventional phrase and has come into use through the necessity of having some way to distinguish between weather which will melt a brass door-knob and weather which will only make it mushy.

Mark Twain

Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

Useless as a pulled tooth.

Nick Moran

My brothers are both 6 ft. 5 in., and if you have younger brothers who are bigger than you then you have to learn the ancient martial art of sarcasm.

Mark Twain

I find that the further I go back, the better things were, whether they happened or not.

John Green

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

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.

Mark Twain

Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.

Mae West

I see you're a man with ideals. I better be going before you've still got them.

Mae West

He's the kind of man who picks his friends - to pieces.

Mae West

I saw what a mess a lot of people could make of their lives when they're smitten. Some of them go temporarily insane. They find a person who they think holds the key to their happiness-the only key to their happiness... My work has always been my greatest happiness

George C. Scott

He had a winning smile, but everything else was a loser.

Christina Ricci

It's fun to be sarcastic, but now I'm able to express myself in a way that's much more sincere.

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?

Hayden Panettiere

I can be very dry and sarcastic.

Ford Frick

Avoid sarcasm. Don't insist on the last word.

George Mikes

Was he joking? Was he being sarcastic? Aggressive? Impertinent? Or just courteous? There was no telling from his impassive face. What a country, he thought despairingly. In Russia you always knew. If a man made a stern face he was threatening; if he was laughing uproariously, he was joking.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.

John Quincy Adams

His face is livid, gaunt his whole body, his breath is green with gall; his tongue drips poison.

Noel Coward

I see her as one great stampede of lips directed at the nearest derriere.

Noel Coward

She had much in common with Hitler, only no mustache.

Noel Coward

He's completely unspoiled by failure.

Eddie Cantor

He hasn't an enemy in the world - but all his friends hate him.

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.

Spiro T. Agnew

In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism. They have formed their own 4-H Club - the 'hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history.

Robert Redford

He has the attention span of a lightning bolt.

Richard P. Feynman

People often think I'm a faker, but I'm usually honest, in a certain way--in such a way that often nobody believes me!

William Ralph Inge

Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.

If he ever had a bright idea it would be beginner's luck.

Walter Winchell

She's been on more laps than a napkin.

Winston Churchill

There but for the grace of God, goes God.