Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hunter S. Thompson

They don't hardly make 'em like him any more - but just to be on the safe side, he should be castrated anyway.

Hugh Leonard

The problem with Ireland is that it's a country full of genius, but with absolutely no talent.

Homer

And now I'm using sarcasm, to confess the whole thing so later I could say I already told you.

Homer

Oh, look at me! I'm making people happy! I'm the Magical Man from Happy-Land, in a gumdrop house on Lollipop Lane! Oh, by the way, I was being sarcastic.

Elsa Lanchester

She looked as though butter wouldn't melt in her mouth - or anywhere else.

Eugene Field

He is so mean, he won't let his little baby have more than one measle at a time.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

Pushing forty? She's hanging on for dear life.

Jack London

Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.

J. C. Watts

Death and taxes may be inevitable, but they shouldn't be related.

Ginnifer Goodwin

Oh, my, yes. I was raised in this Southern culture where if a guy was sarcastic, that just meant he didn't know how to show his love - but secretly he cared! I completely bought that. The men I chased and the things I put up with - it was criminal.

J. D. Salinger

I can be quite sarcastic when I'm in the mood.

John Fogerty

Usually I just let my songs do the talking. As a matter of fact I have long had an aversion to celebrities endorsing politics, and in some cases even other causes. I wonder about their motives. And I have to admit when celebrities get involved in political campaigns I tend to get a little bit sarcastic about it.

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.

Emily Ratajkowski

On whether Blurred Lines' video is sexist: I don't. I really appreciate the people who watch out for that stuff, and I'm sensitive to those sort of things. On the surface level, the naked women dancing, I understand that can be perceived that way. But we're directed to have a sort of confidence, a sarcastic attitude about the whole situation.

Leo Tolstoy

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

Joseph Heller

He knew everything about literature except how to enjoy it.

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.

Peter Hook

Sarcasm is a Manchester trait.

John Masefield

His face was filled with broken commandments.

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.

John Philpot Curran

His smile is like the silver plate on a coffin.

Nancy Banks Smith

This is one of those big, fat paperbacks, intended to while away a monsoon or two, which, if thrown with a good overarm action, will bring a water buffalo to its knees.

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.