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"She was what we used to call a suicide blonde - dyed by her own hand."
"It’s not enough to be able to lie with a straight face; anybody with enough gall to raise on a busted flush can do that. The first way to lie artistically is to tell the truth — but not all of it. The second way involves telling the truth, too, but is harder: Tell the exact truth and maybe all of it…but tell it so unconvincingly that your listener is sure you are lying."
"Death and taxes may be inevitable, but they shouldn't be related."
"I've been things and seen places."
"Everything is worth precisely as much as a belch, the difference being that a belch is more satisfying."
"The English have a miraculous power of turning wine into water."
"Russians will consume marinated mushrooms and vodka, salted herring and vodka, smoked salmon and vodka, salami and vodka, caviar on brown bread and vodka, pickled cucumbers and vodka, cold tongue and vodka, red beet salad and vodka, scallions and vodka-anything and everything and vodka."
"I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence."
"What is the use of straining after an amiable view of things, when a cynical view is most likely to be the true one?."
"Go anywhere in England where there are natural wholesome, contented and really nice English people; and what do you find? That the stables are the real centre of the household."
"Not only do I not know what's going on, I wouldn't know what to do about it if I did."
"Fine words! I wonder where you stole them."
"She's the sort of woman who lives for others - you can tell the others by their hunted expression."
"I can be much more sarcastic and, I think, sometimes withering in my assessments of things than I allow to show in my public life."
"Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses."
"I'm stupid, I'm ugly, I'm dumb, I smell. Did I mention I'm stupid?"
"He had a big head and a face so ugly it became almost fascinating."
"If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt."
"People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure."