1,147 Quotes About Sarcasm





  • Author Edgar Allan Poe
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    The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of merely a comma, it often occurs that an axiom appears a paradox, or that a sarcasm is converted into a sermonoid.

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  • Author Jonathan Swift
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    Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind reception it meets with in the world, and that so very few are offended with it.

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  • Author Jonathan Swift
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    It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.

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