1,147 Quotes About Sarcasm

  • Author Thomas Mann
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    Volgens mij is [sarcasme] het schitterendste wapen van de rede tegen de machten van de duisternis en de lelijkheid. Sarcasme, mijnheer, is de geest van de kritiek, en kritiek betekent de oorsprong van vooruitgang en verlichting.

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  • Author Mona Chollet
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    Les mères, des créatures indolentes et dépendantes qui se contentent de barboter dans le grand mystère de la vie, et laissent la politique aux hommes : vous avez demandé le XIXe siècle, ne quittez pas.

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  • Author Robert A. Heinlein
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    . . . they would rather sneer at us and be smug, because we 'fail' to see what they are driving at. If indeed they are driving at anything--obscurity is usually the refuge of incompetence.

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  • Author S.A. Chakraborty
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    Praise be to God, have I actually silenced you for once? I should have accused you of treason earlier in our conversation and saved myself your insufferable comments.

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  • Author S.A. Chakraborty
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    When the Franks and Turks weren't fighting over Egypt, the only thing they seemed to agree on was that the Egyptians couldn't govern it themselves. God forbid. It's not as though the Egyptians were the inheritors of a great civilization whose mighty monuments still littered the land. Oh, no. They were peasants, superstitious fools who ate too many beans

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