Quotes About Caustic

#1. Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.

George Eliot

#2. Philosophy exists in profoundest opposition to rhetoric, which is speaking for the sake of producing or controlling some effect in others' perceptions. Philosophy is about the caustic or cauterizing effect of the truth, not the currying of sensibilities.

Kenny Smith

#3. You can do all manner of underhanded nice things when you have a caustic reputation.

Markus Zusak

#4. I found my friends very amusing the first time because they are funny and amusing. They really are because they're people who've got everything. They're sort of like camp caricatures of what you expect an aristocrat should be: vicious, rude, caustic unpleasantries.

Duncan Roy

#5. The Clean Oven Domestic Ltd is Family rum company and uses the non-caustic and environment friendly material for cleaning services.

Clean Eating

#6. Even in the investigations into direct production of calcium peroxide in an alkali melt with highly compressed oxygen, it was found to be necessary to bring the high-pressure gas into contact with the suspension of lime in caustic alkali melt by agitation or some other means of mixing.

Friedrich Bergius

#7. Linc had always been a leg man. Thankfully hers made up for her caustic tongue and armour plated panties

Amy Andrews

#8. After my baccalaureate, I signed up for acting lessons; there followed some inglorious years, during which I grew nastier and nastier and, as a consequence, more and more caustic; thanks to this, success finally arrived - on a scale that surprised me.

Michel Houellebecq

#9. Debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust and wide-open and that ... may well include vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public officials.

William J. Brennan

#10. While there was a playfulness to their caustic bards, there was also an aura of "I'll kick your ass back to the Steel Age if you so much as breathe my air the wrong way."' (Alix)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#11. My childhood memories seem to be wreathed in the twin and far from harmonious olfactory sensations of patchouli oil and caustic soda.

Hamish Bowles

#12. The bitter attacks I faced were far worse than any fighter I ever faced in the ring. The caustic remarks, the threats to injure me, the shots at my character-fighting those were my toughest battle.

Jack Johnson

#13. An incomplete fulfillment of a sweet dream can slowly turn it caustic.

Anuradha Bhattacharyya

#14. I'm very antischedule. Except for board meetings, I don't really schedule things or keep a calendar. I think appointments are caustic to creativity.

David Karp

#15. The cynical, caustic, acid-tongued New York drama critic Addison De Witt introduces his protege/date of the moment, a bimbo date and so-called actress named Miss Casswell (Marilyn Monroe) in another very famous line: "Miss Casswell is an actress, a graduate of the Copacabana School of Dramatic Art."

George Sanders

#16. You used to say. "Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness."
Madness doubled is marriage
I added
when the caustic was cool, not intending to produce
a golden rule.

Anne Carson

#17. I was kind of a Rickles comic to begin with. I was caustic, and I was abusive and mean to the audience.

Louie Anderson

#18. When that man left her, and then the barber ran off with all the money and the few valuables she had saved up over the years, she didn't swallow caustic soda. She shook herself down as if nothing had happened

Magda Szabo

#19. The Ladies Buddenbrook from Breite Strasse did not weep, however - it was not their custom. Their faces, a little less caustic than usual at least, expressed a gentle satisfaction at death's impartiality.

Thomas Mann

#20. Song being born of quest he knows this: he must turn silent were he suddenly assaulted with answers. Instead oh hear his wild, caustic, tender warbling ceaselessly unanswered.

Mary Oliver

#21. A raised eyebrow, an inflection of the voice, a caustic remark dropped in the middle of a broadcast can raise doubts in a million minds about the veracity of a public official or the wisdom of a governmental policy.

Spiro T. Agnew

#22. Too caustic? To hell with the costs, we'll make the picture anyway.

Samuel Goldwyn

#23. The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.

Anthony Trollope

#24. Maybe innocence is a skin you must shed to build layers more resistant to the caustic truths of the world.

Hector Tobar

#25. We've gotten to the point now where Republicans and Democrats have nothing in common besides being members of the 'caustic caucus,' and we can't get anything done.

Emanuel Cleaver

#26. I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.

Vera Farmiga

#27. Nothing revives the cup of life more than a caustic splash of death.

Leylah Attar

#28. Is that your professional take on the situation? I kept my voice dry and caustic. This wasn't worth yelling over. It wasn't even worth a heated whisper.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

#29. There was once a caustic comment from someone suggesting I was breeding a new race. Fans from different countries have married, amazing things like that. I've been to some of the weddings. I went to one here the other day, a pagan ceremony.

Terry Pratchett

#30. Never mind,' she said, 'I don't see the point of a God.'
'And I don't see much point in a cat.' the Kami replied.

Kij Johnson