Top 66 Quotes About Irony And Sarcasm
#1. Carefully I opened my eyes and looked at him again. All his natural gifts were there in a blaze of light: the delicate but strong limbs, large sober brown eyes, and his mouth that for all the irony and sarcasm that could come out of it was childlike and ready to be kissed.
Anne Rice
#2. I'd love to start some movements. What I'm tired of is irony, and sarcasm, and music/movies/what have you, not having the guts to mean anything.
Don Hertzfeldt
#3. You see," I explained to Joshua, "what Joy is doing is ironic, yet that's not her intent. That's the difference between irony and sarcasm. Irony can be spontaneous, while sarcasm requires volition. You have to create sarcasm."
"No kidding?" said Josh.
"Why do I waste my time with you?
Christopher Moore
#4. That's the difference between irony and sarcasm. Irony can be spontaneous, while sarcasm requires volition. You have to create sarcasm.
Christopher Moore
#5. I wouldn't be caught dead sacrificing myself for this country.
Sol Luckman
#7. The best way to measure the loss of intellectual sophistication - this "nerdification," to put it bluntly - is in the growing disappearance of sarcasm, as mechanic minds take insults a bit too literally.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#8. Be extremely careful when using irony: bear in mind that irony might be an overture for sarcasm
Eraldo Banovac
#10. If time is money and you wasted my time, then give me back my money!
Ljupka Cvetanova
#11. If your career doesn't work out, write a book about it.
Marcy Sheiner
#12. What is your advice to young writers?"
"Drink, fuck and smoke plenty of cigarettes.
Charles Bukowski
#13. While the man is putting on it's shoes, the woman can buy dozens of high heels.
Ljupka Cvetanova
#14. It would be the last thing he did if he beat my dog.
Holly Hood
#17. Think people really want to know what's out there?"
"Probably not. People don't know what they want, Evelyn, or life wouldn't suck
Lizzy Ford
#18. A man doesn't like to have his ego popped, especially when he prides himself on his sagacity, and then to be proved wrong by a man who claims he doesn't know anything.
E.A. Bucchianeri
#20. Big people never scare me. I am a little man. I can easily hide.
Ljupka Cvetanova
#21. I'm as lucky as a bed of oysters on cioppino night.
Nenia Campbell
#22. So you thought you could shit and eat at the same time. How disgustingly convenient.
Nenia Campbell
#23. Luke is the sort of boy Taylor Swift could at least three songs out of.
Beth Garrod
#24. Repeat a lie a thousand times and it become a successful political campaign.
Ljupka Cvetanova
#25. The eye-roll is a 10.5 on the Ritcher. The Big One. California has slipped into the ocean.
Jandy Nelson
#26. We're not big on irony in Jamaica, sarcasm and double-talk. We tend to say things plainly, sometimes to the point of boredom.
Marlon James
#27. So the reason I was struck again and again was because of my overwhelmingly positive energy. Funny, I'd always thought of myself as a pessimist.
Jennifer Bosworth
#28. (One character on another
Don't you know that I passionately dote on every chin on his face?
Dorothy L. Sayers
#29. I don't get you people. You watch the Godfather on television and tons of people are getting shot and stabbed to death, blood splattering everywhere and it is entertaining. But, when they killed a horse, people were outraged.
Mario Stinger
#30. It's bad enough barging into Guild property, but we'll get into really serious trouble if we shoot anyone. Lord Vetinari won't stop at sarcasm. He might use' - Colon swallowed - 'irony.
Terry Pratchett
#33. Phones with numerical keypads worked best for dialing phone calls. Incidentally, phone calls tend to be the primary function of a phone. 'Smartphones' completely ignore these basic facts, resulting in some of the least intelligent devices I've seen yet. Oh the irony.
Ashly Lorenzana
#34. I BELIEVE EVERYONE IS SPECIAL ...
BUT SOME PEOPLE THINK .
. IT'S JUST ANOTHER WAY OF SAYING NO-ONE IS
ASHISH RANJAN
#35. ... And I wondered if we had disappointed God so much, that he wrote us off as pets, just alive to entertain.
Bethany Brookbank
#36. Humor does not include sarcasm, invalid irony, sardonicism, innuendo, or any other form of cruelty. When these things are raised to a high point they can become wit, but unlike the French and the English, we have not been much good at wit since the days of Benjamin Franklin.
James Thurber
#37. You might as well laugh at yourself,
everyone else is.
B.J. Neblett
#38. A painting is worth a thousand confused art-gallery visitors.
Ljupka Cvetanova
#39. I will take all my rights! Can you deliver them to my house?
Ljupka Cvetanova
#43. You have the chance to remain silent. Everything you say will be misused.
Ljupka Cvetanova
#44. If you turned your back on irony, it curdled into sarcasm. And what good was it then? Sarcasm was irony which had lost its soul. Beneath
Julian Barnes
#46. But the people only talked about how ugly her face looked. No one even bothered to mention what a sweet, kindhearted girl she was. Now, don't be amazed! That is just the nature of humans, to notice the one flaw among a person's ten good qualities.
Janaki Sooriyarachchi
#47. He was the hardest person to figure out I had ever met, which was saying something. I knew girls, after all....
Chris O'Guinn
#48. I'm so sick of sarcasm and irony, I could kill! Sincerely, the real root of things is love and sacrifice.
Ben Foster
#50. Whatever doesn't kill them, makes them make reality TV shows ...
Glen Duncan
#51. Im.' The monosyllable was heavy with contempt. 'E's a twat.'
'Is he?'
'Yeah, 'e is. Ask Kieran.'
She gave the impression that she and Kieran stood together, sane, dispassionate observers of the idiots populating Lula's world.
Robert Galbraith
#52. But there was no going back to that idyllic time when only one god wanted to kill me.
Kevin Hearne
#53. What tale do you like best to hear?' 'Oh, I have not much choice! They generally run on the same theme - courtship; and promise to end in the same catastrophe - marriage.
Charlotte Bronte
#54. How did you merit so much devotion so quickly?' I asked, making no attempt to keep the sarcasm from my voice.
'I show them Heaven', said she, without a trace of irony. 'People are so desperate for light'.
Rachel Hartman
#56. Luckily we don't sleep standing. Who knows where the dream will take us!
Ljupka Cvetanova
#57. I love the French for their sarcasm, their irony. I love them for their bad moods.
Marjane Satrapi
#62. The exact meaning of irony is so narrow that the word is hardly worth using; in its broad, current definition, it's a euphemism for sarcasm. 'I'm not being sarcastic; I'm being ironic.' No, you're not. You're evading the responsibility for being sarcastic.
Richard Corliss
#64. And involuntarily I compared the childish sarcasm, the religious sarcasm of Voltaire with the irresistible irony of the German philosopher whose influence is henceforth ineffaceable.
Guy De Maupassant
#65. At the best, sarcasms, bitter irony, scathing wit, are a sort of swordplay of the mind. You pink your adversary, and he is forthwith dead; and then you deserve to be hung for it.
Christian Nestell Bovee
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