Sarcasm Wit Quotes

#1. If you have to explain your sense of humor, then you are performing for the wrong crowd.

Shannon L. Alder

#2. You'll pardon me," said Beatrice, "if I fail to appreciate sarcasm and all the other brilliant nuances of your no doubt famous wit, Mr. Constant[ ... ]

Kurt Vonnegut

#3. Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.

E.L. James

#4. Then the small man suddenly ran after them and said:
"I want to get my haircut. I say, do you know a little shop anywhere where they cut hair properly? I keep on having my hair cut, but it keeps on growing again."
One of the tall men looked at him with the air of a pained naturalist.

G.K. Chesterton

#5. She wished she had a set of greeting cards at the ready, but Hallmark probably didn't make any that said Thank you for giving up your life so that me and my friends could escape! It was SO appreciated. XOXO!

Gina Damico

#6. I have a black belt in sarcasm, and my wit is like lightning.

N.R. Walker

#7. You know, Gilan, sarcasm isn't the lowest form of wit. It's not even wit at all.

John Flanagan

#8. Gankis lifted an arm to point at the distant shale cliffs. "And in the face of it there were thousands of little holes, little what-you-call-'ems ... "
"Alcoves," Kennit supplied in an almost dreamy voice. "I call them alcoves, Gankis. As would you, if you could speak your own mother tongue.

Robin Hobb

#9. And fetch some straw.
We'll put it between us and the ground. No reason we shouldn't sleep soft tonight."
"Straw. I love luxury.

Joanna Bourne

#10. 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

#11. Caro: "Bite me."
Ruby: "I gave that up in kindergarten.

Kristin Hannah

#12. Sarcasm isn't the lowest form of wit. It isn't even wit at all.

John Flanagan

#13. I'm sorry. I use my rapier wit to hide my inner pain.

Cassandra Clare

#14. 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

#15. You know, sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.'
'And yet it is still extremely funny.

Cecelia Ahern

#16. They say sarcasm is the lowest form of wit," Valkyrie said.
China glanced at her. "They've obviously never met me.

Derek Landy

#17. Richard looked up to find a thirty-ish, tall, black haired man sauntering towards him with a smile that said "You can trust me", but really meant "Don't believe a word I say". This was Jack, and he hadn't changed a bit.

Alexander Ferrick

#18. Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit," she said, hurt,

Patricia Briggs

#19. 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

#20. I wouldn't be caught dead sacrificing myself for this country.

Sol Luckman

#21. Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no fibs.

Oliver Goldsmith

#22. Your wit is always such a delight, Mr. Zeklos. I can barely contain myself around it.

Richelle Mead

#23. If Jack had followed him instead of trying to reclaim his car, he would undoubtedly have voiced his disappointment that they were not yet shooting laser cannons. Frankly, Richard thought dodging the police's bullets would be problematic enough.

Alexander Ferrick

#24. It was a very proper wedding. The bride was elegantly dressed
the two bridemaids were duly inferior
her father gave her away
her mother stood with salts in her hand expecting to be agitated
her aunt tried to cry
and the service was impressively read by Dr. Grant.

Jane Austen

#25. Black Mage: I was joking.
Red Mage: OH. See, I was confused by the total lack of comedy.

Brian Clevinger

#26. I'm a silly guy, I love wit and cynicism and sarcasm.

Columbus Short

#27. Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit, Miss Steele.

E.L. James

#28. Sarcasm is not the rapier of wit its wielders seem to believe it to be, but merely a club: it may, by dint of brute force, occasionally raise bruises, but it never cuts or pierces.

Rex Stout

#29. Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit, but the highest form of intelligence.

Oscar Wilde

#30. He had three
incision sites: one where the microscopic camera had gone in and
two where they'd done the actual work, and the abuse he'd taken
today went straight to her heart. "Oh, Pace."
"I'm guessing that wasn't an 'Oh, Pace, you're so sexy, take me.'

Jill Shalvis

#31. Few authors are so interesting as their work - they generally reserve their wit or trenchant sarcasm for their books.

Alec-Tweedie