Sardonically Quotes

#1. Roses," she thought sardonically, "All trash, m'dear.

Virginia Woolf

#2. Another Chief remembered that since the Great Father promised them that they would never be moved they had been moved five times. "I think you had better put the Indians on wheels," he said sardonically, "and you can run them about whenever you wish.

Dee Brown

#3. Let her cover the mark as she will,'" he quoted sardonically, "'the pang of it will always be in her heart.

Lisa Kleypas

#4. Humour is but the faint terrestrial echo of the hideous laughter of the blind mad gods that squat leeringly and sardonically in caverns beyond the Milky Way. It is a hollow thing, sweet on the outside, but filled with the pathos of fruitless aspiration.

H.P. Lovecraft

#5. Chicago," Bright answered sardonically, "is not just a place. It's a state of mind.

Richard North Patterson

#6. Government agents sardonically known as the Menstrual Police regularly rounded up women in their workplaces to administer pregnancy tests. If a woman repeatedly failed to conceive, she was forced to pay a steep "celibacy tax.

Steven D. Levitt

#7. Gulliver's Travels sardonically proposed that Irish babies be fattened for English tables;

Robert A. Heinlein

#8. Do you think five babysitters will be sufficient?" Ethan inquired sardonically.
"No, but I'm willing to leave the compound without panties if we can make that happen."
"I'm on it," he said as he quickly began texting our gaggle of sitters

Robyn Peterman

#9. This isn't the medieval era, my lord. I'll be damned if I need to put on a dog-and-pony show with a peer as part of a business deal."
"Speaking as the other half of the dog-and-pony show," Westcliff said sardonically, "I'm not fond of the idea either.

Lisa Kleypas

#10. All our bright minds," Feynman said sardonically, "and we can't figure how to stop the enemy from dumping dirt on us." Freeman said with delicate precision, "We are hothouse flowers, really. Not made for the blunt edge of war." Nods

Gregory Benford

#11. The coolly logical part of her brain noted almost sardonically that Edilio had a superpower after all: being Edilio.

Micheal Grant

#12. It was so important to him, and he made it important to me: poetry, and language, and how we use it to remind ourselves of how our lives should be lived . . .

Lois Lowry

#13. You never know whether you've already experienced your greatest moment or your worst

Dean Cavanagh

#14. ignore the pain, play through it.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#15. In most mills, only the best portions of the best trees are used, while the ruins are left on the ground to feed great fires which kill much of what is left of the less desirable timber, together with the seedlings on which the permanence of the forest depends.

John Muir

#16. The first thing a proprietor learns, and painfully at that, is: Trust is fine, but control is better.

Elfriede Jelinek

#17. Reason forbade me many things which,
Instinctively, my nature was attracted to;
And a perpetual loss I feel if, knowing,
I believe a falsehood or deny the truth.

Abu'l-A'la Al-Ma'arri

#18. The next time you face something that is unexpected, unwanted and uncertain ... consider that it just might be a gift.

Stacy Kramer

#19. Beware of the temptation to see yourself as unfairly treated.

Wayne Dyer

#20. There is only one tactical principle which is not subject to change. It is to use the means at hand to inflict the maximum amount of wound, death, and destruction on the enemy in the minimum amount of time.

George S. Patton

#21. Live optimistic life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#22. She and I were bound together at the border between life and death. It was like that for us from the start

Haruki Murakami