Quotes on Sarcasm

The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule, sarcasm, merely stating an alternative point of view to the orthodoxy, can be interpreted as insult.

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.

I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.

Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.

My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.

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.

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

He has no enemies, but he is intensely disliked by his friends.

It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.

A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.

I intend to live forever. So far, so good.

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.