Quotes on Sarcastic

I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress.

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.

Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.

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.

Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.

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

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

Consult: To seek approval for a course of action already decided upon.

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

Don't let schooling interfere with your education.

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

He [Napoleon] was as great as a man can be without morality.

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still.

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.

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

I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her.

Women with pasts interest men because they hope history will repeat itself.