All quotes
Every published quote, filterable by category, tone and mood.
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There is a great need for a sarcasm font. — Darynda Jones（Attribution unverified） |
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He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary. — William Faulkner（Attribution unverified） |
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Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? — Ernest Hemingway（Attribution unverified） |
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Can the sarcasm,' he said. 'Please, I always use fresh sarcasm, never canned. — Laurell K. Hamilton（Attribution unverified） |
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It's wildly irritating to have invented something as revolutionary as sarcasm, only to have it abused by amateurs. — Christopher Moore（Attribution unverified） |
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When you are dissatisfied and would like to go back to youth, think of Algebra. — Will Rogers（Attribution unverified） |
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The secret of a successful restaurant is sharp knives. — George Orwell（Attribution unverified） |
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Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit -- or a mask. . . . The foregoing maxim shows the difference between truth and sarcasm. — William Hazlitt（Attribution unverified） |
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My two souls, the socially conscious one and the lighthearted one, are always in my movies because they find a perfect habitat in my grotesque style, which combines tragedy and humor, irony and sarcasm, comedy and drama. I also feel that rules are made to be broken, especially in art! I prefer creative disorder to strict rules. — Lina Wertmuller（Attribution unverified） |
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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up. — Ogden Nash（Attribution unverified） |
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I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is the language I don't understand. — Edward Victor Appleton（Attribution unverified） |
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Sometimes Americans don't quite get my sense of humor. My good ol' British sarcasm seems to go over their heads. — Lee Westwood（Attribution unverified） |
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My uncle, Mr. Stephen Maple, had been at the same time the most successful and the least respectable of our family, so that we hardly knew whether to take credit for his wealth or to feel ashamed of his position. — Arthur Conan Doyle（Attribution unverified） |
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A fine horse or a beautiful woman, I cannot look at them unmoved, even now when seventy winters have chilled my blood. — Arthur Conan Doyle（Attribution unverified） |
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Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner. You have attempted to tinge it with romanticism, which produces much the same effect as if you worked a love-story or an elopement into the fifth proposition of Euclid. — Arthur Conan Doyle（Attribution unverified） |
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Might I trouble you to open the window, for chloroform vapour does not help the palate. — Arthur Conan Doyle（Attribution unverified） |
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I am engaged in answering that Italian buffoon, Mazotti, whose views upon the larval development of the tropical termites have excited my derision and contempt . . . — Arthur Conan Doyle（Attribution unverified） |
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"I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always means an affaire de coeur." — Arthur Conan Doyle（Attribution unverified） |
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There should be a rule against your own inner monologue throwing around that much sarcasm. — Jim Butcher（Attribution unverified） |
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Sarcasm and compassion are two of the qualities that make life on Earth tolerable. — Nick Hornby（Attribution unverified） |