All quotes
Every published quote, filterable by category, tone and mood.
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Any game plan? Xypher asked Sin. Don't die. I like it. Simple, bold. Impossible. Works for me. Kat scoffed at his sarcasm. What are you bitching about, Xypher? You're already dead. He laughed. You know, for once, it's good to be me. — Sherrilyn Kenyon（Attribution unverified） |
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On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points. — Virginia Woolf（Attribution unverified） |
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It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes. — Oscar Wilde（Attribution unverified） |
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My job is not to talk smack about anything. This is why I dislike strongly doing magazine articles: My personality does not translate to print. People don't read it as sarcasm, and it just comes off badly. — Sandra Bullock（Attribution unverified） |
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Creative semantics is the key to contemporary government; it consists of talking in strange tongues lest the public learn the inevitable inconveniently early. — George Will（Attribution unverified） |
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Everything comes to him who waits, except a loaned book. — Kin Hubbard（Attribution unverified） |
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Art must always remain earnest... Art must be serious, no sarcasm, comedy. One does not laugh at a loved one. — Arshile Gorky（Attribution unverified） |
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If there is no sarcasm, there's no true love towards the mankind — Dmitry Pisarev（Attribution unverified） |
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Sufficiently advanced political correctness is indistinguishable from sarcasm. — Erik Naggum（Attribution unverified） |
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I squirm when I see athletes praying before a game. Don't they realize that if God took sports seriously he never would have created George Steinbrenner. — Mark Russell（Attribution unverified） |
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For some reason that only a sociologist might be able to accurately explain, the Brazilian Press was extremely unkind to me, reporting only selective derogatory untruthful rumors (some of which are still around), harsh criticism, and unwarranted sarcasm. I was very hurt by this. It was such great disappointment... When I came back from Brazil at that time, I made a promise to myself that I would never, ever again sing in Brazil. So far [as of 2002], I have kept this promise, having declined each and every invitation or proposals to perform in Brazil. Once was enough! — Astrud Gilberto（Attribution unverified） |
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I’ve noticed that one thing about parents is that no matter what stage your child is in, the parents who have older children always tell you the next stage is worse. — Dave Barry（Attribution unverified） |
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There are several differences between a footballl game and a revolution. For one thing, a football game usually lasts longer and the participants wear uniforms. Also there are more injuries at a football game. — Alfred Hitchcock（Attribution unverified） |
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Krzhizhanovsky wanted to perform imaginary experiments with the nature of time and space. Outside, in the streets, the Communist state was busy performing such experiments for real. In response, Krzhizhanovsky's prose has a recklessly unstable tone in which delighted examination of impossible worlds can slip into ferocious political sarcasm.... It is a method for investigating how much unreality reality can bear. — Adam Thirlwell（Attribution unverified） |
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It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid. — George Bernard Shaw（Attribution unverified） |
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I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence. — George Bernard Shaw（Attribution unverified） |
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The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post. — George Bernard Shaw（Attribution unverified） |
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When I first started writing, I was living in England and I had that uniquely English sense of sarcasm, which has definitely seemed to have left me. I am a naturalized American and my sensibility has become far more American. — Jane Green（Attribution unverified） |
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If you can find something everyone agrees on, it's wrong. — Mo Udall（Attribution unverified） |
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Getting married is like trading in the adoration of many for the sarcasm of one. — Mae West（Attribution unverified） |