All quotes
Every published quote, filterable by category, tone and mood.
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When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite. — Winston Churchill（Attribution unverified） |
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This music won't do. There's not enough sarcasm in it. — Samuel Goldwyn（Attribution unverified） |
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In Lubbock, we grew up with two main things: God loves you and he's gonna send you to hell, and that sex is bad and dirty and nasty and awful and you should save it for the one you love. — Butch Hancock（Attribution unverified） |
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I have witnessed and greatly enjoyed the first act of everything which Wagner created, but the effect on me has always been so powerful that one act was quite sufficient; whenever I have witnessed two acts I have gone away physically exhausted; and whenever I have ventured an entire opera the result has been the next thing to suicide. — Mark Twain（Attribution unverified） |
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The covers of this book are too far apart. — Ambrose Bierce（Attribution unverified） |
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Some people approach every problem with an open mouth. — Adlai E. Stevenson（Attribution unverified） |
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It's easier to replace a dead man than a good picture. — George Bernard Shaw（Attribution unverified） |
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The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of merely a comma, it often occurs that an axiom appears a paradox, or that a sarcasm is converted into a sermonoid. — Edgar Allan Poe（Attribution unverified） |
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""Dear girl," continued Bob advancing with an imbecile grin upon his countenance, which he imagined no doubt to be a seductive smile, "fly with me! Be mine! Share with me the wild free life of a barrister! Say that you return the love which consumes my heart - oh, say it!" Here Bob put his hand over a hole in his waistcoat and struck a dramatic attitude. — Arthur Conan Doyle（Attribution unverified） |
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Brothers are a blessing for one thing. There is no possibility of any young lady getting unreasonably conceited if she be endowed with them. — Arthur Conan Doyle（Attribution unverified） |
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Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before. — Rita Rudner（Attribution unverified） |
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Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain. — Lily Tomlin（Attribution unverified） |
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My brothers are both 6 ft. 5 in., and if you have younger brothers who are bigger than you then you have to learn the ancient martial art of sarcasm. — Nick Moran（Attribution unverified） |
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My son Cooper has just turned ten and the sarcasm fairy has already started to take up residence inside his body. Not only am I living with my mother - again! - but I've also got her mini-me to contend with. — Melissa Rivers（Attribution unverified） |
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Goresthorpe Grange is a feudal mansion - or so it was termed in the advertisement which originally brought it under my notice. Its right to this adjective had a most remarkable effect upon its price, and the advantages gained may possibly be more sentimental than real. Still, it is soothing to me to know that I have slits in my staircase through which I can discharge arrows; and there is a sense of power in the fact of possessing a complicated apparatus by means of which I am enabled to pour molten lead upon the head of the casual visitor. — Arthur Conan Doyle（Attribution unverified） |
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Beethoven always sounds to me like the upsetting of a bag of nails, with here and there an also dropped hammer. — John Ruskin（Attribution unverified） |
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Some intentionally injure others through mocking, sarcasm with no intent to help. Others are trying to help. — Sterling W Sill（Attribution unverified） |
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Love has been taken away from the poets, and has been brought within the domain of true science. It may prove to be one of the great cosmic elementary forces. When the atom of hydrogen draws the atom of chlorine towards it to form the perfected molecule of hydrochloric acid, the force which it exerts may be intrinsically similar to that which draws me to you. Attraction and repulsion appear to be the primary forces. This is attraction. — Arthur Conan Doyle（Attribution unverified） |
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My natural-born sarcasm, when it's unimpeded, can be a bit overbearing at times and I'm the first to admit that. — Tom Bergeron（Attribution unverified） |
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Instant gratification takes too long. — Carrie Fisher（Attribution unverified） |