All quotes
Every published quote, filterable by category, tone and mood.
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How do you feel about women's rights? I like either side of them. — Groucho Marx（Attribution unverified） |
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Every time I look at you I get a fierce desire to be lonesome. — Oscar Levant（Attribution unverified） |
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Sarcasm is lost in print. — Jon Cryer（Attribution unverified） |
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When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I'm beginning to believe it. — Clarence Darrow（Attribution unverified） |
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Sarcasm is weird. Even not in acting, in life I feel 'sarcastic' is a word that people use to describe me sometimes so when I meet someone, it's almost they feel they have to also be sarcastic, but it can sometimes just come off as mean if it's not used in the right way. — Aubrey Plaza（Attribution unverified） |
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To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness. — Oscar Wilde（Attribution unverified） |
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Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak. — Alan Dundes（Attribution unverified） |
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Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable. — Mark Twain（Attribution unverified） |
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Weather forecast for tonight: dark. — George Carlin（Attribution unverified） |
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Fools are my theme, let satire be my song. — Lord Byron（Attribution unverified） |
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Laughing at someone else is an excellent way of learning how to laugh at oneself; and questioning what seem to be the absurd beliefs of another group is a good way of recognizing the potential absurdity of many of one's own cherished beliefs. — Gore Vidal（Attribution unverified） |
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I believe no satirist could breathe this air. If another Juvenal or Swift could rise up among us tomorrow, he would be hunted down. If you have any knowledge of our literature, and can give me the name of any man, American born and bred, who has anatomised our follies as a people, and not as this or that party; and who has escaped the foulest and most brutal slander, the most inveterate hatred and intolerant pursuit; it will be a strange name in my ears, believe me. — Charles Dickens（Attribution unverified） |
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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. — Rowan Atkinson（Attribution unverified） |
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Satire must not be a kind of superfluous ill will, but ill will from a higher point of view. Ridiculous man, divine God. Or else, hatred against the bogged-down vileness of average man as against the possible heights that humanity might attain. — Paul Klee（Attribution unverified） |
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Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper. — Mark Twain（Attribution unverified） |
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If you can smile when things go wrong, you have someone in mind to blame. — Ashleigh Brilliant（Attribution unverified） |
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Without sarcasm I sink into chaos. — Antonin Artaud（Attribution unverified） |
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He loves nature in spite of what it did to him. — Forrest Tucker（Attribution unverified） |
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I grew up in an environment of jokes and sarcasm and puns. I talk that way, so I write that way. — Allan Sloan（Attribution unverified） |
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Out of the unconscious lips of babes and sucklings are we satirized. — Mark Twain（Attribution unverified） |