Quotes with sarcasm

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  • Bruce Lee As an instructor, you must be able to distinguish between poor performance caused by lack of ability or aptitude on the part of the student and poor performance caused by lack of effort. You should treat the first with patience and the latter with firmness. You must never apply sarcasm and ridicule.
    Source: Jeet Kune Do (1997) Part 5 On training in Jeet Kune Do
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • George Eliot Blows are sarcasm's turned stupid.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • James Thurber Humor does not include sarcasm, invalid irony, sardonicism, innuendo, or any other form of cruelty. When these things are raised to a high point they can become wit, but unlike the French and the English, we have not been much good at wit since the days of Benjamin Franklin.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Alfred P. Sloan I grew up in an environment of jokes and sarcasm and puns. I talk that way, so I write that way.
    Alfred P. Sloan
    American businessman (1875 - 1966)
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  • Ben Foster I'm so sick of sarcasm and irony, I could kill! Sincerely, the real root of things is love and sacrifice.
    Ben Foster
    American actor (1980 - )
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  • Alanis Morissette In my opinion, I think sarcasm and humor in a song, without turning it into a novelty song, is really charming.
    Alanis Morissette
    Canadian-American singer, songwriter and actress (1974 - )
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  • Rufus Choate Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.
    Rufus Choate
    American lawyer, orator, and Congressman (1799 - 1859)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Fjodor M. Dostojewski Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.
    Fjodor M. Dostojewski
    Russisch writer (1821 - 1881)
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  • Johann Kaspar Lavater There are many kinds of smiles, each having a distinct character. Some announce goodness and sweetness, others betray sarcasm, bitterness and pride; some soften the countenance by their languishing tenderness, others brighten by their spiritual vivacity.
    Johann Kaspar Lavater
    Swiss theologist and mysticist (1741 - 1801)
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  • Marianne Moore We are suffering from too much sarcasm.
    Marianne Moore
    American poet (1887 - 1972)
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  • Roland Barthes What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth.
    Roland Barthes
    French writer, literary critic, linguist and philosopher (1915 - 1980)
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  • Edgar Allan Poe 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
    American poet, writer and critic (1809 - 1849)
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