quotations about sarcasm
They say that sarcasm is the lowest form of wit. Well, in that case, there must be plenty of witty people in the office. Sarcasm is easy. It requires little by way of intelligence or, indeed, skill. What it does require, however, is an acerbic sense of humour coupled with excellent timing and an eye for your colleagues' weak spots.
ANDREW HOLMES
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Sarcasm also offers obfuscators a tool of brazen negation--a convenient and often unassailable alibi that absolves them of the repercussions of having made an outrageous statement.
MIHIR BALANTRAPU
"How a ban on sarcasm is a protection of free speech", The Hindu, September 10, 2016
Sarcasm: The ability to insult idiots without them realizing it.
ANONYMOUS
At the best, sarcasms, bitter irony, scathing wit, are a sort of sword-play of the mind. You pink your adversary and he is forthwith dead: and then you deserve to be hung for it.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE
Intuitions and Summaries of Thought
Sarcasm is an extremely stress-provoking form of communication because the recipient is always left in doubt as to the truthfulness of the comment.
MICHAEL A. SCADDAN
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People use sarcasm to distance themselves in a bid for superiority. If you're sincere all the time, you seem naïve.
MIHIR BALANTRAPU
"How a ban on sarcasm is a protection of free speech", The Hindu, September 10, 2016
Sarcasm is the last refuge of the imaginatively bankrupt.
CASSANDRA CLARE
City of Bones
Sarcasm and attitude are so much cheaper than therapy and bail money!
ANONYMOUS
It's all fun and games until someone doesn't pick up on the sarcasm.
ANONYMOUS
Sarcasm Boy
You know, some of us are not amused
FREAK KITCHEN
"Nobody's Laughing"
But yeah, the inability to understand irony and the art of sarcasm is typical for the obtuse of this world.
ROBERT PASBANI
"Marilyn Manson Calls KISS 'Four Gay Dudes in Halloween Costumes'", Metal Injection, September 25, 2017
Sarcasm is actually hostility disguised as humor.
CLIFFORD N. LAZARUS
"Think Sarcasm is Funny? Think Again", Psychology Today
Clearly, sarcasm comes from the warm and fuzzy milk of human kindness. Not.
MIHIR BALANTRAPU
"How a ban on sarcasm is a protection of free speech", The Hindu, September 10, 2016
That's the difference between irony and sarcasm. Irony can be spontaneous, while sarcasm requires volition. You have to create sarcasm.
CHRISTOPHER MOORE
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
Sarcasm, I hear you shriek out in its defence, is not that hard to detect; just listen for inflections in the voice. Ah, but true sarcasm is that which is utterly poker-voiced. No chinks. No cadential clues.
MIHIR BALANTRAPU
"How a ban on sarcasm is a protection of free speech", The Hindu, September 10, 2016
Not all sarcasm is bad, and in the right situations it can be useful if not hilarious.
ERIC FLUCKEY
"Why Sarcasm Is So Great", Huffington Post, August 4, 2015
The character of sarcasm is dangerous; although this quality makes those laugh whom it does not wound, it nevertheless never procures esteem.
OXENSTIERN
attributed, Day's Collacon
It's wildly irritating to have invented something as revolutionary as sarcasm, only to have it abused by amateurs.
CHRISTOPHER MOORE
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
The arrows of sarcasm are barbed with contempt.
WASHINGTON GLADDEN
Things Old and New
Ladies and gentlemen
Welcome to the disclaimer
That's right the disclaimer
This American apple pie institution
Known as parental discretion
Will cleanse any sense of innuendo or sarcasm
From the lyrics that might actually make you think
And will also insult your intelligence at the same time
THE OFFSPRING
"Disclaimer"