We all know that sarcasm is defined as witty statements that are said in an ironic, sometimes even bitter way for the main purpose of attacking an individual or group of individuals while providing amusement. Being sarcastic can be useful in just plain providing amusement, showing that you are irritated, directed at someone as insulting, or even be used in a defensive way.
People normally associate sarcasm with its definition of intending to cut or wound a person, place or thing with a mocking statement though.
Scientists that have studied sarcasm and the human mind, say that the inability to understand sarcasm usually means that they have some sort of mental disorder that doesn’t allow them to distinguish the difference between being sarcastic and being sincere.
Children tend to understand and use sarcasm around the time they go to kindergarten, if they don’t understand sarcasm by this time it could be an early sign of brain disease. While monitoring brains, scientists also have discovered that it makes the brain work harder to understand sarcasm than just understanding a sincere statement. Essentially, using and understanding sarcasm makes the brain sharper and enables creative problem solving. Okay, without further ado, here are the best quotes about sarcasm – guaranteed to crack you up!
Sarcasm Quotes
- “Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until they speak.” – Steven Wright
- “A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.” – Ogden Nash
- “Sarcasm is the last refuge of the imaginatively bankrupt.” – Cassandra Clare, City of Bones
- “History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.” – Abba Eban
- “I’m not saying I hate you, what I’m saying is that you are literally the Monday of my life.” – Unknown
- “Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.” – Fyodor Dostoevsky
- “If you’ve never met the devil in the road of life, it’s because you’re both heading in the same direction.” – Unknown
- “When people ask me stupid questions, it is my legal obligation to give a sarcastic remark.” – Unknown
- “If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.” – George Bernard Shaw
- “‘Are you always a smart*ss?’ Nope. Sometimes I’m asleep.” – Jim Butcher, Blood Rites
- “Just because I don’t care doesn’t mean I don’t understand.” – Homer Simpson
- “Silence is golden. Duct tape is silver.” – Unknown
- “Sarcasm is weird. Even not in acting, in life I feel like ‘sarcastic’ is a word that people use to describe me sometimes so when I meet someone, it’s almost like they feel like 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
- “Well my imaginary friend thinks you have serious mental problems.” – Unknown
- “It’s okay if you don’t like me. Not everyone has good taste.” – Unknown
- “As a child my family’s menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.” – Buddy Hackett
- “You see, that is the sad, sorry, terrible thing about sarcasm… It’s really funny.” – Brandon Sanderson, Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians
- “If anything can go wrong, it will.” – Murphy’s Laws
- “Find your patience before I lose mine.” – Unknown
- “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
- “People say that laughter is the best medicine, your face must be curing the world.” – Unknown
- “You look good when your eyes are closed, but you look the best when my eyes closed.” – Unknown
- “Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.” – Albert Camus
- “‘We…we could be friends.’ We COULD be rare specimens of an exotic breed of dancing African elephants, but we’re not. At least, I’M not.” – Neil Gaiman, Coraline
- “Reality is just a crutch for people who can’t cope with drugs.” – Robin Williams
- “Do you think God gets stoned? I think so… look at the platypus.” – Robin Williams
- “Mirrors can’t talk, lucky for you, they can’t laugh either.” – Unknown
- “Some sarcasm is best told simply.” – Kevin Hart
- “The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.” – Bill Watterson
- “This is what happened in love. One of you cried a lot and then both of you grew sarcastic.” – Lorrie Moore, Like Life
- “God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at the same time.” – Robin Williams
- “I’m sorry while you were talking I was trying to figure where the h*ll you got the idea I cared.” – Unknown
- “The whole purpose of sending a text is to get a reply within seconds or minutes, otherwise, I would have sent a letter by f*cking mail.” – Unknown
- “Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument.” – Rufus Choate
- “If had a dollar for every smart thing you say. I’ll be poor.” – Unknown
- “Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.” – Charles M. Schulz
- “Ask me no questions, and I’ll tell you no fibs.” – Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer
- “I’m sorry I hurt your feelings when I called you stupid. I really thought you already knew.” – Unknown
- “You know the difference between a tornado and divorce in the South? Nothing! Someone’s losing a trailer, number one.” – Robin Williams
- “If you think nobody cares if you’re alive, try missing a couple of car payments.” – Unknown
- “A sarcastic person has a superiority complex that can be cured only by the honesty of humility.” – Lawrence G. Lovasik
- “I don’t believe in plastic surgery. But in your case, go ahead.” – Unknown
- “If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.” – The Dalai Lama
- “Awww,” Minho said. “That’s almost as sweet as that time she slammed the end of a spear into your shuck face.” – James Dashner, The Death Cure
- “Ah, yes, divorce … from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man’s genitals through his wallet.” – Robin Williams
- “Don’t worry about what people think. They don’t do it very often.” – Unknown
- “If you want to change the world, do it while you’re single. Once you’re married you can’t even change the TV Channel.” – Unknown
- “Sarcasm the body’s natural defense against stupidity.” – Unknown
- “Are you always so stupid or is today a special ocassion?” – Unknown
- “Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.” – George Burns
- “They say sarcasm is the lowest form of wit,” Valkyrie said. China glanced at her. “They’ve obviously never met me.” – Derek Landy, Mortal Coil
- “Yet despite the look on my face… you are still talking.” – Unknown
- “Sarcasm was usually lost on imbeciles.” – Sherrilyn Kenyon
- “Sarcasm–the ability to insult idiots without them realizing it.” – Unknown
- “Need money for college. Need college for a job. Need a job for money. Who was the mastermind behind this system?” – Unknown
- “I feel so miserable without you, it’s almost like having you here.” – Unknown
- “Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.” – Margaret Mead
- “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
- “Sometimes I need what only you can provide: your absence.” – Ashleigh Brilliant
- “Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves?” – Robin Williams
- “Askhole. A person who constantly asks for your advice, yet always does the opposite of what you told them.” – Unknown
- “Sarcasm helps me overcome the harshness of the reality we live, eases the pain of scars and makes people smile.” – Mahmoud Darwish
- “If you find me offensive. Then I suggest you quit finding me.” – Unknown
- “Folks, I don’t trust children. They’re here to replace us.” – Stephen Colbert
- “Are you insinuatin’ that my daughter is a liar?’ Oh, no, not at all. I’m saying your daughter is a liar. Surely you can appreciate the difference.” – Kami Garcia, Beautiful Creatures
- “It’s a match made in heaven…by a retarded angel.” – Woody Allen
- “I would like to apologize to anyone I have not offended yet. Please be patient. I will get to you shortly.” – Unknown
- “Tact is for people who aren’t witty enough to use sarcasm.” – Unknown
- “When dealing with sarcastic people, prescribe them the same course of medicine but with a stronger dosage.” – Unknown
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Summary
Understanding and using sarcasm is essential to communicating in today’s world. When used in moderation and carefully, sarcasm can spark creativity in the workplace, at school or at home with your family and friends. In addition, sarcasm can be quite harmful to a relationship with a friend, lover, family member or colleague.
It has been studied that using sarcasm with people you trust and that trust you can be beneficial and fun to a relationship, but using sarcasm with someone that is untrusting of you can damage a relationship greatly, but what’s a relationship without trust anyways? Send these quotes to the friends, colleagues, family members, or a lover that you often benefit from using sarcasm with in that fun and humorous way.
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