Sarcasm

Sarcasm is a form of intelligence or sarcastic expression, often involving irony. the definition of sarcasm is: the use of humor.

• 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, Sartor Resartus (1833-1834), book II, ch. IV

• Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.
  • Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes From the Underground (1864)

• Sarcasm is the refuge of losers.
  • Richard Hoover, Little Miss Sunshine (2006)

• Sarcasm and compassion are two of the qualities that make life on earth tolerable.
  • Nick Hornby, Songbook (2003)

• Sarcasm: the last defense of the truly witless.
  • John G. Pollard, Letters (1981)

• Sarcasm is not the rapier of wit its wielders seem to believe it to be, but merely a club: it may, by dint of brute force, occasionally raise bruises, but it never cuts or pierces.
  • Rex Stout, as Nero Wolfe

• Sarcasm is the refuge of a shallow mind.
  • Anthony "Tony" DiNozzo, NCIS (2005), season III, episode XII, "Boxed In"

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