Sarcasm
6 quotes
Biography
Sarcasm is the caustic use of words, often in a humorous way, to mock someone or something. Sarcasm may employ ambivalence, and is also commonly associated with, though it does not necessarily contain, irony.
"Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded."
"Sarcasm is the refuge of losers."
"Sarcasm and compassion are two of the qualities that make life on earth tolerable."
"Sarcasm: the last defense of the truly witless."
"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."
"Sarcasm is the refuge of a shallow mind."