Sarcastic Irony Quotes & Sayings

You can make fun of yourself and people will laugh at you. If you're smart, you'll end up as a comedian. If you're not, you'll end up as a clown. — Ljupka Cvetanova

I don't spend money on books. I write them myself. — Ljupka Cvetanova

Keep trying?
I'd rather keep walking. I mean, whisky is whisky — Ljupka Cvetanova

Men never forget true love. They always remember all the women they couldn't have. — Ljupka Cvetanova

I know the power of speech. I don't talk much. — Ljupka Cvetanova

No one plows the field just by thinking about it. — Ljupka Cvetanova

He takes my hand. Intertwines our fingers. Offers me a smile that manages to kiss my heart. — Tahereh Mafi

My films often have a very strong strain of irony, or even sarcasm, which is definitely related to homosexual camp. But it is by no means straightforward: quite often I am sincere when I appear to be sarcastic, and I am sarcastic when I appear to be sincere. I also try to contradict myself at least once a day, which is a camp must. — Bruce LaBruce

If you don't understand it, it's art. — Ljupka Cvetanova

People tell me they use my song 'Coming Home' at their weddings. My audience seems to range from young to old, and it's cool when you really get to connect with all different people. — Leon Bridges

I liked television, and television liked me. — Joel Siegel

He wants to know, "Why would you fuck up Tris's Barbies?" and now I'm like, Shit, is this the price of the sacrifice for Caroline passing out unexpectedly early - that Nick has taken over the melancholy stage that usually follows Caroline's inquisitive one? "I have three sisters and I know that's some serious business, messing with another girl's Barbies." Okay, maybe he's not being melancholy because his sarcastic smile lets me know he's back to being standard-issue band-boy irony creature. Damn him that it somewhat makes me wanna jump his bones. — David Levithan

I've worked with five Presidents in America, all of them I ask the same question always: Why didn't the American allies bomb the railways going to Auschwitz? — Elie Wiesel

I think you can take the recent war in Lebanon as a very good example of how this plays. The Americans and their allies clearly stood back - clearly in the eyes of Muslims - and basically said to the Israelis, "Do what you need to do, and we'll hold the ring for you and not call a cease-fire." That perception in the Muslim world very much played to the anti-American sentiment. — Michael Scheuer

You fucking knew that fucking cunt would fuck some cunt. — Irvine Welsh

This was the part of her weekend where the real dread kicked in. — Ann Brashares

The exact meaning of irony is so narrow that the word is hardly worth using; in its broad, current definition, it's a euphemism for sarcasm. 'I'm not being sarcastic; I'm being ironic.' No, you're not. You're evading the responsibility for being sarcastic. — Richard Corliss

Really?"
"No. I'm being ironic. Or is it sarcastic? I can never remember."
"Irony's cleverer, so you're probably being sarcastic. — Jonathan Stroud