Top 10 Sarcastic Quotes

If you can't enjoy what you can't come up with, why not enjoy what other people have said? Precisely. What they have said is probably better than what you would ever be able to come up with. There's no reason not to enjoy what other people have said that you can't.

1. "You have delighted us long enough." ~Jane Austen

2. "Sometimes I need only what you can provide: your absence." ~Ashleigh Brilliant

3. "It's always darkest before it turns absolutely pitch black." ~Paul Newman

4. "It's a catastrophic success." ~Stephen Bishop

5. "I feel so miserable without you, it's almost like having you here." ~Stephen Bishop

6. "Marriage is the chief cause of divorce." ~Groucho Marx

7. "A child of five could understand this. Fetch me a child of five." ~Groucho Marx

8. "He has Van Gogh's ear for music." ~Billy Wilder

9. "If you don't read the newspaper, you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed." ~Mark Twain.

10. "Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason." ~Seinfield

The top ten I'd say after reading through about a hundred over. It was really so enjoyable to read all those great quotes from great people who can actually come up with them.

An introduction to sarcasm.

Firstly, what is sarcasm? "Sarcasm is the rhetorical device of using a characterization of something or someone in order to express contempt. It is closely connected with irony, in that the two are often combined in the same statement." as defined by Wikipedia. It comes from the ancient Greek σαρκάζω (sarkazo) meaning 'to tear flesh' but the ancient Greek word for the rhetorical concept of taunting was instead χλευασμός (chleyasmόs). Sarcasm appears several times in the Old Testament, for example:

Lo, you see the man is mad; why then have you brought him to me? Do I lack madmen, that you have brought this fellow to play the madman in my presence? —Achish, king of Gath , I Sam 21:10-15

Indeed, sarcasm was even used in the bible.

However, I would beg to differ on such a precise and impartial description. After all, this is a blog about sarcasm and, as we all know, sarcasm is never objective and hardly ever accurate as a result.

Sarcasm should be defined as a literary device for identifying the stupid and nothing else.

Based on that, a very welcome to the world of sarcasm! (not that the world of sarcasm actually needs you)

Yours Truly.