“Sarcasm is the language of the devil, for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it”
Thomas Carlyle
“Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil.”
“I love it when someone insults me. That means that I don't have to be nice anymore.”
Billy Idol
“There are many kinds of smiles, each having a distinct character. Some announce goodness and sweetness, others betray sarcasm, bitterness and pride; some soften the countenance by their languishing tenderness, others brighten by their spiritual vivac”
Johann Kaspar Lavater
“He has to learn that petulance is no sarcasm, and that insolence is not invective”
Benjamin Disraeli
“What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth.”
Roland Barthes
“Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.”
Samuel Butler
