Inevitably, anytime we are too vulnerable we feel the need to protect ourselves from further wounds. So we resort to sarcasm, cutting humor, criticism - anything that will keep from exposing the tenderness within. Each partner tends to wait on the initiative of the other for love, only to be disappointed but also confirmed as to the rightness of the accusations made.
As I said, this was my sarcastic summer. It was only long after that I recognized sarcasm as the protest of people who are weak.
If you can't detect the sarcasm you've misunderstood.
The National Rifle Association says, 'Guns don't kill people. People do'. But I think the gun helps.
There's a good sarcasm and a camaraderie that comes after being in a band. And we've known each other forever. We've never been a band that fought or argued. As a songwriter, I'm really happy that the boys support me and contribute and that, but I've always wanted to be under the band Stereophonics.
Growing up and living in England, I'm surrounded by grey skies and sarcasm, so when I came to America, my first impressions were bright, hopeful, cheerful.
Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.
What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.
Few authors are so interesting as their work - they generally reserve their wit or trenchant sarcasm for their books.
Well, sir, let us do what we can to curtail this visit, which can hardly be agreeable to you, and is inexpressibly irksome to me.
"I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always means an affaire de coeur. "
I was so furious I was actually dizzy with it. There were so many bitchy, sarcastic observations to make, I was having a sarcasm stroke. "My God! You people! You're - you're so stupid you're making my eyeballs throb. They're throbbing, dammit!
When a young man begins to go down hill everything seems to be greased for the occasion.
The best philosophical attitude to adopt towards the world is a union of the sarcasm of gaiety with the indulgence of contempt.
If you're choking in a restaurant you can just say the magic words, 'Heimlich maneuver,' and all will be well. Trouble is, it's difficult to say 'Heimlich maneuver' when you're choking to death.
With a touch of sarcasm. "Glass is an amazing material. Versatile.
Sarcasm doesn't read sarcastic in print.
I want either less corruption, or more chance to participate in it.
I do sarcasm really poorly.
Without sarcasm I sink into chaos.