SARCASM QUOTES II
quotations about sarcasm
Whether you're making an inside joke or judgmental comment, sarcasm is typically frowned upon. Some people don't get it, others can feel offended by it, and even though kids often hear their parents participating in sarcastic banter they get yelled at when they try to use it. However, sarcasm exercises the brain, both for the person dishing it out and the people interpreting. So, you might want to make sure that you have at least one sarcastic friend, because they can help you become smarter.
MORGAN CUTOLO
"The Science Is In: Sarcasm Makes You (And Your Friends) Smarter", Reader's Digest, April 11, 2017
Yet, I didn't understand that she was intentionally disguising her feelings with sarcasm; that was usually the last resort of people who are timid and chaste of heart, whose souls have been coarsely and impudently invaded; and who, until the last moment, refuse to yield out of pride and are afraid to express their own feelings to you.
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY
Notes from the Underground
Silence gets us nowhere
Sarcasm gets us there quicker
GOVERNMENT ISSUE
"World Caved In"
Sarcasm is a quality of great offense to others, and danger toward a man's self.
WILLIAM WENTWORTH
attributed, Day's Collacon
Sarcasm is a legitimate linguistic device in the hands of a master.
ANONYMOUS
The Northwestern Lutheran, 1989
In the unlikely event
That sarcasm is an unfitting dress
Amnesia proletariat
Amnesia proletariat
Coughing up the coffins
Cotton candy coated teeth
The reflection of your enamel
Made no reflection in our mirror
AT THE DRIVE-IN
"300 MHz"
The spirit of sarcasm lives and thrives in the midst of universal wreck; its balls are enchanted and itself invulnerable, and it braves retaliations and reprisals because itself is a mere flash, a bodiless and magical nothing.
HENRI-FREDERIC AMIEL
Journal Intime
Sarcasm is a very effective tool of criticism and can accomplish much more than direct language can.
DAVID MARCUS
From Balaam to Jonah
Sarcasm systematically erodes the truth value of statements. Of what use is the freedom to speak your mind if you never do speak your mind, or the words you use to speak your mind have no truth value?
MIHIR BALANTRAPU
"How a ban on sarcasm is a protection of free speech", The Hindu, September 10, 2016
Sarcasm is a complex notion not in that it requires both segmental text and intonational melody (all spoken language does), but in that it must presuppose and deviate from an implicit model of appropriate melody or melodic coincidence.
JACOB MEY
Concise Encyclopedia of Pragmatics
Detecting sarcasm isn't always easy. How many times have we stood, slack-jawed, asking ourselves whether the words we'd just heard come out of a colleague's mouth were supposed to be sarcastic?
DAVID SHIPLEY & WILL SCHWALBE
Send (Revised Edition)
Sarcasm is not a healing or "bridging" type of humor. It can seem like hostility veiled as humor and have more of an alienating effect.
DAVID SCHOPICK
"How to improve your communication skills", Fosters, September 24, 2017
As a form involving a network of roles, sarcasm is analytically at least a triadic relationship, although empirically fewer units may be involved. Minimally, a creator of sarcasm, a sarcaster, is necessary, along with an object and an audience.
GREGORY PRENTICE STONE & HARVEY A. FARBERMAN
Social Psychology Through Symbolic Interaction
He that employs sarcasm in his reproofs commonly hath more wit than wisdom.
JEROME HERMES BOLSEC
attributed, Day's Collacon
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ANONYMOUS
If she replies to your sarcasm with sarcasm instead of just getting offended ... she's a keeper.
ANONYMOUS
Sarcasm is a tool, and he will use it as his personal work of art whenever he can. Don't let it get under your skin.
JUDITH TURNER
The Hidden World of Relationships
Sarcasm is one of the hardest language concepts for a machine to detect, but to improve natural-language processing (which could, for example, greatly advance the abilities of chatbots) we're going to have to train computers to do just that. To make that happen, computer scientists need vast amounts of sarcasm data. Last week, computer science graduate students from Princeton University added their efforts to a growing body of research, with what they think is the largest database of sarcasm to date.
THU-HUONG HA
"The biggest known database of sarcasm is here. Great", Quartz, April 24, 2017
There is a great need for a sarcasm font.
MACKEY MILLER
Mouse Attack 5!!!
They say that sarcasm is the lowest form of wit. Well, in that case, there must be plenty of witty people in the office. Sarcasm is easy. It requires little by way of intelligence or, indeed, skill. What it does require, however, is an acerbic sense of humour coupled with excellent timing and an eye for your colleagues' weak spots.
ANDREW HOLMES
Pains in the Office: 50 People You Absolutely, Definitely Must Avoid at Work!