Yeah, surely the quotes you’ll find below aren’t sarcastic. Not the slightest bit. They’re just as light and cheery as daffodil fluff floating in the azure summer sky, with no dual meanings, no sly remarks, and no storm clouds here.
Nuh-uh, no way. They aren’t even that funny; who cares for sarcastic quotes, anyway? Only sweet old ladies, probably. However, if you’d still like to try these no-good, dark quotes, we’ve gathered an insignificant amount of 40 sarcastic sayings for your judgment.
In all seriousness, though, sarcastic quotes are the best—they are slightly stingy and inherently clever, they can be used on almost any occasion, and if your opponent is worthy, they’ll even grant a belly-full of laughs. Some of these funny, ironic quotes originated in famous people’s heads, like Oscar Wilde and Aldous Huxley; others are of mysteriously undocumented origins.
With those ironic quotes about life, you can always claim them as your own! That is if you think the receiver will understand them fully; otherwise, all you will get is a tumbleweed slowly rolling between you two, and the resulting awkward silence will fall on your conscience.
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"God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at the same time." – Robin Williams
"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go." – Oscar Wilde
"If I wanted to kill myself I would climb your ego and jump to your IQ."
"I can explain it to you but I can’t understand it for you."
"I always say 'Morning' Instead of 'good morning' Because if it was a good morning, I would still be in bed and not talking to people."
"Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist." – Michael Levine
"An optimist thinks that this is the best possible world. A pessimist fears that this is true." – Robert Oppenheimer
"If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in the dark with a mosquito."
"Sarcasm is the body’s natural defense against stupidity."
"Everyone has the right to be stupid, but you are abusing the privilege."
"I’m sorry I hurt your feelings when I called you stupid. I really thought you already knew."
"Before you judge a man, walk a mile in his shoes. After that who cares? He’s a mile away and you’ve got his shoes!" – Billy Connolly
"A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well-known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." – Fred Allen
Why would anyone want to be famous? I'll take rich for sure. But to have no privacy and everyone looking at you and in your business? No wonder many very famous people eventually go nuts, or just lose touch with reality.
"Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until they speak." – Steven Wright
"Sarcasm, because beating the crap out of people is illegal."
"Politics: ‘Poli’ a Latin word meaning ‘many’; and ‘tics’ meaning ‘bloodsucking creatures’." – Robin Williams
"Don’t mistake this fake smile and professional body language. I’d punch you in the throat if I knew I wouldn’t lose my job."
"My girlfriend is always stealing my t-shirts and sweaters... But if I take one of her dresses, suddenly "we need to talk".
"If at first, you don’t succeed, skydiving is not for you."
"A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him." – Sir Winston Churchill
"Honesty may be the best policy, but insanity is the best defense."
"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." – Albert Einstein
"Folks, I don’t trust children. They’re here to replace us." – Stephen Colbert
"Don’t worry about what people think. They don’t do it very often."
"My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn’t pay the bill he gave me six months more." – Walter Matthau
i heard i another one that say the doctor gave me one month to live so i shot him in the face the jury gave me 12 problem solved
"Here’s to another day of outward smiles and inward screams."
"So you mean to tell me a stress ball isn’t for throwing at people who stress you out?"
"I clapped because it’s finished, not because I like it."
"When one door closes, another opens. Or you can open the closed door. That’s how doors work."
"I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying." – Oscar Wilde
"Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school." – Albert Einstein
"History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives." – Abba Eban
"I am busy right now, can I ignore you some other time?"
"Sarcasm is the secret language that everyone uses when they want to say something mean to your face."
"If you want to change the world, do it while you’re single. Once you’re married you can’t even change the TV Channel."
"My uncle's dying wish – he wanted me on his lap. He was in the electric chair." – Rodney Dangerfield
My favorite Rodney quote: My psychiatrist told me I was crazy and I said I want a second opinion. He said okay - you're ugly, too.
"People say laughter is the best medicine. Your face must be curing the world."
"If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There’s no point in being a damn fool about it." – W. C. Fields
"Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile." – Billy Sunday
"They say marriages are made in heaven. But so is thunder and lightning." – Clint Eastwood
"I am not young enough to know everything." – Oscar Wilde
"The bigger your family, the bigger your problems."
"Just because I don’t care doesn’t mean I don’t understand."
"Some people just need a high-five. In the face. With a chair."
"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on." – Winston Churchill
"If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something." – Murphy’s Laws
"Just keep talking, I yawn when I’m interested."
"If you find me offensive. Then I suggest you quit finding me."
"Life is hard; it’s harder if you’re stupid." – John Wayne
"When something goes wrong in your life, just yell 'Plot Twist' and move on."
"I’d tell you to go to hell, but I work there and don’t want to see your ugly mug every day."
Don't tell Your enemies to go to hell - there are to many great and interesting people there
"I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect." – Oscar Wilde
(...) Sir Thomas frowned. "I am afraid that your nephew is prejudiced against that great country," he said to Lady Agatha. "I have travelled all over it in cars provided by the directors, who, in such matters, are extremely civil. I assure you that it is an education to visit it." "But must we really see Chicago in order to be educated?" asked Mr. Erskine plaintively. "I don't feel up to the journey." Sir Thomas waved his hand. "Mr. Erskine of Treadley has the world on his shelves. We practical men like to see things, not to read about them. The Americans are an extremely interesting people. They are absolutely reasonable. I think that is their distinguishing characteristic. Yes, Mr. Erskine, an absolutely reasonable people. I assure you there is no nonsense about the Americans." "How dreadful!" cried Lord Henry. "I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect."
"With the rise of self-driving vehicles, it's only a matter of time before we get a country song where a guy's truck leaves him too."
"Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them." – Walter Kerr
"Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke." – Will Rogers
"When I was a boy, I had a disease that required me to eat dirt three times a day in order to survive... It's a good thing my older brother told me about it."
"There are times here my greatest achievement is keeping my mouth shut."
"I love sarcasm. It’s like punching people in the face but with words."
"I want to die peacefully in my sleep, like my grandfather... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car."
"When people ask me stupid questions, it is my legal obligation to give a sarcastic remark."
I was gonna say Trump? But no it takes intelligence to be sarcastic.
"Reality is just a crutch for people who can’t cope with drugs." – Robin Williams
"Family ties mean that no matter how much you might want to run from your family, you can't."
"Repeating quotes from funny movies doesn’t make you funny."
This!! Every adolescent to mid twenties guy speaks in movie quotes and believe themselves to be the funniest, coolest, most original person. And it's like nah Brofessor, you just watch alot of movies and cannot come up with your own funny sh*t so you borrow others. That doesn't make you cool, unless you have perfect timing with an awesome line that's so perfect and out of the blue that is actually funny. But if it's how you always talk, you suck
"Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern… like bad wallpaper." – Friedrich Nietzsche
"I feel so miserable without you, it’s almost like having you here."
"Everyone seems normal until you get to know them."
"A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer."
"Yet despite the look on my face… you are still talking."
Definitely applies to my youngest brother, who is also known as Gabzilla.
"The time you realize your kids are in bed and have been watching The Disney channel for the past hour by yourself."
"My attitude in exams. They give me questions I don’t know. I give them answers they don’t know."
"I hate it when I think I’m buying organic vegetables but when I get home, I discover they’re just regular donuts."
"Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner." – Douglas Adams
"Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing." – William James
"Having a two-year-old is like having a blender that you don't have the top for." – Jerry Seinfeld
"If you think nobody cares if you’re alive, try missing a couple of car payments."
"Behind every angry woman is a man who has absolutely no idea what he did wrong."
"Money can’t buy love, but it sure gets you a great bargaining position." – Murphy’s Laws
"People that pay for things never complain. It’s the guy you give something to that you can’t please." – Will Rogers
"Let’s share… You’ll take the grenade, I’ll take the pin."
"Sorry for the mean, awful, and accurate things I said."
"New Year's Resolution: casual promises that I am under no legal obligation to fulfill."
"Apparently I snore so loudly that it scares everyone in the car I'm driving."
"Are you always so stupid or is today a special ocassion?"
"What are the proper proportions of a maxim? A minimum of sound to a maximum of sense." – Mark Twain
"Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children." – Sam Levenson
"I'm not saying your perfume is too strong. I'm just saying the canary was alive before you got here."
"My family is temperamental, half temper half mental."
Ah yes, like a psychological relationship. One is a psycho, the other is logical
"Please submit your ideas to me today so I can submit them as my own tomorrow."
"Don’t you hate people who use big words just to make themselves look perspicacious?"
"Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite and furthermore always carry a small snake." – W. C. Fields
"My level of sarcasm has gotten to a point where I don't even know if I am kidding anymore."
"I hope when I inevitably choke to death on gummy bears people just say I was killed by bears and leave it at that."
"Ah, yes, divorce … from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man’s genitals through his wallet." – Robin Williams
"Sometimes I need what only you can provide: your absence." – Ashleigh Brilliant
"I’m sorry. I know I said hi, but I wasn’t really prepared for any follow-up conversation."
I don't like to think before I speak. I enjoy being as surprised as anyone else about the stuff I'm talking!
"That is the ugliest top I’ve ever seen, yet it compliments your face perfectly."
Fashion designers who decide which clothes are the absolutely ultra-modern hot stuff every season secretly wait if people really buy and wear their creations... then laugh out loud because people really buy and wear their creations!
"They say each day is a gift! Well, I want to know where customer service is so I can return this one."
"If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you'll be going, you know, we're alright. We are dang near royalty." – Jeff Foxworthy
"I think my neighbor is stalking me as she's been googling my name on her computer. I saw it through my telescope last night."
Interesting that the "Monoscope" I've seen in adverts is full of high-rise buildings w/o a star in sight...😬...Be VERY afraid.
"I don’t believe in plastic surgery. But in your case, go ahead."
"Asking politicians to give up a source of money is like asking Dracula to forsake blood." – Cal Thomas
"If you want to call a family meeting - turn off the WiFi and sit in the room where it is located."
"Keep rolling your eyes, you might just find a brain back there."
"A straight face and a sincere-sounding "Huh?" have gotten me out of more trouble than I can remember."
"There are only two things a child will share willingly—communicable diseases and his mother's age." – Benjamin Spock
"Mother Nature is wonderful. She gives us twelve years to develop a love for our children before turning them into teenagers." – Eugene Bertin
"If you must make a noise, make it quietly." – Oliver Hardy
"Smoking will kill you... Bacon will kill you... But, smoking bacon will cure it."
"What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera." – Aldous Huxley
"He was happily married – but his wife wasn’t." – Victor Borge
"No, you don’t have to repeat yourself. I was ignoring you the first time."
"Well that escalated quickly – our family motto."
"Caller ID was invented for family screening."
"It's an easy tool this world- just pretend like you know everything."
"Always remember that you’re unique. Just like everyone else."
And the corollary; "Just because you're unique doesn't make you useful."
"We are all born crazy. Some of us remain that way." – Samuel Beckett
"My dad died when we couldn't remember his blood type. As he died, he kept insisting for us to "be positive," but it's hard without him."
"My boss is going to fire the employee with the worst posture. I have a hunch, it might be me."
"Strong people don't put others down. They lift them up and slam them on the ground for maximum damage."
"Nobody really cares if you’re miserable, so you might as well be happy." – Cynthia Nelms
"If minutes were kept of a family gathering, they would show that 'Members not Present' and 'Subjects Discussed' were one and the same." – Robert Brault
"Two wrongs don't make a right, take your parents as an example."
"Unless your name is Google stop acting like you know everything."
"The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old." – Jean Kerr
"Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse." – Murphy’s Laws
"I haven’t even gone to bed yet and I already can’t wait to come home from work tomorrow."
"I’m sorry while you were talking I was trying to figure where the hell you got the idea I cared."
"I’m sorry. I was listening until, out of nowhere, I became distracted by this loud, obnoxious noise that turned out to be your voice."
"Family is a blessing. Just keep saying that when you are irritated by something a family member does or says."
"For the first time ever I was taking the family on the road. We stayed with my in-laws, which on life’s list of experiences ranks right below sitting in a tub full of scissors." – Jeff Foxworthy
"Mirrors can’t talk, lucky for you they can’t laugh either."
"In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep." – Albert Einstein
"I’m not saying I hate you, what I’m saying is that you are literally the Monday of my life."
"Life’s good, you should get one."
"Family: A social unit where the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space." – Evan Esar
"I tried to explain to my 4-year-old son that it's perfectly normal to accidentally poop your pants, but he's still making fun of me."
"I like older men because they've gotten used to life's disappointments. Which means they're ready for me."
"My son asked me what it's like to be married so I told him to leave me alone and when he did I asked him why he was ignoring me."
"One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the Universe which he or she did not thoroughly understand." – Kurt Vonnegut
"I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage." – Erma Bombeck
"I realized my family was funny because nobody ever wanted to leave our house." – Anthony Anderson
"If you see me smiling it's because I'm thinking of doing something evil or naughty. If you see me laughing it's because I've already done it."
"Writing a horror screenplay. It starts off with a ringing phone. The person answers, and it's their mum saying "I have a computer question."
"I’m not listening, but keep talking. I enjoy the way your voice makes my ears bleed."
Oh how I wish I knew this line before meeting some people *cough* on bored panda *cough*
"You can tell what was the best year of your father's life, because they seem to freeze that clothing style and ride it out." – Jerry Seinfeld
"The informality of family life is a blessed condition that allows us all to become our best while looking our worst." – Marge Kennedy
"I never forget a face, but in your case, I’ll be glad to make an exception."
"Just because the voices only talk to me doesn’t mean you should get all jealous. You’re just a little too crazy for their taste."
"It’s weird, marriage. It’s like this license that gives a person the legal right to control their spouse / their ‘other half." – Jess C. Scott
"To the mathematicians who thought of the idea of zero, thanks for nothing!"
Technically 0 isn't the same as nothing. Hence the need for null. Which to add some confusion is prenouced close to zero in many languages.
"Told my wife I wanted our kids every other weekend and she reminded me that we're married and live together so I'd have to see them every day."
"How is it that I always seem to buy the plants without the will to live?"
"The more beautiful the woman is who loves you, the easier it is to leave her with no hard feelings." – Murphy’s Laws
No matter how beautiful they are, someone, somewhere, is sick of their crap.
"A diary with no drawings of me in it? Where are the torrid fantasies? The romance covers?" – Cassandra Clare
"In a household of toddlers and pets, we discover this rule of thumb about happy families, that they are least two-thirds incontinent." – Robert Brault
"I’m sorry I hurt your feelings when I called you stupid. I really thought you already knew."
"When wearing a bikini, women reveal 90 % of their body... men are so polite they only look at the covered parts."
"My imaginary friend says that you need a therapist."
Most of these are things 12 year old me would have seen on a shirt on Pinterest and thought it was the funniest thing ever.
Some of these are just cynical or trying too hard to be funny. A few are gems though
Started as sarcastic comedy and quickly devolved into dad jokes and boomer humor. Cringetopia.
anyone who says "cringetopia" should automatically get punched in the face.
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I could eat alphabet soup and s**t better lyrics. - Johnny Mercer
I'm sure the downvote trolls will have a field day with me, but I'm not going to pretend these are witty or funny. Most of them are neither.
My all time favorite toast, which I feel might fit here: Here's wishing champagne for our true friends...and true pain for our sham friends
This was posted 14 hours ago... but there are comments from a week ago....
Yeah,right. I'm sure I could make a witty comeback with these antiquated quotes. I think I'll stick with the classic " f**k you ". Thanks anyway.
Most of these are things 12 year old me would have seen on a shirt on Pinterest and thought it was the funniest thing ever.
Some of these are just cynical or trying too hard to be funny. A few are gems though
Started as sarcastic comedy and quickly devolved into dad jokes and boomer humor. Cringetopia.
anyone who says "cringetopia" should automatically get punched in the face.
Load More Replies... I could eat alphabet soup and s**t better lyrics. - Johnny Mercer
I'm sure the downvote trolls will have a field day with me, but I'm not going to pretend these are witty or funny. Most of them are neither.
My all time favorite toast, which I feel might fit here: Here's wishing champagne for our true friends...and true pain for our sham friends
This was posted 14 hours ago... but there are comments from a week ago....
Yeah,right. I'm sure I could make a witty comeback with these antiquated quotes. I think I'll stick with the classic " f**k you ". Thanks anyway.
