“Sarcasm is the language of the devil, for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it” — Thomas Carlyle (Scottish Historian and Essayist, leading figure in the Victorian era. 1795-1881)
“A sarcastic person has a superiority complex that can be cured only by the honesty of humility.” — Lawrence G. Lovasik (Slovak Priest, b.1913)
“Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.” — Samuel Butler
“If it weren’t for sarcasm, my life would sound pathetic.” — Scott Adams (Dilbert)
“Sarcasm is the means by which we hide our hurt feelings from ourselves.” — C.G. Jung
“At the best, sarcasms, bitter irony, scathing wit, are a sort of sword-play of the mind. You pink your adversary, and he is forthwith dead; and then you deserve to be hung for it.” — Christian Nestell Bovee