Subtle Sarcasm Quotes

..her smile, which was her pretty feature, was never so pretty as when her sprightly phrase had a scratch lurking in it.

It's great, I guess, when your paintings are hanging up in a museum.

I think Douglas [Adams] is writing with an eye to irony for adults at the same time as entertaining children.

You either choose this method of passing the evening because you are in each other's confidence, and have secret affairs to discuss, or because you are conscious that your figures appear to the greatest advantage in walking;— if the first, I should be completely in your way, and if the second, I can admire you much better as I sit by the fire.

That's the difference between irony and sarcasm. Irony can be spontaneous, while sarcasm requires volition. You have to create sarcasm.

A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults.

The people I worked with were supportive, and I'm flattered that you would call what I did 'acting.'

Irony - The modern mode: either the devil’s mark or the snorkel of sanity.

A mouth of no distinction but well practiced, before I entered my teens, in irony. For what is irony but the repository of hurt? And what is hurt but the repository of hope?