Ann Coulter Quotes

A joke is a joke. There's an expression - I don't know if you have it - that's 'adding insult to injury.'

You can laugh at somebody because they are innocent, and because they are naive or they are about to walk into a wall, but if somebody's giving you stuff, if somebody's talking, giving you their take on things, what makes you laugh, generally speaking, is going to be somebody who is telling it in an angry way.

At this point, we've ripped on everyone.

There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature.

I think to simply make fun of something isn't particularly interesting. I try to not just do a parody of something or belittle something or disparage something.

Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature.

You had to learn at a certain age what sarcasm is, you know?

Comedy always works best when it is mean-spirited.

Humor is hostility.

Ridicule is man's most potent weapon.

I've done pretty well as a professional fed-up. The tools of my trade so far have been irony, tongue-in-cheek mockery, and supercilious contempt, but these are highly civilized weapons designed for 18th-century French salons.

I knew how to come up with jokes at someone's expense really fast.

Comedy is based partly on mean-spiritedness.

I can be sarcastic.

I'm not a big fan of comedy roasts because most of the time I find them to be really mean, but once in a while, you'll hear something perfectly worded and well-crafted.

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.

My success comes in making fun of whatever you're doing. That's my way.

Satire is focused bitterness.

Jokes are grievances.

Colombian humor is very black, very sarcastic.

Satire is fascinating stuff. It's deadly serious, and when politics begin to break down, there is a drift towards satire, because it's the only thing that makes any sense.

The key to humor is often self-loathing or sarcasm. In a sense, that's how self-loathing is made palatable.

Wit is the most rascally, contemptible, beggarly thing on the face of the earth.

Even when I was in high school and the Navy, I was the guy who could rip somebody, and they'd laugh at it.

Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.