Cutting Remarks Quotes

Ridicule often cuts the knot, where severity fails.

Sarcasm is a Manchester trait.

I have some sarcastic sides of me.

'Liquid Swords' just represents a sharp tongue, sharp words.

There are words which cut like steel.

Know that diamonds and roses are as uncomfortable when they tumble from one's lips as toads and frogs: colder, too, and sharper, and they cut.

I don't talk trash often, but when I do, I go for the jugular.

My father was a master of the cutting insult.

I'm keeping my acerbic wit completely fueled.

Humor can be an incredible lacerating and effective weapon. And that is the way I use it.

Reed Scott is really good at coming up with insults.

If we did not know all His retorts by heart, if we had not taken the sting out of them by incessant repetition in the accents of the pulpit, and if we had not somehow got it into our heads that brains were rather reprehnsible, we should reckon Him among the greatest wits of all time. Nobody else, in three brief years, has achieved such an output of epigram.

She speaks poniards, and every word stabs.

What I don't like is snark for snark's sake. If you are going to make fun of me, at least be witty while doing it.

Beware of biting jests; the more truth they carry with them, the greater wounds they give, the greater smarts they cause, and the greater scars they leave behind them.

I can be accused of being acerbic as a critic and writer.

Wit goes for the jugular, not the jocular, and it's the opposite of football; instead of building character, it tears it down.

At the best, sarcasms, bitter irony, scathing wit, are a sort of swordplay of the mind. You pink your adversary, and he is forthwith dead; and then you deserve to be hung for it.

I am pretty sarcastic and pretty dry.

My natural-born sarcasm, when it's unimpeded, can be a bit overbearing at times and I'm the first to admit that.