Quotes by Sarcasm Without sarcasm I sink into chaos. Antonin Artaud chaossarcasm Art must always remain earnest... Art must be serious, no sarcasm, comedy. One does not laugh at a loved one. Arshile Gorky sarcasmlaughingart The unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it has ceased to deserve the name. Arthur Conan Doyle sarcasmhumorousnames There seems to me to be absolutely no limit to the inanity and credulity of the human race. Homo Sapiens! Homo idioticus! Arthur Conan Doyle sarcasmhumorousrace Well, I'm a bacteriologist, you know. I live in a nine-hundred-diameter microscope. I can hardly claim to take serious notice of anything that I can see with my naked eye. Arthur Conan Doyle sarcasmhumorouseye I have my own views about Nature's methods, though I feel that it is rather like a beetle giving his Arthur Conan Doyle sarcasmhumorousnature Brothers are a blessing for one thing. There is no possibility of any young lady getting unreasonably conceited if she be endowed with them. Arthur Conan Doyle sarcasmhumorousbrother The less experienced a doctor is, the higher are his notions of professional dignity . . . Arthur Conan Doyle doctorssarcasmhumorous I trust that age doth not wither nor custom stale my infinite variety. Arthur Conan Doyle sarcasmhumorousage I feel that there is reason lurking in you somewhere, so we will patiently grope round for it. Arthur Conan Doyle sarcasmhumorousreason An absence of antecedents and of relatives is sometimes an aid rather than an impediment to social advancement . . . Arthur Conan Doyle advancementsarcasmhumorous Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner. You have attempted to tinge it with romanticism, which produces much the same effect as if you worked a love-story or an elopement into the fifth proposition of Euclid. Arthur Conan Doyle sarcasmhumorousscience "Dr. Munro, sir," said he, "I am a walking museum. You could fit what ISN'T the matter with me on to the back of a -- visiting card. If there's any complaint you want to make a special study of, just you come to me, sir, and see what I can do for you. It's not every one that can say that he has had cholera three times, and cured himself by living on red pepper and brandy." Arthur Conan Doyle sarcasmhumorousmuseums "There are one or two elementary rules to be observed in the way of handling patients," he remarked, seating himself on the table and swinging his legs. "The most obvious is that you must never let them see that you want them. It should be pure condescension on your part seeing them at all; and the more difficulties you throw in the way of it, the more they think of it. Break your patients in early, and keep them well to heel." Arthur Conan Doyle sarcasmhumorousthinking The sky was of the deepest blue, with a few white, fleecy clouds drifting lazily across it, and the air was filled with the low drone of insects or with a sudden sharper note as bee or bluefly shot past with its quivering, long-drawn hum, like an insect tuning-fork. Arthur Conan Doyle sarcasmhumorouspast He had never seen a woman doctor before, and his whole conservative soul rose up in revolt at the idea. He could not recall any biblical injunction that the man should remain ever the doctor and the woman the nurse, and yet he felt as if a blasphemy had been committed. Arthur Conan Doyle sarcasmbiblicalhumorous Love has been taken away from the poets, and has been brought within the domain of true science. It may prove to be one of the great cosmic elementary forces. When the atom of hydrogen draws the atom of chlorine towards it to form the perfected molecule of hydrochloric acid, the force which it exerts may be intrinsically similar to that which draws me to you. Attraction and repulsion appear to be the primary forces. This is attraction. Arthur Conan Doyle sarcasmhumoroustaken I am engaged in answering that Italian buffoon, Mazotti, whose views upon the larval development of the tropical termites have excited my derision and contempt . . . Arthur Conan Doyle sarcasmitalianhumorous "I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always means an affaire de coeur." Arthur Conan Doyle sarcasmhumorousmean And yet the motives of women are so inscrutable. You remember the woman at Margate whom I suspected for the same reason. No powder on her nose - that proved to be the correct solution. How can you build on such a quicksand? Their most trivial action may mean volumes, or their most extraordinary conduct may depend upon a hairpin or a curling tongs. Arthur Conan Doyle sarcasmhumorousmean«1234567891011»
