Quotes about Sarcasm

Nick Arden: I had a pretty good ear when I was a kid.
Ellen Wagstaff Arden aka Eve: Why Nicholas, you could never carry a tune. Still can't.
Bianca Bates: I like my husband's voice.
Ellen Wagstaff Arden aka Eve: Don't care very much about music, huh?

- Irene Dunne (as Ellen Arden) in My Favorite Wife (1940)

Ellen Wagstaff Arden: Oh, isn't that lovely! Isn't that a lovely thing! Engagement present?
Bianca Bates: Yes.
Ellen Wagstaff Arden: Umhum, I used to have one exactly like it. Exactly!

- Irene Dunne (as Ellen Arden) in My Favorite Wife (1940)

Ellen Wagstaff Arden: You sure you don't love her?
Nick Arden: The moment I saw you downstairs, I knew...
Ellen Wagstaff Arden: Oh, go on, I bet you say that to all your wives.

- Irene Dunne (as Ellen Arden) in My Favorite Wife (1940)

Susan Vance: You've just had a bad day, that's all.
David Huxley: Oh, well that's a masterpiece of understatement.

- Cary Grant (as Dr. David Huxley) in Bringing up Baby (1938)

Peter Warne: I want to see what love looks like when it's triumphant. I haven't had a good laugh in a week.

- Clark Gable (as Peter Warne) in It Happened One Night (1934)

Prince John: Ho, varlets, bring Sir Robin food! Such insolence must support a healthy appetite!

- Claude Rains (as Prince John) in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)

Robin Hood: [to Gisbourne during duel] Did I upset your plans?

- Errol Flynn (as Robin Hood) in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)

[Carter and Dingle are reading a "Dick Tracy" comic strip]
Constance 'Connie' Milligan: Is that the best you can do with your time?
Joe Carter: Mmm. Got to keep up with what's going on.
Benjamin Dingle: I missed two Sundays with "Superman" once, and I've never felt right since.
Constance 'Connie' Milligan: Seems to me you might read something more beneficial.
Joe Carter: Like what?
Constance 'Connie' Milligan: Like the editorials, for instance, or the columns. All well-informed people read the columnists.
Benjamin Dingle: Such as Mr. Pendergast, I suppose.
Constance 'Connie' Milligan: You're right, I suppose. Mr. Pendergast always reads the columnists.
Joe Carter: Are they funny?
Benjamin Dingle: Sometimes, but no pictures.

- Charles Coburn (as Benjamin Dingle) in The More the Merrier (1943)

Ellie Andrews: Your ego is absolutely colossal.
Peter Warne: Yeah, yeah, not bad, how's yours?
[Shuts and locks the door]
Ellie Andrews: You know, compared to you, my friend Shapeley's an amateur. Just whatever gave you any idea I'd stand for this?
Peter Warne: Say now, wait a minute. Let's get this straightened out right now. If you're nursing any silly notion that I'm interested in you, forget it. You're just a headline to me.
Ellie Andrews: A headline? You're not a newspaper man are you?
Peter Warne: Chalk up one for your side.

- Clark Gable (as Peter Warne) in It Happened One Night (1934)

Oscar Shapeley: What's a matter sister? You ain't sayin' much.
Ellie Andrews: It seems to me you're doing excellently without any assistance.

- Claudette Colbert (as Ellie) in It Happened One Night (1934)