Quotes about Sarcasm

Eve Kendall: Patience is a virtue.
Roger Thornhill: So is breathing.

- Cary Grant (as Roger O. Thornhill) in North by Northwest (1959)

Dale Tremont: I dropped up from the room below where I've been trying to get some sleep!
Jerry Travers: Oh, I'm sorry! I didn't realize I was disturbing you. You see, every once in a while I suddenly find myself... dancing.
Dale Tremont: Oh, I suppose it's some kind of an affliction.

- Ginger Rogers (as Dale Tremont) in Top Hat (1935)

Bill Sampson: Have you no human consideration?
Margo Channing: Show me a human, and I might have!

- Bette Davis (as Margo) in All About Eve (1950)

Addison DeWitt: Too bad, we're gonna miss the third act. They're gonna play it offstage.

- George Sanders (as Addison DeWitt) in All About Eve (1950)

Margo Channing: Nice speech, Eve. But I wouldn't worry too much about your heart. You can always put that award where your heart ought to be.

- Bette Davis (as Margo) in All About Eve (1950)

Margo Channing: You bought the new girdles a size smaller, I can feel it.
Birdie: Something maybe grew a size larger.
Margo Channing: When we get home you're going to get into one of those girdles and act for two and a half hours.
Birdie: I couldn't get into the girdle in two and a half hours.

- Thelma Ritter (as Birdie) in All About Eve (1950)

Captain Renault: Rick, there are many exit visas sold in this café, but we know that you've never sold one. That is the reason we permit you to remain open.
Rick: Oh? I thought it was because I let you win at roulette.
Captain Renault: That is another reason.

- Claude Rains (as Captain Louis Renault) in Casablanca (1942)

Captain Renault: Ricky, I'm going to miss you. Apparently you're the only one in Casablanca with less scruples than I.

- Claude Rains (as Captain Louis Renault) in Casablanca (1942)

Ugarte: Too bad about those two German couriers, wasn't it?
Rick: They got a lucky break. Yesterday they were just two German clerks. Today they're the "Honored Dead".
Ugarte: You are a very cynical person, Rick, if you'll forgive me for saying so.
Rick: [shortly] I forgive you.

- Humphrey Bogart (as Rick Blaine) in Casablanca (1942)

Captain Renault: And what in heaven's name brought you to Casablanca?
Rick: My health. I came to Casablanca for the waters.
Captain Renault: Waters? What waters? We're in the desert.
Rick: I was misinformed.

- Humphrey Bogart (as Rick Blaine) in Casablanca (1942)