Quotes about Sarcasm

Karen Holmes: You certainly chose a lovely spot for our meeting. I've had three chances to be picked up in the last five minutes.

- Deborah Kerr (as Karen Holmes) in From Here to Eternity (1953)

Honore Lachaille: Did she send a note?
Gaston Lachaille: Obviously.
Honore Lachaille: Oh, good, good! Did you have to change the arrangements?
Gaston Lachaille: Don't be vulgar.
Honore Lachaille: Ah, well, she's a wonderful girl, Gigi. So young, so fresh, so vulgar. She's not sophisticated like most other woman are, but then what do sophisticated women have to offer? Nothing! They are boring, they have no surprises! But a liaison with someone like Gigi can last for months!
Gaston Lachaille: Good night. Good night!

- Louis Jourdan (as Gaston Lachaille) in Gigi (1958)

Captain von Trapp: It's the dress. You'll have to put on another one before you meet the children.
Maria: But I don't have another one. When we entered the abbey our worldly clothes were given to the poor.
Captain von Trapp: What about this one?
Maria: The poor didn't want this one.

- Julie Andrews (as Maria) in The Sound of Music (1965)

Max: I hope you appreciate the sacrifice I'm making.
Captain von Trapp: You have no choice.
Max: I know... That's why I'm making it.

- Richard Haydn (as Max Detweiler) in The Sound of Music (1965)

Herr Zeller: I've not asked you where you and your family are going. Nor have you asked me why I am here.
Captain von Trapp: Well, apparently, we're both suffering from a deplorable lack of curiosity.

- Christopher Plummer (as Captain Von Trapp) in The Sound of Music (1965)

The Baroness: Why didn't you tell me?
Max: What?
The Baroness: To bring along my harmonica.

- Eleanor Parker (as The Baroness) in The Sound of Music (1965)

George Bailey: Well, maybe I left the car up at Martini's. Well, come on, Gabriel.
Clarence: Clarence!
George Bailey: Clarence. Right... Clarence.

- James Stewart (as George Bailey) in It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

[Norma threatens suicide again]
Joe Gillis: Oh, wake up, Norma, you'd be killing yourself to an empty house. The audience left twenty years ago.

- William Holden (as Joe Gillis) in Sunset Boulevard (1950)

Mother: Just use your own judgment.
Daughter: You tell me where to go.
Harold: [muttering] I'd like to tell you both where to go.

- W.C. Fields (as Harold Bissonette) in It's a Gift (1934)

Agnes Prescott: Now there's a guy who never goes out of a girl's mind. He just stays there... like a heavy meal.

- Veda Ann Borg (as Agnes Prescott) in The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947)