Quotes about Sarcasm

Sugar: I met one of them.
Josephine: One of whom?
Sugar: Shell Oil Junior. He's got millions, he's got glasses, he's got a yacht!
Josephine: You don't say.
Daphne: He's not only got a yacht, he's got a bicycle!

- Jack Lemmon (as Jerry/Daphne) in Some Like It Hot (1959)

Scarlett: You're a conceited, black heated vulture and I don't know I let you come in and see me.
Rhett Butler: I'll tell you why, Scarlett. The war can't last much longer.
Scarlett: Really, Rhett. Why?
Rhett Butler: There's a little battle going on right now.

- Clark Gable (as Rhett Butler) in Gone with the Wind (1939)

Longfellow Deeds: When the servant comes in, Mr. Hallor, I'm going to ask him to show you to the door. Many people don't know where it is.

- Gary Cooper (as Longfellow Deeds) in Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)

Matt Beemish: I'm the court psychiatrist.
Richard Nugent: Come back in an hour. I'll be crazy by then.

- Cary Grant (as Dick) in The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947)

Waiter at Tick Tock Club:
[to Nugent after he has been yelled at, insulted, slapped, had champagne tossed in his face and been stuck with the check]
Can I get you anything else, sir?
Richard Nugent: For instance?

- Cary Grant (as Dick) in The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947)

Mr. Hyde: Perhaps you prefer a gentleman. One of those fine-mannered and honorable gentlemen. Those panting hypocrites who like your legs but talk about your garters.

- Fredric March (as Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Hyde) in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931)

Georgia: If you work for the CIA, how come you hang around with dentists?
Harvey Greenfield: He's installing a miniature radio transmitor in my wisdom tooth.

- Jack Weston (as Harvey Greenfield) in Cactus Flower (1969)

Spats Colombo: Hello, copper. What brings you to Miami?
Mulligan: Heard you "opera lovers" were having a convention, so I thought I'd better be around in case anybody decided to sing.

- Pat O'Brien (as Det. Mulligan) in Some Like It Hot (1959)

Daphne: [in the berth, with the lady band members passing food around and a corkscrew's been brought] Girls, keep it down! You'll wake up the neighbours downstairs, now Josephine... WATCH THAT CORKSCREW!

- Jack Lemmon (as Jerry/Daphne) in Some Like It Hot (1959)

Lloyd Richards: What makes you think either Miller or Sherwood would stand for the nonsense I take from you? You'd better stick to Beaumont and Fletcher! They've been dead for three hundred years!
Margo Channing: ALL playwrights should be dead for three hundred years!

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