Quotes about Sarcasm

Margo Channing: So many people know me. I wish I did. I wish someone would tell me about me.
Karen Richards: You're Margo, just Margo.
Margo Channing: And what is that, besides something spelled out in light bulbs, I mean - besides something called a temperament, which consists mostly of swooping about on a broomstick and screaming at the top of my voice? Infants behave the way I do, you know. They carry on and misbehave - they'd get drunk if they knew how - when they can't have what they want, when they feel unwanted or insecure or unloved.

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

Berger: We read five times that you were killed, in five different places.
Victor Laszlo: As you can see, it was true every single time.

- Paul Henreid (as Victor Laszlo) in Casablanca (1942)

Phil Green: Funny thing, that girl, Mr. Minify's niece suggested the series on antisemitism. Funny.
Mrs. Green: You don't say? Why, women will be thinking next, Phil.

- Anne Revere (as Mrs. Green) in Gentleman's Agreement (1947)

Klaus: Your legs are too thin, your hair is too red, you have lips like a cat. You're no good. You give me too much trouble.
Angel: Flattery rolls right off me.

- Gloria Grahame (as Angel) in The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)

Theo Weston: The music´s louder than usual. They´re probably celebrating their victory over Hackman.

- Geoffrey Bayldon (as Theo Weston) in To Sir, with Love (1967)

Auda abu Tayi: [as Lawrence sets out across the desert with Daoud and Faraj] You will cross Sinai?
T.E. Lawrence: Moses did!
Auda abu Tayi: And you will take the children?
T.E. Lawrence: Moses did!

- Peter O'Toole (as T.E. Lawrence) in Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

Don Birnam: I'm not a drinker;I'm a drunk.

- Ray Milland (as Don Birnam) in The Lost Weekend (1945)

Professor Henry Higgins: Shall we ask this baggage to sit down or shall we just throw her out of the window?

- Rex Harrison (as Professor Henry Higgins) in My Fair Lady (1964)

Herr Zeller: Perhaps those who would warn you that the Anschluss is coming - and it is coming, Captain - perhaps they would get further with you by setting their words to music.
Captain von Trapp: If the Nazis take over Austria, I have no doubt, Herr Zeller, that you will be the entire trumpet section.
Herr Zeller: You flatter me, Captain.
Captain von Trapp: Oh, how clumsy of me - I meant to accuse you.

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

Miss Gulch: [stopping bicycle and getting off] Gale?
Uncle Henry Gale: Well, howdy, Miss Gulch.
Miss Gulch: [comes into the Gales' yard] I want to see you and your wife right away about Dorothy!
Uncle Henry Gale: Dorothy? Well, what has Dorothy done?
Miss Gulch: What she's done? I'm all but lame from the bite on my leg!
Uncle Henry Gale: Oh! You mean she bit you?
Miss Gulch: No, her dog!
Uncle Henry Gale: Oh, she bit her dog, eh?
[Uncle Henry tries to shut the gate, but it hits her on the backside]
Miss Gulch: [exasperated] No!

- Margaret Hamilton (as Miss Gulch / The Wicked Witch of the West) in The Wizard of Oz (1939)