Roses," she thought sardonically, "All trash, m’dear.

With the Stone Roses, I always thought we'd be successful because we had some great songs.

— Ian Brown

“Every woman, even the most respectable, had roses blooming under glass; lips cut with a knife; curls of Indian ink; there was design, art,…

— Virginia Woolf

God was feeling sardonic the day He created the Universe. So it's rather up to at least one man every few centuries to pop…

— L. Ron Hubbard

“His mouth has a story to tell, I’m certain of it. How can it be amused and sardonic, hard and inviting, all at the…

— Primula Bond

I just play to progressive audiences. You know, if they're watching Discovery Channel, History Channel, that kind of thing, "Monty Python" have already laid…

— Eddie Izzard

Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent. It depends in part upon the myth-making imagination of humankind. The person who experiences greatness…

— Frank Herbert

“I watched him, sardonic, cynical. A great poet, truly, yet unkind. The gifts of our nature seem not to modify the manner of our…

— Jeanette Winterson

Nazi Literature in the Americas, a wicked invented encyclopedia of imaginary fascist writers and literary tastemakers, is Bolaño playing with sharp, twisting knives. As…

— Stacey D'Erasmo

If I have any claim to originality, I do it by investing my own personality into it, so it's coming from a slightly more…

— James Hunter

“Your laugh is of the sardonic kind.”

— Caius Sempronius Gracchus

“Don't worry about it. If I'm wrong, Security is monitoring me every second." "That just means they'll know who to charge with your murder,"…

— Mike Resnick

Freud, Jung thought, had been a great discoverer of facts about the mind, but far too inclined to leave the solid ground of "critical…

— Peter Gay

To be sane, he held, was either to be sedated by melancholy or activated by hysteria, two responses which were 'always and equally warranted…

— Thomas Ligotti

I see contemporary violence as a kind of sardonic response to the promise of consumer fulfilment in America.

— Don DeLillo

The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in.

— Frank Herbert