Being sarcastic Quote by Charlie Brooker

Here's the thing about earnestness. Our culture discounts it; but people are yearning for it.

— Jeffrey Zaslow

Earnestness and sincerity are synonymous.

— Corita Kent

I'm a big fan of saying the thing that is not necessarily sincere or earnest, but definitely honest.

— Josh Gondelman

The presence of irony does not necessarily mean that the earnestness is excluded. Only assistant professors assume that.

— Soren Kierkegaard

The tone of good conversation is brilliant and natural; it is neither tedious nor frivolous; it is instructive without pedantry, gay without tumultuousness, polished…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“A good conversation is the only human equivalent: the realizing that decent points are being made and understood, that irony is in play, and…

— Christopher Hitchens

People always tell me that everything I say sounds sarcastic, even when I'm trying to have a serious conversation.

— Richard Bacon

“The colossal misunderstanding of our time is the assumption that insight will work with people who are unmotivated to change. Communication does not depend…

— Edwin H. Friedman

Wit and humor seem to always factor into this - there's a tongue-in-cheek tone you get when you take on a formalist story -…

— Alexander Weinstein

Among the arts of conversation no one pleases more than mutual deference or civility, which leads us to resign our own inclinations to those…

— David Hume

It's fun to be sarcastic, but now I'm able to express myself in a way that's much more sincere.

— Christina Ricci

There are people who balk at small civilities on account of their manifest insincerity. ... It is better and more logical to accept all…

— Agnes Repplier