Best Caustic Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Through all the realms of Non-sense, absolute”

“I'm very antischedule. Except for board meetings, I don't really schedule things or keep a calendar. I think appointments are caustic to creativity.”

Thinking Creativity Meetings Boards Schedules Calendars Appointments Caustic Board Meetings

Author:David Karp

“I always thought that Seth [Rogen] was a fun, caustic, bombastic, sweet, underdog-type of person that I would root for the way you used to root for Bill Murray or John Candy in "Stripes." Seth had something that very few people you encounter have: he had a writer's mind and he had his own comic point of view.”

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Author:Judd Apatow

“A raised eyebrow, an inflection of the voice, a caustic remark dropped in the middle of a broadcast can raise doubts in a million minds about the veracity of a public official or the wisdom of a governmental policy.”

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Author:Spiro T. Agnew

“It was an axiom of "containment" that no part of the known world could be considered neutral. "Neutralism" was among the Cold Warriors' gravest curse words, applied with caustic hostility to India and even France. Those who were not with were against, subjected to intense economic and ideological and sometimes military pressure to fall into line.”

Source: For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports

“Too caustic? To hell with the costs, we'll make the picture anyway.”

Hell Cost Caustic

Author:Samuel Goldwyn

“If it's a woman it's caustic, if it's a man it's authority, If it's a woman it's too pushy, if it's a man it's aggressive in the best sense of the word.”

Ifs Men Literature Authority Aggressive Pushy Caustic

Author:Barbara Walters

“My childhood memories seem to be wreathed in the twin and far from harmonious olfactory sensations of patchouli oil and caustic soda.”

Seems Memories Childhood Oil Sensations Twins Harmonious Childhood Memories Soda Caustic Patchouli

Author:Hamish Bowles

“English audiences of working people are like an instrument that responds to the player. Thought ripples up and down them, and if in some heart the speaker strikes a dissonance there is a swift answer. Always the voice speaks from gallery or pit, the terrible voice which detaches itself in every English crowd, full of caustic wit, full of irony or, maybe, approval.”

“The bitter attacks I faced were far worse than any fighter I ever faced in the ring. The caustic remarks, the threats to injure me, the shots at my character-fighting those were my toughest battle.”

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Author:Jack Johnson

“I found my friends very amusing the first time because they are funny and amusing. They really are because they're people who've got everything. They're sort of like camp caricatures of what you expect an aristocrat should be: vicious, rude, caustic unpleasantries.”

People Should Firsts Found My Friends First Time Camps Rude Vicious Amusing Caricatures Caustic

Author:Duncan Roy

“Expressions of sharp and even violent criticism of religion and the church have been welcomed, for they usually imply sincerity of thought. If caustic criticism of religious institutions and practices is irreligious, then Amos, Isaiah, and Jesus were very irreligious men. In fact, that is exactly what many of their contemporaries took them to be.”

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Author:Halford Luccock

“"Masters of War" [of Bob Dylan] wasn't peacenik, anti-war stuff. With its minor key and uncompromising final lines ("And I hope that you die/And your death'll come soon/ I will follow your casket/ In the pale afternoon...") this was a previously unknown hybrid of caustic political commentary and punk rock, which itself wouldn't be invented for another decade or so.”

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Author:Jay Michaelson

“I mean, sometimes we do do that, The National Anthem was a caustic satire and sometimes that's the way to go with the story rather than me being particularly misanthropic.”

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Author:Charlie Brooker

“[Wilson] has this strange inability to censor himself, and he'll say these things that are sometimes quite caustic or end up creating some kind of violent reaction, you know. But, you know, I admire that.”

Knows Kind Ends Sometimes Strange Creating Violent Reactions Admire Inability Wilson Caustic

Author:Woody Harrelson

“There was once a caustic comment from someone suggesting I was breeding a new race. Fans from different countries have married, amazing things like that. I've been to some of the weddings. I went to one here the other day, a pagan ceremony.”

Different Country Race Fans Married Comment Ceremony Pagan Amazing Things Breeding Suggesting Different Countries Caustic

Author:Terry Pratchett

“All right. Tell me what I'm looking at." From the improvised Rolling Stones T-shirt bag tied to my sash, Bob the Skull said, in his most caustic voice, "A giant pair of cartoon lips." I muttered a curse and fumbled with the shirt until one of the skull's glowing orange eye sockets was visible. A big goofy magic nerd!" Bob said.”

Said Bigs Eye Voice Magic Stones Lips Curse Shirts Giants Visible Bags Pairs Bob Tied Rolling Cartoon Orange Nerd T Shirt Skulls Glowing Rolling Stones Goofy Dresden Caustic

Author:Jim Butcher

“You used to say. "Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness." Madness doubled is marriage I added when the caustic was cool, not intending to produce a golden rule.”

Used Desire Produce And Love Madness Golden Golden Rule Caustic

Book:The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos

Source: The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos

“You can do all manner of underhanded nice things when you have a caustic reputation.”

Can Do Nice Reputation Nice Things Caustic

Book:The Book Thief: 10th Anniversary Edition

Source: The Book Thief: 10th Anniversary Edition

“Despite trials, worldly confusion, and caustic voices, we can trust in the Lord and go forward with happy hearts, knowing that with every challenge or problem, there's the strength to go on. Why? Because we know His promises are real, that He does know us by name and has a plan for each of us. He will help us learn what it is and give us joy in doing it.”

Knows Giving Heart Doe Real Helping Problem Joy Names Voice Challenges Lord Knowing Plans Goes On Promise Adversity Trials Confusion Despite Worldly Caustic Trust In The Lord Happy Heart

Author:Elaine L. Jack

“Debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust and wide-open and that...may well include vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public officials.”

Should Wells May Sometimes Government Issues Wide Debate Officials Censorship Free Speech Freedom Of Speech Robust Public Officials Vehement Caustic

Author:William J. Brennan

“If it's a woman, it's caustic; if it's a man, it's authoritative.”

Ifs Men Women Caustic

Author:Barbara Walters

“The cynical, caustic, acid-tongued New York drama critic Addison De Witt introduces his protege/date of the moment, a bimbo date and so-called actress named Miss Casswell (Marilyn Monroe) in another very famous line: "Miss Casswell is an actress, a graduate of the Copacabana School of Dramatic Art."”

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Author:George Sanders

“I think appointments are caustic to creativity.”

Thinking Creativity Appointments Caustic

Author:David Karp

“My thoughts are crabbed and sallow, My tears like vinegar, Or the bitter blinking yellow Of an acetic star. Tonight the caustic wind, love, Gossips late and soon, And I wear the wry-faced pucker of The sour lemon moon. While like an early summer plum, Puny, green, and tart, Droops upon its wizened stem My lean, unripened heart.”

Heart Stars Tears Wind Broken Moon Late Summer Green Bitter Tonight Broken Heart Gossip Yellow Stem My Thoughts Sour Lemons Heart Broke Vinegar Plums Tarts Wry Caustic

Book:Collected Poems

Source: Collected Poems

“Philosophy exists in profoundest opposition to rhetoric, which is speaking for the sake of producing or controlling some effect in others' perceptions. Philosophy is about the caustic or cauterizing effect of the truth, not the currying of sensibilities.”

Philosophy Truth Effects Perception Sake Opposition Rhetoric Sensibility Caustic

Author:Kenny Smith

“Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.”

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Book:Felix Holt, The Radical: Top Novelist Focus

Source: Felix Holt, The Radical: Top Novelist Focus

“How damaging is a habit that permits faultfinding, character assassination, and the sharing of malicious rumors! Gossip and caustic comments often create chains of contention.”

Character Habit Chains Gossip Comment Permit Rumor Assassination Contention Malicious Chained Caustic Character Assassination

Book:Be of Good Cheer

Source: Be of Good Cheer

“The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.”

World Should Writing Littles Seems Nature Sin Spring Satire Satirist Caustic

Book:An Autobiography: and Other Writings

Source: An Autobiography: and Other Writings

“I am acquainted with a wife and mother who is chained securely at the present time to a life-style of murmuring and criticism. She is the first to point out faults in her husband or to repeat neighborhood gossip. How damaging is a habit that permits fault-finding, character assassination, and the sharing of malicious rumors! Gossip and caustic comments often create chains of contention. These chains may appear to be very small, but what misery and woe they can cause!”

Source: Be of Good Cheer

“I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.”

Sense Of Humor Caustic

Author:Vera Farmiga

“We've gotten to the point now where Republicans and Democrats have nothing in common besides being members of the 'caustic caucus,' and we can't get anything done.”

Done Common Republican Members Democrat Being Me Caucus Caustic

Author:Emanuel Cleaver

“The most callous, stupid things were done just because regulations required them...It was not until 1983, for example, that U.S. federal agencies stated that substances known to be caustic irritants such as lye, ammonia, and oven cleaners, did not need to be tested on the eyes of conscious rabbits.”

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Author:Peter Singer