“(Television) Humor will never be the same. Sarcasm, irony, and cynicism will disappear. (Sylvia) Right. I'm having mine surgically removed. (Rita) Ma, cut it out!”
Source: Sylvia cartoon strip, p. 97
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“(Sylvia to her daughter) Rita, your body may be a temple. Mine is a Chevy Vega.”
Source: Sylvia cartoon strip, p.105
Source: Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
“Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument.”
As quoted in Dictionary of American Maxims (1955) by David George Plotkin
As quoted in Lifetime Speaker's Encyclopedia (1962) edited by Jacob Morton Braude, p. 50.
Variant: Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.
“(Television) Spray and wash gets out what America gets into. (Sylvia) Send some to El Salvador.”
Source: Sylvia cartoon strip, p. 39
“There is no me. I do not exist … There used to be a me, but I had it surgically removed.”
As "Himself" in The Muppet Show, episode # 2.19 (6 December 1977); also quoted in "Sellers Strikes Again"by Richard Schickel in TIME magazine (3 March 1980) http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,950308,00.html?iid=chix-sphere
Variants:
There used to be a me behind the mask, but I had it surgically removed.
As quoted in Halliwell's Filmgoer's Companion (1988) by Leslie Halliwell, p. 622