“Sarcasm is when you tell someone the truth by lying on purpose.”
Chuck Klosterman book Downtown Owl
Source: Downtown Owl
Original: Quando, dopo aver ascoltato la verità, qualcuno si arrabbia e si offende, significa che mentiva e che ne era cosciente.
Source: prevale.net
“Sarcasm is when you tell someone the truth by lying on purpose.”
Chuck Klosterman book Downtown Owl
Source: Downtown Owl
Khalid Abdul Muhammad (1948–2001) American activist
Louis Farrakhan, dismissing Khalid from his Nation of Islam post. See New York Times (4 February 1994) "Farrakhan Repudiates Speech For Tone, Not Anti-Semitism"
About Khalid
“No one forgets the truth; they just get better at lying.”
Richard Yates book Revolutionary Road
Source: Revolutionary Road
“A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.”
Wilson Mizner (1876–1933) American writer
Quoted by Stuart B. McIver, Dreamers, Schemers and Scalawags, Pineapple Press, Sarasota, Florida, 1994. ISBN 1-56164-034-4.
Epigrams
“When lying to someone, look him straight in the eye.”
Mason Cooley (1927–2002) American academic
City Aphorisms, Ninth Selection (1992)
Nigel Cumberland (1967) British author and leadership coach
Your Job-Hunt Ltd – Advice from an Award-Winning Asian Headhunter (2003), Successful Recruitment in a Week (2012) https://books.google.ae/books?idp24GkAsgjGEC&printsecfrontcover&dqnigel+cumberland&hlen&saX&ved0ahUKEwjF75Xw0IHNAhULLcAKHazACBMQ6AEIGjAA#vonepage&qnigel%20cumberland&ffalse, 100 Things Successful People Do: Little Exercises for Successful Living (2016) https://books.google.ae/books?idnu0lCwAAQBAJ&dqnigel+cumberland&hlen&saX&ved0ahUKEwjF75Xw0IHNAhULLcAKHazACBMQ6AEIMjAE
“After All I've Done For you, you're lying. Wouldn't it be nice to tell the truth?”
Jon Bon Jovi (1962) American singer and musician
Shot Through The Heart
Music, Bon Jovi (1984)