I scrupulously hide every legitimate reason for people to hate me, and it turns out they don’t need legitimate reasons. Heaven has fashioned a knife of irony to stab me with.

So we came to say hello. To the world’s grouchiest person. Because that’s such fun.

Has all the trappings of a mystery novel, doesn’t it?

Political convictions then were of the utmost importance, so intensely felt that it was difficult even for well-balanced and temperate men to think of the opposition party without bitterness. To the rank and file of...

monotony kills the heart. Ironically, monotony is what keeps the heart working.

[sic] his reaction was a sign of civilization. Nobody reaches for a gun anymore, just for his lawyer.

The 21st chapter gives the novel the quality of genuine fiction, an art founded on the principle that human beings change. —– “A Clockwork Orange Resucked” intro to first full American version 1986

Pedersen was always wooing her. Sometimes he was gracious and kind, but at other times when his failure wearied him he would be cruel and sardonic, with a suggestive tongue whose vice would have scourged...

Now, as I understand it, the bards were feared. They were respected, but more than that they were feared. If you were just some magician, if you’d pissed off some witch, then what’s she gonna...

Your favorite virtue? An appreciation for irony.

Corporate irony not only ridicules the thing it is selling but the very act of selling it. In the process it disarms critics by making anyone who goes against the flow of commerce seem clueless.

Luckily, even as a young man not yet become himself, John Bridgens had two things besides indecision that kept him from self-destruction – books and a sense of irony.

So, like I said, these are a bunch of really sweet guys, but you wouldn’t want to share a Galaxy with them, not if they’re just gonna keep at it, not if they’re not gonna...

Voltaire expected that within fifty years of his lifetime there would not be one Bible in the world. His house is now a distribution centre for Bibles in many languages.

That will do extremely well, child. You have delighted us long enough. Let the other young ladies have time to exhibit.

If we chose to refuse irony, we risk becoming irony’s dupe.

sometimes there is too much irony all piled up in the barn, and you have to / pitchfork another steaming pile of irony on top of it all, and you have to / pitchfork another,...

If she’s really psychic,” Zack said when he saw Tanisha’s photo at school, “why does she need a doorbell?

Irony is easier than hopeless silence but braver than flight.

Creio que todo o homem ama sempre a mulher a quem está a beijar, ainda que seja por desespero,…

Certainly, it seems true enough that there’s a good deal of irony in the world… I mean, if you live in a world full of politicians and advertising, there’s obviously a lot of deception.

Often we withhold our affections, waiting first for love to be extended to us. The irony is that we are loved for loving.

The irony here is the man who has done the most to keep these papers from becoming available, Dick Nixon, is the man who’s going to benefit the most from them because people are going...

I don’t know whether Asimov realized he was saying this as well, but as an old historical materialist, if only as an afterthought, he must have realized that he was saying too: No one here...

The speed felt tremendous. And the bottom of the ravine was treacherous. She ought to control her mount somehow – slow it; steer it to safer footing. Of course. And while she was at it,...

It is extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as [inherently] exceptional, whatever the motivation. There are big countries and small countries, rich and poor, those with long democratic traditions and those still finding...

It is odd that the Bible says, ‘God created man,’ whereas it is the other way round: man has created God. It is odd that the Bible says, ‘The body is mortal, the soul is...

Story Content Warning: There will be angst, sex, a little rough language and rampant lesbianism. If this is not your cup of tea, don’t drink it. If you are not old enough to read this,...

I was tired of this silly joking about my ‘speaking countenance’. I could keep a secret as well as anyone. Poirot had always persisted in the humiliating belief that I am a transparent character and...

She feels “Brutal Dynasty” actually may become the Great American Novel she and her fellow critics have been looking for so long.

What tale do you like best to hear?’ ‘Oh, I have not much choice! They generally run on the same theme – courtship; and promise to end in the same catastrophe – marriage.

The irony of ironies is, in order to make this coin totally legal and totally monetized, the buyer will have to give, in addition to millions of dollars it costs to buy it, $20 —...

Thank heaven for people who are satisfied with facts that conform to the reality they wish to believe.

My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch

Anyway, I’m in bed with her, with her bracelets. Her face is a blank, so I darken the lights. Off go her silky undergarments. The bracelets are all she has on. They glint slightly, a...

Doakes had a first name! It was Albert – had anyone ever really called him that? Unthinkable. I had assumed his name was Sergeant.

No se podía estimar que hablase bien un hombre que a cada dos por tres decía «en realidad».

Irony is the word I forget the meaning of immediately after I look it up, but I kind of feel like I live in a constant state of it.

She upset Billy simply by being his mother. She made him feel embarrased and ungrateful and weak because she had gone to so much trouble to give him life, and to keep that life going,...

If your career doesn’t work out, write a book about it.

Yup, believe it: I was born on March 28, yet my name is April.

Royal Young’s writing is that rare blend of irony and beauty.

I had a dream about you painting the scene of a house fire. The clocks were melting and Salvador Dali was riding around in a clown car muttering something about irony.

I got this to say. You’re acting like a crowd of kids.

How many times do I have to tell you? We are not gangsters!

You know, you’re rather amusingly wrong.

They only asked for punishments that fitted their crimes. Not ones that came like cupboards with built-in bedrooms. Not ones you spent your whole life in, wandering through its maze of shelves.

That was the last cruel irony of Tobias’s life: that he doomed the woman he would have died to save.

Oh, I’m sorry. Did you want a fan club? You are right. I loved the movie, and you were perfect in it, you were absolutely amazing. Definitely Oscar material.

But that’s men all over … Poor dears, they can’t help it. They haven’t got logical minds.