The irony of life emerges when two categories of men give advices regarding contempt for wordly goods. One, the rich, who do not know at first hand, what poverty is and another, the poor, who...

Jesus Christ was innocent too,’ said Svejk, ‘and all the same they crucified him. No one anywhere has ever worried about a man being innocent. Maul halten und weiter dienen [‘Grin and bear it and...

General Peckem even recommends that we send our men into combat in full-dress uniform so they’ll make a good impression on the enemy when they’re shot down”.

My book has a very simple surface, but there are layers of irony and paradox all the way through it.

There’s nothing wrong with giving up all your principles for a suitable financial reward. It is indeed the basis of our society.

What an interesting irony that the foremost chip promoter in the world comes from Wisconsin and Wisconsin would be the first state to say, ‘Hey, at least get our permission first’. It’s good that lawmakers...

So the reason I was struck again and again was because of my overwhelmingly positive energy. Funny, I’d always thought of myself as a pessimist.

They say a woman’s loyalty only lasts as long as it takes her to hang up and dial again.

I quote others only in order the better to express myself.

I’d kill for a Nobel Peace Prize.

I’ve never written a quote I feel would be suitable for my gravestone. Wouldn’t it be ironic if it were this one? Oh, and could you pull a few weeds while you’re here?

We were young, she continued, while she had a bad heart. Did we not want to earn our tips, she asked us and, cowed, we refrained from introducing the subject again.Her bad heart, I noticed,...

Ironic, isn’t it?

People who didn’t need people needed people around to know that they were the kind of people who didn’t need people.

LIII.What is the holiness of conversation? It isto master death.

What – what – what are you doing?” he demanded.”I am almost six hundred years old,” Magnus claimed, and Ragnor snorted, since Magnus changed his age to suit himself every few weeks. Magnus swept on....

The Emperor, you see, protects… He protects mankind, through the Legions, through the Martial corps, through the war machines of the Mechanicum. He understands the dangers. The inconsistencies. He uses you, and all the instruments...

We live in such a cynical, postmodern society that if you are offended by something like this, people say, ‘Lighten up, it’s ironic, it’s a joke.’ And that’s really nice if you’re a student of...

It is so hard to talk with John about my case, because he is so wise, and because he loves me so.

Valence passa une main sur ses yeux et quitta la fenêtre.-L’alcool est là, lui dit Néron en tendant les bras.

What I’am learning is the world laughs through its ass every day, then just lies double-time when shit goes down. It’s like we’re on a Pritikin diet of fucken lies. I mean – what kind...

Labour day is a great American holiday that peoplecelebrate by going out and buying products made in China

Dream big!But not so big that it becomes a mess, and you may never reach reality.

Some quotes aren’t worth typing.

The irony is that in the 1970s and 1980s, we were trying to get to that world again. We’re darn close to price stability now.

Even English Language doesn’t provide you with the Synonyms of the word Success.

My father told me that it is only a mad man that keeps bushy hairs. I asked him, “what about the great men with bushy hairs?”. He replied, “education had made them mad, so study...

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...