Perhaps we can conceive of the ironist as the fetishist’s apprentice, reaching out for all readers, ensnaring them in a tangle of ambiguity, uncertainty and indecision from which there is no escape. Irony, quite possibly,...

My momma always said, ‘You and Elvis are pretty good, but y’all ain’t no Chuck Berry.

The cinema is an invention without any future.

You could write a book about things that you can’t find on-line.

…queira Deus que nunca se extinga a caridade para que não venha a acabar-se a pobreza…

I’m as lucky as a bed of oysters on cioppino night.

He smelled the smells of commerce and listened to the cursing of the sailors, both of which he admired: the former, as it reeked of wealth, and the latter because it combined his two other...

Give the People what they want – and they’ll get what they deserve.

Regret and pangs of conscience are feelings we assign to others to make the world seem a little more fair, to even things out a little and provide consolation. In reality, those who do wrong...

Just as she was unaware of the hidden currents of politics running below the surface of College affairs, so the Scholars, for their part, would have been unable to see the rich seething stew of...

A united front announcing a split.

I gather they are even vaguely pacifist, not on moral grounds but from an ingrained habit of belittling anything that concerns the great mass of their fellow men and from a dash of purely fashionable...

I am not going to give you disclaimers about what you can expect to find in my story. I went through menopause recently and find I don’t much care about anyone’s sensibilities anymore. I am...

And, conversely, she went on to herself, sneering at the Grand Duke’s palace, poverty is wasted on the poor, who never know how to make the best of things, are only the rich without money,...

Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it.

One of life’s ironies is that the more honest and vulnerable you are, the more others try to discredit you as a fraud and a fake. Shut them up by not caring.

I think you’ll find that I’m qualified to deal with practically everything, if I choose. That last part, of course, is essential. –Devyn DuChien

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.