I worked for Miss Margaret thirty-eight years. She had her a baby girl with the colic and the only thing that stopped the hurting was to hold her. So I made me a wrap. I...

Facebook is that successful guy you’re supposed to want to date, but you can’t keep your mind off the beautiful freak in the corner. Twitter is my freak.

Because I am a connoisseur of fine irony. ’Tis a bit like fine wine, but has a better bite.

To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, “I wish I had known this some time ago.

An unhappy ending makes it literature rather than romantic fiction.

…I remember that my mother had always said to be polite and finish my meal. At last he gave no more struggles. The deed was done. Now the boat contained four men, not one heartbeat...

Life is full of little ironies, but it’s also pockmarked with some the size of that big rock in Australia.

These were always the weirdest trips for me, when it was midnight or even later, and we pulled up to a dark house, trying to be quiet. Like a robbery in reverse, creeping around to...

Aku telah mengidap sakit gila nomor enam belas: yakni penyakit manusia yang membuat dunia sendiri dalam kepalanya, menciptakan masalah-masalahnya sendiri, terpuruk di dalamnya, lalu menyelesaikan masalah-masalah itu, sambil tertawa-tawa, juga sendirian.

I’m not saying you’re weak, but you brawl like a couple of girls having a pillow fight.

This was a vagrant of sixty-five, who was going to prison for not playing the flute; or, in other words, for begging in the streets, and doing noting for his livelihood. In the next cell,...

You know something is wrong when the government declares opening someone else’s mail is a felony but your internet activity is fair game for data collecting.

Would you like me to [kill you] now?” asked Snape, his voice heavy with irony. “Or would you like a few moments to compose an epitaph?

In order to do the unthinkable, do not think about it.

They thought more before nine a.m. than most people thought all month. I remember once declining cherry pie at dinner, and Rand cocked his head and said, ‘Ahh! Iconoclast. Disdains the easy, symbolic patriotism.’ And...

I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.

I never take out clients. It’s bad policy.” He looked me straight in the eyes as he said it. Reaching across for the glove compartment, his arm accidentally brushed my leg.

Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are a subject to a good many different ailments, but I have never heard of one who has suffered from insomnia.

the weekly thirty minutes of sexual stress was a chronic but low-grade discomfort, like the humidity in Florida

Most people willingly deceive themselves with a doubly false faith; they believe in eternal memory (of men, things, deeds, peoples) and in rectification (of deeds, errors, sins, injustice). Both are sham. The truth lies at...

In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.

So, now I’ve been to see a drug counselor who told me I need to lay off the drugs and talk about my feelings, and a shrink who heard what I had to say and...

You cut life to pieces with your epigrams.

That’s the irony of the whole thing.

VLADIMIR: Moron!ESTRAGON: Vermin!VLADIMIR: Abortion!ESTRAGON: Morpion!VLADIMIR: Sewer-rat!ESTRAGON: Curate!VLADIMIR: Cretin!ESTRAGON: (with finality). Crritic!VLADIMIR: Oh!He wilts, vanquished, and turns away.

Ironic. I’m here because of my inherent dangerousness, but it’s my inherent politeness that makes me put up with this. With him.

He liked the Leedses. He was sorry that he had been to the morgue. He thought the madman who visited them might have liked them too. But the madman would like them better the way...

The irony, and I think this is true for all these labs, is a lot of these companies are like Moses. They led these industries to the Promised Land, but they’re doomed to stay in...

Imagine a factory staffed by Alphas—that is to say by separate and unrelated individuals of good heredity and conditioned so as to be capable (within limits) of making a free choice and assuming responsibilities. Imagine...

Il me semble que je serais toujours bien la ou je ne suis pas.It seems to me that I will always be happy in the place where I am not.

I hope I know my own unworthiness, and that I hate and despise myself and all my fellow-creatures as every practicable Christian should.

What each individual wills is obstructed by everyone else, and what emerges is something that no one willed.

And if a diversion is needed, why not arrest a general? Arthur Dillon is a friend of eminent deputies, a contender for the post of Commander-in-Chief of the Northern Front; he has proved himself at...

Mais parce que je ne pense pas, dit Néron en se relevant.-Et qu’est-ce que tu fais alors?-Je gouverne.

Now it turns out that a few broadsheet film critics in Britain do indeed belong to a category of people who would have resisted Hitler when he came to power. So the great shame is,...

It is really not so repulsive to see the poor asking for money as to see the rich asking for more money. And advertisement is the rich asking for more money.

Do you see the irony at all, Tristan?’ I stare at him and shake my head. He seems determined not to speak again until I do. ‘What irony?’ I ask eventually, the words tumbling out...

Jesus “…It sounds like these guys would be filed under Assholes Who do Evil Shit in My Name.

Acting is such a desperately futile profession anyway. Playing out the lives of other men. Knowing of their failures and successes long before they ever do. Living, suffering, murdering, dying … all in the space...

Yet you believe those things won’t come if you serve your Lord? You know what they say about the road to Hell, Judas.

[…] cela m’excite de penser à tout ce qui fuit dans la vie au nom de la vie.

Sixty years of virginity tried in vain to dam the waters of instinct as they burst through the granite of good intentions,the rock of irreproachablee conduct.

The irony of life: Realizing a lifetime is barely long enough to figure out how it should have been lived.

There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life — happiness, freedom, and peace of mind — are always attained by giving them to someone else.

To condemn slavery was one thing—that I could do in my own individual heart—but female ministers!

I’d know if I wasn’t fully human, wouldn’t I? Wouldn’t there be some sort of sign, pointed ears or wings or something like that?–Meghan Chase

Ridiculous,” he said breathlessly. “You ought to give up detecting and try fantasy writing.

All depression has its roots in self-pity, and all self-pity is rooted in people taking themselves too seriously.

But who is ever fair in an argument?

What do you take me for? That fool Socrates, who upheld the law at the cost of his own death – just to be ironic? I suspect that act was actually the result of his...