235 quotes found
“Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.”
“The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's weak points but from his good qualities. Do you know what I'm getting at? People are drawn deepe...”
“The irony of life is that those who wear masks often tell us more truths than those with open faces.”
“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 sc...”
“To agree to a marriage is to consent to a mutual act of transformation, to promise to ensure that the versions of yourselves that you will become will remain in harmony, though you yourselves can n...”
“Thank heaven for people who are satisfied with facts that conform to the reality they wish to believe.”
“Even things that are true can be proved.”
“It is the oldest ironies that are still the most satisfying: man, when preparing for bloody war, will orate loudly and most eloquently in the name of peace.”
“War is always an adventure to those who've never seen it.”
“He wont stop the war until you give him the peace prize.”
“I am waiting for the war to be fought which will make the world safe for anarchy”
“Whatever we may think of the merits of torturing children for pleasure, and no doubt there is much to be said on both sides, I am sure we all agree that it should be done with sterilized instruments.”
“As soon as you say it about a record, you're like some little zombie in a funny dungeon.”
“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 fashionab...”
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“The fool's crime is the crime that is found out and the wise man's crime is the crime that is not found out.”
“Nobody these days holds the written word in such high esteem as police states do.”
“Irony alone is damning.The flesh will be bland and you will believe you are forever reading the same book.”
“An unhappy ending makes it literature rather than romantic fiction.”
“Suddenly the thought that the end of her life was imminent shocked him; it was one thing to pity someone he didn't know, quite another to face the same dilemma with someone he knew intimately. That...”
