235 quotes found
“Irony has only emergency use. Carried over time it is the voice of the trapped who have come to enjoy their cage.”
“Irony - The modern mode: either the devils mark or the snorkel of sanity.”
“Even You-Know-Who can't split himself into seven.”
“Sometimes, you're the one who strikes it lucky. Sometimes, it's the other poor bastard who's left with the short straw, and you just have to shut up and get on with it.”
“Human nature is pretty shabby stuff, as you may know from introspection.”
“The list could surely go on, and there is nothing more wonderful than a list, instrument of wondrous hypotyposis.”
“Even if that were true, it wouldn't be irony," Lucas pointed out. "Irony is the contrast between what's said and what happens.”
“Irony cleans away all those secret stains. Irony is the path that leads safely back to official realities.”
“If she's really psychic," Zack said when he saw Tanisha's photo at school, "why does she need a doorbell?”
“Now thats true poetic irony. I rush into battle to defend the fair name of Rose Larkin, and what does she do but fetch Robert to stop me.”
“I dont know why youre enjoying this so much.Because I am a connoisseur of fine irony. Tis a bit like fine wine, but has a better bite.”
“When one has no character, one HAS to apply a method. Here it did wonders incontrovertibly, and I am living on the site of one of the greatest crimes in human history.”
“Labour day is a great American holiday that peoplecelebrate by going out and buying products made in China”
“It's the contradiction of life, if I were with them,I would only wish to be far away. Now that I am far away, all I do is wish for one more day surrounded by them”
“I will never lie again.”
“So such is life that it writes itself, trying to right itself, but there's nothing wrong with it.”
“Gods can screw anything and anybody. For reference, see history.Atticus O'Sullivan”
“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.”
“Irony takes nothing away from pathos.”
“As the ironist does not have the new within his power, it might be asked how he destroys the old, and to this it must be answered: he destroys the given actuality by the given actuality itself.”
