“Don't you know that I passionately dote on every chin on his face?” — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
The greatest fools are ofttimes more clever then the men who laugh at them. — George RR Martin Copy Share Image
guess they forgot to program us with any respect for authority." "well, I have a highly developed sense of irony. — James Patterson Copy Share Image
Dangerously well’— what an irony is this: it expresses precisely the doubleness, the paradox, of feeling ‘too well — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
“If your philosophy can be explained in a tweet, you're a moron. That's my philosophy. Wait...” — T.J. Kirk Copy Share Image
“The irony of advertising, a communications business, is that we treat words with little respect, devaluing their meaning.” — John Kenney Copy Share Image
“Imagine the wizened quality of a life blanched of contradiction and double standard. p 44” — Michael Perry Copy Share Image
“Irony of "importance": Those who deserve, don't get it; Those who don't, get it in abundance by you.” — Shivam Singh Copy Share Image
The worst part is not having the memories. It's only having emptiness to ponder what could have been but never was. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In India, whichever language you write in, the possibility of people not understanding irony or not understanding [remains there]. This as a… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“They only asked for punishments that fitted their crimes. Not ones that came like cupboards with built-in bedrooms. Not ones you spent… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
It was not possible for us to produce the same optimism and the same kind of humour or irony. Actually, it was… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I went to university for a couple of years and I didn't enjoy university. The studying and the accountancy, economics, I just… — Gerry Harvey Copy Share Image
“The pain breached through the indolence of mind. But the dizziness made reactions very slow and stretched, like a novice stage actor… — Abhish Copy Share Image
The other thing I said is the great irony is you will be back fighting against your own weapons. Had [Bashar] Assad… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
(On The International Criminal Court) "For the victors of the Cold War to submit to an unelected, unaccountable, and almost certainly hostile… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
“The irony of commitment is that it's deeply liberating -- in work, in play, in love. The act frees you from the… — Anne Morris Copy Share Image
Seeing any war through the distortion of comedy is healthy. There is just too much absurdity and irony at play in a… — Dave Abrams Copy Share Image
“In an ideal world, a young man should not be an ironical person. At that age, irony prevents growth, stunts the imagination.… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“FI: Elämä on julmaa ironiaa. Jotkut sielut kaipaavat taistella vapauden puolesta, mutta heiltä puuttuvat keinot. Toiset, joilla on kaikki mahdollisuudet vastustaa, valitsevat… — Alex Vuorenmaan Copy Share Image
“What an irony it is that these living beings whose shade we sit in, whose fruit we eat, whose limbs we climb,… — Jim Robbins Copy Share Image
“It might seem to you that living in the woods on a riverbank would remove you from the modern world. But not… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Some of Mr. Gregory's poems have merely appeared in The New Yorker ; others are New Yorker poems: the inclusive topicality, the… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
Sure, nothing succeeds like success. Fact is, dearest, we are fools. We cling to an ideal no one wants or cares about.… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“The irony of life Is our greatest fear is to forget, Yet it's the only certain fate That anything has ever met.… — Erin Hanson Copy Share Image
“sometimes there is too much irony all piled up in the barn, and you have to / pitchfork another steaming pile of… — Mark Leidner Copy Share Image
The significance of man is that he is insignificant and is aware of it. — Carl L. Becker Copy Share Image
“Diamond is the hardest substance, but the Irony, it is also brittle.” — Pushkar Saraf Copy Share Image
“We give up our power to the very people who took it away from us in the first place.” — Patti Digh Copy Share Image