One of the outstanding ironies of history is the utter disregard of ranks and titles in the final judgments men pass on… — Samuel Logan Brengle Copy Share Image
The antidote to hubris, to overweening pride, is irony, that capacity to discover and systematize ideas. — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
It's sad how someone can go from being the reason you wake up smiling, to the reason you cry yourself to sleep. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“He gave me the key, which I later discovered would open practically every door in the hotel. I thanked him, and I… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Life is full of little ironies, but it's also pockmarked with some the size of that big rock in Australia.” — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
Most Russians don't treat the government, or those in power, as something close to them. They don't believe that they, as ordinary… — Andrey Zvyagintsev Copy Share Image
“I don't think irony's meant to synergize with anything as heartfelt as sadness.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“She feels "Brutal Dynasty" actually may become the Great American Novel she and her fellow critics have been looking for so long.” — Clyde Brion Davis Copy Share Image
“Now, as I understand it, the bards were feared. They were respected, but more than that they were feared. If you were… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
A play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate ignorance-you set free the concealed irony, the deadly joke. — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
It is an irony of medical history that even as Freud's later work would make him the progenitor of modern psychodynamic psychotherapy,… — Scott Stossel Copy Share Image
“So you thought you could shit and eat at the same time. How disgustingly convenient.” — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
“Ridiculous," he said breathlessly. "You ought to give up detecting and try fantasy writing.” — Robert Galbraith Copy Share Image
Oh,” she said. “You can rest assured that I will kill him. Mostly this is to emphasize what I said before: no… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
Strong people stand up for themselves. Stronger people stand up for others. The irony is that while sleep sometimes brings nightmares, it's… — Chris Gardner Copy Share Image
“Inexplicably, I felt drops of icy sweat dripping up my back. I am aware that icy and sweat are contradictory by their… — Chris Dee Copy Share Image
“She came from the most worthless of classes - the rich, with a smattering of culture.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
What is called music today is all too often only a disguise for the monologue of power. However, and this is the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The green prehuman earth is the mystery we were chosen to solve, a guide to the birthplace of our spirit, but it… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
