Holy ghost Quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald

“In 1913, when Anthony Patch was twenty-five, two years were already gone since irony, the Holy Ghost of this later day, had, theoretically at…

— F Scott Fitzgerald

“Irony was the final polish of the shoe, the ultimate dab of the clothes-brush, a sort of intellectual "There!”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“… as to the better centuries that are coming, the artist was surely right. His error lay, in supposing that his age, more than…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Some day perhaps our time will be known as the age of irony. Not the witty irony of the eighteenth century, but the stupid…

— Erich Maria Remarque

“His error lay in supposing that this age, more than any past or future one, is destined to see the tattered garments of Antiquity…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“They had wandered in a defeated continent of the vulgar world, where vulgarity had lost its power and its pride, and had to repeat…

— Rebecca West

“The shoes were of white leather and fur, with impractical heels that would add half a foot to my height, but unlike every other…

— Heather Fawcett

“He himself, Anthony went on to think, he himself had chosen to regard the whole process as either pointless or a practical joke. Yes,…

— Aldous Huxley

“He assumed a manner that could be called circular irony. Everything he said, he said in quotes, with an artificial, exaggerated emphasis, and with…

— Stanisław Lem

“This was his healthy state and it made him cheerful, pleasant, and very attractive to intelligent men and to all women. In this state…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Think about it. People in the sixteenth century - not to mention in Jesus's time - didn't look like this: perfect skin, perfect hairdos,…

— Julia David Levithan

“Irony keeps reality at a distance. It has become our primary method for combatting the external world’s incompatibility with our own desires. Today’s irony…

— Ian Bogost