"Irony - The modern mode: either the devil’s……" — Julian Barnes

"Irony - The modern mode: either the devil’s mark or the snorkel of sanity."

— Julian Barnes

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184 Quotes by Julian Barnes

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The land of embarrassment and breakfast.
What is taken away is greater than the sum of what was there. This may not be mathematically possible; but…
When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it.
Irony ... may be defined as what people miss.
Global warming is more of a blessing than a curse.
When we fall in love, we hope - both egotistically and altruistically - that we shall be finally, truly seen:…
Perhaps the world progresses not by maturing, but by being in a permanent state of adolescence, of thrilled discovery.
This is what those who haven’t crossed the tropic of grief often fail to understand: the fact that someone is…
You put together two people who have not been put together before; and sometimes the world is changed, sometimes not.…
There is a German word, Sehnsucht, which has no English equivalent; it means 'the longing for something'. It has Romantic…
Why should anything happen when everything has happened?
As I've explained to my wife many times, you have to kill your wife or mistress to get on the…

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It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels. — Saint Augustine
I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself. — Teresa of Avila
The devil put before me that I could not endure the trials of the religious life, because of my delicate… — Teresa of Avila
People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors. — Francis Bacon
To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil. — Pearl Bailey
I was a devil in other countries, and I was a little devil in America, too. — Josephine Baker
Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation. — Hosea Ballou
A church debt is the devil's salary. — Henry Ward Beecher
You shall always find what you created in your mind, for instance, a benevolent God or an evil Devil. Between… — Hans Bender
God loves us; the devil hates us. God wants us to have a fulness of joy as He has. The… — Ezra Taft Benson
A young woman who knows and loves the Book of Mormon, who has read it several times, who has an… — Ezra Taft Benson
Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his… — Ambrose Bierce

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