First Cousin Quote by Paul Ham

If anything qualifies as an irony of history it would be this: that Marx and Engels throughout the nineteenth century wrote about America the…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Then, as now, nobody talked about the legacy of Empire. Britain had colonised, owned, occupied or interfered with half the world. We had carved…

— Jeanette Winterson

“Delight in smooth-sounding platitudes, refusal to face unpleasant facts, desire for popularity and electoral success irrespective of the vital interests of the State, genuine…

— Winston S. Churchill

David Lloyd George had been to Germany, and been so dazzled by the Führer that he compared him to George Washington. Hitler was a…

— Boris Johnson

It seems to me,' said the other, 'That you are simply seeking a pretext to insult the Marquis.' By George!' said Syme facing round…

— Anonymous

“Britannia, that unfortunate female, is always before me, like a trussed fowl; skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with…

— Charles Dickens

“Irony is a treacherous servant; unless it's very carefully watched over, it has a tendency to expose the foolishness of its apparent master.”

— Mark O'Connell

“It makes me sick,the blindness, deadness, out-of-dateness, stodginess and, yes, sheer jealous malice of the great bulk of England.”

— John Fowles

“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

“Britain wouldn’t have won the war without its eccentric geniuses.”

— Sara Sheridan

“Nothing more aggravating than a seamless, unremitting irony which leaves you no time to breathe and still less to think; which instead of being…

— Emil M. Cioran

“The Emperor decided to make a proclamation to his troops about the importance of compassion in the face of the rising tide of heinous…

— Christopher Moore