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«My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch»
Author: Jack Nicholson (Actor, Film Director, Producer) | About: Irony | Keywords: bitch, ironies, irony, Son of, son of a bitch
«Irony is jesting behind hidden gravity»
Author: John Weiss | About: Irony | Keywords: gravity, irony, jesting
«She thought of a sunrise over the library slope at Cornell University that nobody out on it had seen because the slope faces west.»
Author: Thomas Pynchon | About: Irony | Keywords: Cornell, Cornell University, slope, slopes, sunrise, The Library, university, West
«It is a fitting irony that under Richard Nixon, 'launder' became a dirty word»
Author: William Zinsser | About: Irony | Keywords: fitting, irony, launder, Nixon, Richard, Richard Nixon
«Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves»
Author: Karl Kraus (Critic, Journalist, Playwright, Poet) | About: Irony | Keywords: bays, Graves, ironies, irony, pissing, sentimental
«Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.»
Author: Oscar Wilde (Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet) | About: Irony, Wit | Keywords: For, is a, quotation, serviceable, substitute, substituted, substituting, wit
«Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom»
Author: Anatole France (Writer) | About: Irony | Keywords: gaieties, gaiety, irony
«I have no race prejudice. I think I have no color prejudices or caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. Indeed, I know it. I can stand any society. All that I care to know is that a man is a human being -- that is enough for me; he can't be any worse.»
Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | About: Discrimination, Irony, Prejudice | Keywords: caste, castes, creed
«Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.»
Author: Samuel Butler | About: Irony | Keywords: irony
«Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do»
Author: Soren Kierkegaard (Philosopher, Theologian) | About: Irony | Keywords: cherished, disciplinarian, ironies, irony
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