(189 quotes found)
“Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.”
Oscar Wilde
“Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.”
Erica Jong
“Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.”
François de la Rochefoucauld
“Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment”
Edwin P. Whipple
“Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.”
Agnes Repplier
“It may be that we shall by a process of sublime irony have reached a stage in this story where safety will be the sturdy child of terror, and survival the twin brother of annihilation.”
Winston Churchill
“The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.”
Robert A. Heinlein
“My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch”
Jack Nicholson
“Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do”
Soren Kierkegaard
“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.”
Mark Twain
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