All Quotes By Tag: Irony
“So many authors, so little time to disqualify them!”
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“Many millions of people have lost their lives while trying to save a few minutes.”
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“There are few things more mysterious than endings. I mean, for example, when did the Greek gods end, exactly? Was there a day when Zeus waved magisterially down from Olympus and Aphrodite and her lover Ares, and her crippled husband Hephaestus ) I always felt sorry for him), and all the rest got rolled up like a worn-out carpet?”
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“Peter sank. “I’d give anything to see time.”
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“Thank you for sending me a copy of your book. I’ll waste no time reading it.”
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“It strikes me often while I am in Iran that were Christian evangelicals to take a tour of Iran today, they might find it the model for an ideal society they seek in America. Replace Allah with God, Mohammad with Jesus, keep the same public and private notions of chastity, sin, salvation, and God’s will, and a Christian Republic is born.”
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“In the beginning there was the Word. Then we broke it.”
“Repeat a lie a thousand times and it become a successful political campaign.”
“Famine sometimes increases the number of people who are overweight.”
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“Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.”
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“The over-weight and out of shape guy who owned the house had apparently decided that having a half-million dollar house meant that he couldn’t afford to hire someone to clean out his gutters. Now he was dead with what looked to me like a broken neck after the ladder had slipped. He’d taken the plunge into his fancy landscaping—complete with rock garden. But hey, his fucking gutters were clean.”
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