All Quotes By Tag: Irony
“Suddenly the thought that the end of her life was imminent shocked him; it was one thing to pity someone he didn’t know, quite another to face the same dilemma with someone he knew intimately. That was the trouble with beds. They turned strangers into intimates more quickly than ten years of polite teas in parlours.”
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“People tell you to believe in yourself for your whole life, then call you arrogant when you begin taking their advice.”
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“We will all be destroyed whether we like it or not. I say let’s like it.”
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“If Socrates was alive today he would say : I know that I know everything. That’s what contemporary philosophers do.”
“So many authors, so little time to disqualify them!”
“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.”