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Quotes About Irony

The oft repeated jape about his father was just another lie, Lord Tywin Lannister in the end did not shit gold.
~ George R.R. Martin
I am not without mercy," thundered he who was notoriously without mercy.
~ George R.R. Martin
If you do shit gold, Father, find a privy and get busy, he wanted to say, but he knew better. --Tyrion Lannister
~ George R.R. Martin
Quentyn Martell almost laughed aloud. The gods are mad.
~ George R.R. Martin
The Lord of Casterly Rock made such an impressive figure that it was a shock when his destrier dropped a load of dung right at the base of the throne.
~ George R.R. Martin
God plays savage japes upon us all, but men are crueler still.
~ George R.R. Martin
The gods make japes of all our hopes and plans.
~ George R.R. Martin
He'd holler starvation in a pie shop.
~ George S. Schuyler
It is one of the sad ironies of life that one has to make money in order to spend time but waste time in order to make money. In
~ George Sanders
The irony of this endeavor is palpable, for English itself is a hopeless hodgepodge of other tongues, with more exceptions than rules, more chaos than order, and enough new words created each day to keep the Oxford English Dictionary folks very, very busy.
~ George Takei
There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice.
~ George Will
The phrase "domestic cat" is an oxymoron.
~ George Will
It is clear that the world is purely parodic, in other words, that each thing seen is the parody of another, or is the same thing in a deceptive form.
~ Georges Bataille
It is clear that the world is purely parodic, that each thing seen is the parody of another, or is the same thing in a deceptive form.
~ Georges Bataille
What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around.
~ Georges Bernanos
Satan is too hard a master. He would never command as did the Other with divine simplicity: 'Do likewise.' The devil will have no victims resemble him. He permits only a rough caricature, impotent, abject, which has to serve as food for eternal irony, the mordant irony of the depths.
~ Georges Bernanos
Un sim? al libert??ii absolute. Un sentiment asem?n?tor po?i avea doar în mormânt ?i la WC. Interesant e c? ambele au aproximativ acelea?i dimensiuni.
~ Georgi Gospodinov
He expects us to kill him," Palomides said to Dinadan. "Some people are so demanding," Dinadan replied. "Considering we've only just met, I mean.
~ Gerald Morris
"If the law supposes that," said Mr. Bumble, "the law is a ass, a idiot."
~ Charles Dickens
He was the mildest manner'd man That ever scuttled ship or cut a throat.
~ Lord Byron
No doctor takes pleasure in the health even of his friends.
~ Michel de Montaigne
The suffering of the rich is among the sweetest pleasures of the poor.
~ R. M. Huber
It is so comical to hear oneself called old, even at ninety I suppose!
~ Alice James
The man recover'd of the bite, The dog it was that died.
~ Oliver Goldsmith