#irony

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #irony




Oh, I’m sorry. Did you want a fan club? You are right. I loved the movie, and you were perfect in it, you were absolutely amazing. Definitely Oscar material.


Ani San


#irony #movie-star #oscar #rudeness #love

That will do extremely well, child. You have delighted us long enough. Let the other young ladies have time to exhibit.


Jane Austen


#irony #modesty #musicality #showing-off #music

Being a woman is worse than being a farmer there is so much harvesting and crop spraying to be done: legs to be waxed, underarms shaved, eyebrows plucked, feet pumiced, skin exfoliated and moisturised, spots cleansed, roots dyed, eyelashes tinted, nails filed, cellulite massaged, stomach muscles exercised. The whole performance is so highly tuned you only need to neglect it for a few days for the whole thing to go to seed. Sometimes I wonder what I would be like if left to revert to nature — with a full beard and handlebar moustache on each shin Dennis Healey eyebrows face a graveyard of dead skin cells spots erupting long curly fingernails like Struwelpeter blind as bat and stupid runt of species as no contact lenses flabby body flobbering around. Ugh ugh. Is it any wonder girls have no confidence?


Helen Fielding


#nature

Human nature is pretty shabby stuff, as you may know from introspection.


Peter De Vries


#nature

But the people only talked about how ugly her face looked. No one even bothered to mention what a sweet, kindhearted girl she was. Now, don’t be amazed! That is just the nature of humans, to notice the one flaw among a person’s ten good qualities.


Janaki Sooriyarachchi


#irony #sarcasm #nature

Actually—and this was where I began to feel seriously uncomfortable—some such divine claim underlay not just 'the occupation' but the whole idea of a separate state for Jews in Palestine. Take away the divine warrant for the Holy Land and where were you, and what were you? Just another land-thief like the Turks or the British, except that in this case you wanted the land without the people. And the original Zionist slogan—'a land without a people for a people without a land'—disclosed its own negation when I saw the densely populated Arab towns dwelling sullenly under Jewish tutelage. You want irony? How about Jews becoming colonizers at just the moment when other Europeans had given up on the idea?


Christopher Hitchens


#britain #colonialism #europe #holy-land #irony

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?


Salley Vickers


#era #funny #gods #greek #irony

Wash: Psychic, though? That sounds like something out of science fiction. Zoe: We live in a space ship, dear.


Joss Whedon


#humour #irony #science-fiction #science

A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that "individuality" is the key to success.


Robert Orben


#irony #identity

So through a world of piety I made my way to Sebastian.


Evelyn Waugh


#irony #lovers #minimalism #homosexuality