#irony

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #irony




She had hit rock-bottom. She had given a blow job to a man who for all intents and purposes, was a bum. He had smelled so bad, she forced him to spray on some of the perfume she always carried in her purse. Her favorite perfume. After tonight, she was quitting. Yeah, she’d have to go back home with her two kids, grovel to her mama and work a dead-end job, but anything was better than getting down on your knees to give a guy as disgusting as Lenny a one-off.


A.T. Hicks


#humor #irony #prostitute #strip-club #home

My aunt and overprivileged cousin only recognize two states of being: glitter and grunge. And if you weren’t glitter, well, that only left one other option.


Rachel Vincent


#irony-of-life #life

Sometimes, the embers are better then the campfire. It's strange, but it's true.


Stephen King


#irony #life #life

You can put anything into words, except your own life


Max Frisch


#meaning #life

That was his mother. When she wasn't crying over the breakfast cereal, she was laughing about killing herself.


Nick Hornby


#irony #life #mothers #people #life

She upset Billy simply by being his mother. She made him feel embarrased and ungrateful and weak because she had gone to so much trouble to give him life, and to keep that life going, and Billy didn't really like life at all.


Kurt Vonnegut


#irony #life #life

I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant.


Markus Zusak


#life #paradox #life

But that's men all over ... Poor dears, they can't help it. They haven't got logical minds.


Dorothy L. Sayers


#logic #logical-thinking #men #satire #men

It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel. -Anatole France, novelist, essayist, Nobel laureate (1844-1924)


Anatole France


#irony #politics #men

A DEAD STATESMAN I could not dig: I dared not rob: Therefore I lied to please the mob. Now all my lies are proved untrue And I must face the men I slew. What tale shall serve me here among Mine angry and defrauded young? from EPITAPHS OF THE WAR 1914-18


Rudyard Kipling


#deceit #dishonesty #irony #lies #politics