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Letter "I" » Irony
«My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch»
Author: Jack Nicholson
(Actor, Film Director, Producer)
| About:
Irony
| Keywords:
bitch, ironies, irony, Son of, son of a bitch
«Irony is jesting behind hidden gravity»
«She thought of a sunrise over the library slope at Cornell University that nobody out on it had seen because the slope faces west.»
Author: Thomas Pynchon
| About:
Irony
| Keywords:
Cornell, Cornell University, slope, slopes, sunrise, The Library, university, West
«It is a fitting irony that under Richard Nixon, 'launder' became a dirty word»
Author: William Zinsser
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Irony
| Keywords:
fitting, irony, launder, Nixon, Richard, Richard Nixon
«Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves»
Author: Karl Kraus
(Critic, Journalist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Irony
| Keywords:
bays, Graves, ironies, irony, pissing, sentimental
«Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Irony,
Wit
| Keywords:
For, is a, quotation, serviceable, substitute, substituted, substituting, wit
«Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom»
«I have no race prejudice. I think I have no color prejudices or caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. Indeed, I know it. I can stand any society. All that I care to know is that a man is a human being -- that is enough for me; he can't be any worse.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Discrimination,
Irony,
Prejudice
| Keywords:
caste, castes, creed
«Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.»
«Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do»
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
(Philosopher, Theologian)
| About:
Irony
| Keywords:
cherished, disciplinarian, ironies, irony
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