Give the People what they want - and they'll get what they deserve.

The Kinks

Stichwörter: humor rock-music wit life-lessons irony popular-culture



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If she's really psychic," Zack said when he saw Tanisha's photo at school, "why does she need a doorbell?

Joan Bauer

Stichwörter: irony precognition



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It’s sarcasm, Josh.”

“Sarcasm?”

“It’s from the Greek, sarkasmos. To bite the lips. It means that you aren’t really saying what you mean, but people will get your point. I invented it, Bartholomew named it.”

“Well, if the village idiot named it, I’m sure it’s a good thing.”

“There you go, you got it.”

“Got what?”

“Sarcasm.”

“No, I meant it.”

“Sure you did.”

“Is that sarcasm?”

“Irony, I think.”

“What’s the difference?”

“I haven’t the slightest idea.”

“So you’re being ironic now, right?”

“No, I really don’t know.”

“Maybe you should ask the idiot.”

“Now you’ve got it.”

“What?”

“Sarcasm.

Christopher Moore

Stichwörter: humor sarcasm irony



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Those darling byegone times, Mr Carker,' said Cleopatra, 'with their delicious fortresses, and their dear old dungeons, and their delightful places of torture, and their romantic vengeances, and their picturesque assaults and sieges, and everything that makes life truly charming! How dreadfully we have degenerated!

Charles Dickens

Stichwörter: humor war nostalgia torture irony medieval middle-ages fortresses



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But though it had prevailed against such fierce adversaries as fire and flood, it had fallen victim softly and swiftly to television in the 1960's.

Kate Morton

Stichwörter: technology funny television irony theatres



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Luckily, even as a young man not yet become himself, John Bridgens had two things besides indecision that kept him from self-destruction - books and a sense of irony.

Dan Simmons

Stichwörter: books salvation irony self-destruction



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The things I do for love.

George R.R. Martin

Stichwörter: irony



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He saw that it was an ironical thing for him to be running thus toward that which he had been at such pains to avoid.

Stephen Crane

Stichwörter: war irony crane red-badge-of-courage



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Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him.

John Barrymore

Stichwörter: death irony



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Irony takes nothing away from pathos.

Gustave Flaubert

Stichwörter: irony pathos



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