In 1913, when Anthony Patch was twenty-five, two years were already gone since irony, the Holy Ghost of this later day, had, theoretically at least, descended upon him. Irony was the final polish of the shoe, the ultimate dab of the clothes-brush, a sort of intellectual «There!» yet at the brink of this story he has as yet gone no further than the conscious stage. As you first see him he wonders frequently whether he is not without honor and slightly mad, a shameful and obscene thinness glistening on the surface of the world like oil on a clean pond, these occasions being varied, of course, with those in which he thinks himself rather an exceptional young man, thoroughly sophisticated, well adjusted to his environment, and somewhat more significant than any one else he knows.
F. Scott FitzgeraldTags: age shallow irony fitzgerald superficial beautiful-and-the-damned
I never take out clients. It’s bad policy.” He looked me straight in the eyes as he said it. Reaching across for the glove compartment, his arm accidentally brushed my leg.
Gabrielle BlackTags: fiction irony lawyer james-stone jamie-stone
Acceptable hypocrisy is often called politeness.
Shannon L. AlderTags: manners politeness hypocrisy irony mediocrity fake accepted
1776: A declaration of the Parlement of Paris:
The first rule of justice is to conserve for each individual that which belongs to him. This is a fundamental rule of natural law, human rights and civil government; a rule which consists not only in maintaining the rights of property, but also those rights vested in the individual and derived from prerogatives of birth and social position.
We give up our power to the very people who took it away from us in the first place.
Patti DighTags: power change courage encouragement irony
You cut life to pieces with your epigrams.
Oscar WildeA gurgling chuckle came from behind him; Jonas had heard it often enough to know that it signified something as close to laughter as the creature ever got. “Yet you believe those things won’t come if you serve your Lord? You know what they say about the road to Hell, Judas.
Kaine AndrewsTags: irony black-humor ioudas
It wasn't long after the discovery of modern anesthesia that people began to die of it.
Wolf PascoeMundane, boring stories--not interesting ones--are the ideal in an operating room.
Wolf PascoeGood judgment comes by way of experience, which comes of bad judgment.
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