Quotes about irony

The need for novelty is the characteristic of an alienated gorilla.

Society: an inferno of saviors!

"Since our young gentleman," says Locke, "is about to marry, it is time to leave him with his mistress." And with these words he ends his book. As I have not the honour of educating "A young gentleman," I shall take care not to follow his example.

He found himself now in the agreeable situation of being able to do what was best for others and at the same time what was convenient to himself.

Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved.

The modern clergyman has acquired in his study of the science which I believe is called exegesis an astonishing facility for explaining things away.

The intellectual world is divided into two classes — dilettantes, on the one hand, and pedants, on the other.

The execution was set for the 29th of March, at nine in the morning. This delay was due to a desire on the part of the authorities to act slowly and impersonally, in the manner of planets or vegetables.

"Maybe this crime belongs to the history of Jewish superstitions," murmmured Lönnrot.

"Like Christianity," the editor put in.

My undertaking is not difficult, essentially... I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.

What opinions the masses hold, or do not hold, is looked on as a matter of indifference. They can be granted intellectual liberty because they have no intellect.

The Americans always go one better on any kind of beastliness, whether it is ice-cream soda, racketeering or theosophy.