Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

Flattery is often a traffic of mutual meanness, where although both parties intend deception, neither are deceived.

Charles Dickens

There can't be a quarrel without two parties, and I won't be one. I will be a friend to you in spite of you. So now you know what you've got to expect

Charles Dickens

Jarndyce and Jarndyce drones on. This scarecrow of a suit, has, in course of time, become so complicated that no man alive knows what it means. The parties to it understand it least; but it has been observed that no two Chancery lawyers can talk about it for five minutes, without coming to total disagreement as to all the premises.

Charles Dickens

I believe no satirist could breathe this air. If another Juvenal or Swift could rise up among us tomorrow, he would be hunted down. If you have any knowledge of our literature, and can give me the name of any man, American born and bred, who has anatomised our follies as a people, and not as this or that party; and who has escaped the foulest and most brutal slander, the most inveterate hatred and intolerant pursuit; it will be a strange name in my ears, believe me.

Charles Dickens

The plain rule is to do nothing in the dark, to be a party to nothing underhanded or mysterious, and never to put his foot where he cannot see the ground.

Alan Grayson

Many people, improperly, lump together libertarians and the Tea Parties. That's really wrong. Many of the libertarians are physicists, and many of the Tea Party people don't bathe. There's really not much in common there!

Alan Colmes

If what you are claiming is true, I would have shouted it from the rooftops. I would have gone to the authorities, the FBI, the police, the Democratic (Party) anybody that would listen. I wouldn't depend on one guy with the Department of Transportation.

Alan Arkin

That's what we're all doing, all the time, whether we know it or not. Whether we like it or not. Creating something on the spur of the moment with the materials at hand. We might just as well let the rest of it go, join the party, and dance our hearts out.

Al Sharpton

This is not about what party you're part of. This is about right and wrong, ... the conscience of this nation.

Catherynne M. Valente

You humans, you know, whoever built you sewed irony into your sinews.

Charlie Chaplin

I suppose that's one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.

Diane Ackerman

Part of the irony of environmentalism is questing for solutions when you know you're part of the problem.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

History, in the end, becomes a form of irony.

Jamie Zawinski

The universe tends toward maximum irony. Don't push it.

Czeslaw Milosz

Irony is the glory of slaves.

Ann Beattie

Italics provide a wonderful advantage: you see, right away, that the words are in a rush. When something exists at a slant, you can't help but consider irony.

James Patterson

guess they forgot to program us with any respect for authority." "well, I have a highly developed sense of irony.

John Hurt

Life is full of ironies and paradoxes.

Charles Dickens

Stranger, pause and ask thyself the question, Canst thou do likewise? If not, with a blush retire.

Charlotte Bronte

There are not unfrequently substantial reasons underneath for customs that appear to us absurd; and if I were ever again to find myself amongst strangers, I should be solicitous to examine before I condemned.

Arthur C. Clarke

The truth, as always, will be far stranger.

Boyd Holbrook

I just crushed Stranger Things. It's got one of my favorite actors, David Harbour. And obviously Breaking Bad and stuff like that.

Ann Brashares

He was the strangest of strangers in that he was also her oldest friend.

Mira Nair

Truth is much stranger than fiction and, often, much more powerful.

Adrienne Rich

Strangers are an endangered species ...

Jane Austen

Now they were as strangers; nay worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted.

John Abraham

I don't even see the point. He's like a stranger to me.