Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Osgood

Being Politically Correct means always having to say you're sorry.

Denis Healey

Being attacked by him is like being savaged by a dead sheep.

Elbert Hubbard

If you don't advertise yourself you will be advertised by your loving enemies.

Elbert Hubbard

Perfume: any smell that is used to drown a worse one.

Samuel Butler

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

Athanasius

While [the Arians], like men sprung from a dunghill, truly "spoke from the earth" [Jn. 3:31], the bishops [of Nicea], not having invented their phrases for themselves, but having testimony from their fathers, wrote as they did. For ancient bishops, of the great Rome and our city [i.e., Alexandria, Egypt, where Athanasius was bishop], some 130 years ago, wrote and censured those who said that the Son was a creature and not consubstantial with the Father.

Alexander Woollcott

She was like a sinking ship firing on the rescuers.

William Shakespeare

I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed!

Charles Dickens

Their demeanor is invariably morose, sullen, clownish and repulsive. I should think there is not, on the face of the earth, a people so entirely destitute of humor, vivacity, or the capacity for enjoyment.

Edgar Allan Poe

The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of merely a comma, it often occurs that an axiom appears a paradox, or that a sarcasm is converted into a sermonoid.

Antonin Artaud

Without sarcasm I sink into chaos.

Eddie Izzard

The National Rifle Association says, 'Guns don't kill people. People do'. But I think the gun helps.

Eddie Izzard

If you're choking in a restaurant you can just say the magic words, 'Heimlich maneuver,' and all will be well. Trouble is, it's difficult to say 'Heimlich maneuver' when you're choking to death.

Benjamin Franklin

Sarcasm is the lowest form of humor but the highest form of flattery.

Jane Austen

You have delighted us long enough.

Ashleigh Brilliant

I can do only one thing at a time, but I can avoid doing many things simultaneously.

Ashleigh Brilliant

The time for action is past! Now is the time for senseless bickering!

Ashleigh Brilliant

I want either less corruption, or more chance to participate in it.

Charlie Chaplin

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

Catherynne M. Valente

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

Jamie Zawinski

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

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.

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.

Megan Ronhovde

We knew 3-point shooting was their game. There's a lot of irony in it in that we go on the same philosophy.

Tom Swan

Is there some irony here? Probably. But sometimes in order to enact real reform, interesting alliances have to be made.

Czeslaw Milosz

Irony is the glory of slaves.