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Irony Quotes
"The police are not here to create disorder, they're here to preserve disorder."
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"And pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked."
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"The policeman isn't there to create disorder; the policeman is there to preserve disorder."
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"And thanks to Christina McMullen, who has taught me that common sense and intelligence need not have any correlation whatsoever."
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"In our native terms, the ironic style is often compounded with the sardonic and the hard-boiled; even the effortlessly superior. But irony originates in the glance and the shrug of the loser, the outsider, the despised minority. It is a nuance that comes most effortlessly to the oppressed."
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"Nothing kills a party like an oversize metal hedgehog."
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"If "Frailty, thy name is woman", Frailty must be a man named as 'woman."
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"Some say it is better to have eaten and lost than never to have eaten at all."
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"It would be dreadfullyironic, I mused, if once I earned a soul, I forgot everything about being fey, including all my memories of her. That sort of ending seemedappropriately tragic; the smitten fey creature becomes human but forgets why he wanted to in the first place. Old fairy tales loved that sort of irony."
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"Sandar came to stand beside him, frowning down at the crumpled High Lord. "He does not look so mighty lying there," he said wonderingly. "He does not look so much greater than me.""
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"A drunken but exceedingly depressed German clown from Munich entertained the public."
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"Humor: the divine flash that reveals the world in its moral ambiguity and man in his profound incompetence to judge others; humor: the intoxicating relativity of human things; the strange pleasure that conies of the certainty that there is no certainty.But humor, to recall Octavio Paz, is "the great invention of the modern spirit." It has not been with us forever, and it won't be with us forever either.With a heavy heart, I imagine the day when Panurge no longer makes people laugh."
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"The most dangerous irony is, people are angry with others because of their own incompetence."
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"Apologize: To lay the foundation for a future offence."
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"The funny part of being funny is when you start seeing your fans writing funny words and attributing them to you."
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"She says what holds their marriage together is that she feels too damn sorry for him to ask for a divorce."
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"As the ironist does not have the new within his power, it might be asked how he destroys the old, and to this it must be answered: he destroys the given actuality by the given actuality itself."
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"Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat."
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"I hope you're not proposing to enslave us,' said Twoflower.Marchesa looked genuinely shocked. 'Certainly not! Whatever could have given you that idea? Your lives in Krull will be rich, full and comfortable-''Oh, good,' said Rincewind.'-just not very long."
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"A tree fears an axe even though its handle is made from it."
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"Starving whilst schooled is like a man's finding out that his wife is on her periods - a few seconds after he took Viagra."
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"I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here."
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"One of the cool chaste countries - Canada or Sweden."
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"The boring thing with 'No sex before marriage' is that kids will never get to attend their parents' wedding."
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"Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another."
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"Of course boredom may lead you to anything. It is boredom sets one sticking golden pins into people, but all that would not matter. What is bad (this is my comment again) is that I dare say people will be thankful for the gold pins then."
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