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Irony Quotes
"The police are not here to create disorder, they're here to preserve disorder."
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"The policeman isn't there to create disorder; the policeman is there to preserve disorder."
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"And pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked."
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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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"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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"And thanks to Christina McMullen, who has taught me that common sense and intelligence need not have any correlation whatsoever."
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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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"Apologize: To lay the foundation for a future offence."
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"If "Frailty, thy name is woman", Frailty must be a man named as 'woman."
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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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"Miss Bingley's congratulations to her brother, on his approaching marriage, were all that was affectionate and insincere."
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"A drunken but exceedingly depressed German clown from Munich entertained the public."
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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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"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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"Nothing kills a party like an oversize metal hedgehog."
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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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"The most dangerous irony is, people are angry with others because of their own incompetence."
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"I'm sucking on a cancer stick trying to think of something inspiring to say to help someone have a better life. That's "Irony"."
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"There is a way of reacting to insult that gives people the impression that you want more. I don't know what it is, but I seem to have mastered it."
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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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"Some say it is better to have eaten and lost than never to have eaten at all."
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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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"Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another."
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"Irony: When those who call others a 'threat to Christianity' reject the crucial tenets of their own faith themselves."
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