18 Quotes Tagged: ironic

All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.

The greatest enemy of a good plan is the dream of a perfect plan

Isn't it ironic that a nightmare can masquerade as a dream?

Looking up at the stars, I know quite well
That, for all they care, I can go to hell,
But on earth indifference is the least
We have to dread from man or beast.

People are ruined by challenged economic lives. But they are ruined by wealth as well because they lose their ambition and they lose their pride and they lose their sense of self-worth

Zoe loved Trancas's mother. She respected her exhausted and ironic hope for rebirth.

I'm bad and I'm going to hell, and I don't care. I'd rather be in hell than anywhere where you are.

If I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient.

Never ask an elf for help; they might decide your better off dead, eh?

And a beautiful world we live in, when it is possible, and when many other such things are possible, and not only possible, but done — done, see you! — under that sky there, every day.

For other people, I can't speak - but, personally, I haven't gotten wise on anything. Certainly, I've been through this and that; and when it happens again, I say to myself, Here it is again. But that doesn't seem to help me. In my opinion, I, personally, have gotten steadily sillier and sillier - and that's a fact.

Son, only a pimp in a Louisiana whore- house carries pearl-handled revolvers. These are ivory.

George: Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Martha: I am, George. I am.

Gano muchísima pasta. Tengo que ganar muchísima pasta para untar a los tipos a los que tengo que untar para ganar muchísima pasta y untar así a los tipos que tengo que untar.

It was the essence of life to disbelieve in death for one's self, to act as if life would continue forever. And life had to act also as if little issues were big ones. To take a realistic attitude toward life and death meant that one lapsed into unreality. Into insanity. It was ironic that the only way to keep one's sanity was to ignore that one was in an insane world or to act as if the world were sane.