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Irony is jesting behind hidden gravity.
Irony is jesting behind hidden gravity.
What I lack in decorum, I make up for with an absence of tact.
What I lack in decorum, I make up for with an absence of tact.
Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. read more
Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous, when you think about it.
A play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate ignorance-you set free the concealed irony, the deadly read more
A play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate ignorance-you set free the concealed irony, the deadly joke.
Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.
Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.
My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch
My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch
It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished read more
It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.
Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.
Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.
