"The Book of History is the Bible of Irony."

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Source : George Saintsbury, Oliver Elton, Adam Blyth Webster (1945). “George Saintsbury: The Memorial Volume : a New Collection of His Essays and Papers”

George Saintsbury

#Book Quotes #Irony Quotes

“A "communist/socialist/progressive" is an oxymoron, like an "atheist/evangelical Christian/Muslim."”

Source : Source: www.newyorker.com
“If I was a criminal, stationery stores and bakeries would be the two kinds of places I would concentrate on.”
“The most important step of all is the first step. Start something.”
“An eternity of wishing to speak directly to my Creator - I thought in despair - and this is how He finally contacts me? Through AOL Instant Messenger?”
“Comedy is king. It has to be.”
“Nobody had ever told me junk food was bad for me. Four years of medical school, and four years of internship and residency, and I never thought anything was wrong with eating sweet rolls and doughnuts, and potatoes, and bread, and sweets.”

Source : "What the doctor ordered" by William Leith, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2003.
“Have you ever wondered, perhaps, why opinions which the majority of people quite naturally hold are, if anyone dares express them publicly, denounced as 'controversial, 'extremist', 'explosive', 'disgraceful', and overwhelmed with a violence and venom quite unknown to debate on mere political issues? It is because the whole power of the aggressor depends upon preventing people from seeing what is happening and from saying what they see.”
“You'll do what you think you want to do, or what you think you ought to do. If you're very lucky, luckier than anybody I know, the two will coincide.”

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