#irony

The man might have died in a fit; but then the jewels are missing," mused the Inspector, "Ha! I have a theory. These flashes come upon me at times... What do you think of this, Holmes? Sholto was, on his own confession, with his brother last night. The brother died in a fit, on which Sholto walked off the treasure! How's that?" "On which the dead man very considerately got up and locked the door on the inside," said Holmes. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#irony #murder #mystery #sherlock #sherlock-holmes

God, what a ghastly enterprise to be in, though--and what an odd way to achieve success. I'm an exhibitionist who wants to hide, but is unsuccessful at hiding; therefore, somehow I succeed. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#artist #exhibition #irony #persona #success

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, a medley of extemporanea, And love is a thing that can never go wrong, and I am Marie of Romania. ↗

— Dorothy Parker

#life

Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony. ↗

— Lionel Trilling

#generate #humor #impossible #irony #little

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#irony #neither #sarcasm

The irony here is this administration is spending more money on climate change research and development than any administration in all the rest of the industrialized world combined. ↗

— Christine Todd Whitman

#any #change #climate #climate change #combined

I was not interested in irony; I wanted to emphasize the primacy of the idea in making art. ↗

— Sol LeWitt

#emphasize #i #idea #interested #irony

The Academy Awards ceremony is designed to be without irony, but Chris Rock supplied it anyway with filmed movie-theater interviews with black men and women who had never heard of the movies nominated for Best Picture. ↗

— Suzanne Fields

#academy awards #anyway #awards #best #best picture

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#anyone #gets #hardly #irony #life

It is sometimes easier to be happy if you don't know everything. ↗

— Alexander McCall Smith

#irony #knowledge #beauty