“Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment.”
Edwin Percy Whipple (1819–1886) American writer
In Lectures on Subjects Connected with Literature and Life (1859), Lecture III : Wit and Humor, p. 102
“Nobody ever seemed quite clear whether the expression "drunk as a lord" should be taken as a compliment or an insult.”
A Chinaman in My Bath
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Orson Scott Card book Ender in Exile
Source: Ender in Exile
Peter Wessel Zapffe book The Last Messiah
The Last Messiah (1933) <br class="br">Source: trans. Peter Reed & David Rothenberg https://ia803202.us.archive.org/15/items/20200821_20200821_1659/OAP_Zapffe_Last_Messiah.pdf, page 8
Max Müller (1823–1900) German-born philologist and orientalist
Max Muller (Collected Works, Vol.II, p.91). Quoted in https://talageri.blogspot.com/2016/07/the-recorded-history-of-indo-european_27.html
“whether it is clear or unclear to you the universe is folding as it should”
Carolyn Mackler (1973) American writer
Source: Tangled
“Whether or not it is clear to you,
no doubt the universe is unfolding
as it should.”
Max Ehrmann (1872–1945) American writer, poet, and attorney
Source: Desiderata: A Poem for a Way of Life
Gregory Bateson (1904–1980) English anthropologist, social scientist, linguist, visual anthropologist, semiotician and cyberneticist
Source: Communication: The Social Matrix of Psychiatry, 1951, p. 238 cited in: William Rasch, Cary Wolfe (2000) Observing Complexity: Systems Theory and Postmodernity. p. 36
Tom Lehrer (1928) American singer-songwriter and mathematician
Source: That Was the Year That Was (1965), Liner notes
Susanna Kaysen book Girl, Interrupted
Source: Girl, Interrupted (1994)
