“Truly the jaws of irony are agape!”

From the third book, "The Book of the Idiot"
The Pillow Book

Remarks at a White House luncheon (26 June 1954) <br class="br">Quoted in Churchill Urges Patience in Coping with Red Dangers, The New York Times, June 27, 1954 http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F00A10FE3458117A93C5AB178DD85F408585F9, <br class="br">Has been falsely attributed to Otto von Bismarck. <br class="br">But Churchill’s official biographer, Sir Martin Gilbert, speaking of this quote, noted that Churchill actually said, &quot;Meeting jaw to jaw is better than war.&quot; Four years later, during a visit to Australia, Harold Macmillan said the words usually—and wrongly—attributed to Churchill: “Jaw, jaw is better than war, war.” Credit: Harold Macmillan. <br class="br">Post-war years (1945–1955) <br class="br">Source: https://winstonchurchill.org/resources/quotes/quotes-falsely-attributed/

Second Week, First Day, Part iv. Compare: "Out of the jaws of death", William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act iii. Sc. 4.
La Seconde Semaine (1584)

On the first NeXT Computer, as quoted in The New York Times (8 November 1989)
1980s

Source: The Magic Mountain (1924), Ch. 5
Context: Irony, forsooth! Guard yourself, Engineer, from the sort of irony that thrives up here; guard yourself altogether from taking on their mental attitude! Where irony is not a direct and classic device of oratory, not for a moment equivocal to a healthy mind, it makes for depravity, it becomes a drawback to civilization, an unclean traffic with the forces of reaction, vice and materialism.

Source: Hitch-22: A Memoir

The Autobiography of a Sexually Emancipated Communist Woman (1926)

Gardons-nous de l'ironie en jugeant. De toutes les dispositions de l'esprit, l'ironie est la moins intelligente.
Notebook entry, February 24, 1848, cited from Les cahiers de Sainte-Beuve (Paris: Alphonse Lemerre, 1876) p. 75; Christopher Prendergast The Classic (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007) p. 244.