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British American author and journalist 1949–2011Related quotes
Then and Now : A Novel (1946), p. 136
“Irony, forsooth! Guard yourself, Engineer, from the sort of irony that thrives up here”
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.
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.
“Irony is the glory of slaves.”
“Irony is a qualification of subjectivity.”
1840s, On the Concept of Irony with Continual Reference to Socrates (1841)
Source: Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
Jesus and Yahweh: the names divine (2005), p 10.