
“I suppose that's one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.”
Letter Two (5 April 1903)
Letters to a Young Poet (1934)
“I suppose that's one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.”
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.
Source: The Phantom Tollbooth
"Letter to Hume Logan" April 22, 1958. Excerpted in 'Letters of Note' by Shaun Usher.
1950s