439 Quotes About Ironic

He had not the makings of that honest man to whom success comes naturally.

I learned not long ago that Pechorin had died upon returning from Persia. This news made me very glad: it gave me the right to publish these notes, and I took the opportunity to put my name on someone else's work.

Dream big!But not so big that it becomes a mess, and you may never reach reality.

A dreammaker can't help but turn all of their experiences into dreams. It preserves their memories beyond their existence. - The Malwatch

I don't use big words to show off because it's ostentatious.

Un bon mot ne prouve rien.

He was one of the most supremely stupid men I have ever met. He taught me a great deal.

Well, what’s the meaning of that?’ I exclaimed, looking down on the street, empty again save for groups of white-clothed women, who talked eagerly to one another, gesticulating and pointing now towards our inn, now towards where the men had gone.‘Perhaps it’s their Parliament,’ suggested Denny; ‘or perhaps they’ve repented of their rudeness and are going to erect a triumphal arch.’ These conjectures, being obviously ironical, did not assist the matter, although they amused their author.

Phroso made no comment on this; and the moment I had said it I heard a voice below, a voice I knew very well.‘What’s the ladder here for, my friend?’ it asked.‘It enables one to ascend or descend, my lord,’ answered Kortes’s grave voice, without the least touch of irony.