Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves

Quote by Karl Kraus

Topics: Irony Quotes

Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid.

Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid.

I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.

I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.

The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it...

The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it...

Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?

Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?

The world has become uglier since it began to look into a mirror every day;...

The world has become uglier since it began to look into a mirror every day;...

Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they...

Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they...

Hate must make a man productive. Otherwise one might as well love

Hate must make a man productive. Otherwise one might as well love

Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.

Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.

Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which...

Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which...

I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I...

I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I...

Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world.

Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world.

Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer...

Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer...

Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.

Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.

A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.

A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.

No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist.

No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist.

A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.

A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.

Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it.

Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it.

Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't...

Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't...

Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.

Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.

I don't like to meddle in my private affairs.

I don't like to meddle in my private affairs.