Irony

“The life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.”

“The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science.”

“We are the hollow men / We are the stuffed men / Leaning together / Headpiece filled with straw.”

“The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.”

“History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.”

“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”

“Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.”

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.”

“Personally of course I regret everything.”

“The diminutive chains of habit are seldom heavy enough to be felt, till they are too strong to be broken.”

“There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.”

“The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.”

“I'm nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody too? Then there's a pair of us!”

“Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow”

“The more things change, the more they stay the same.”

“Irony is dead, said the corpse.”

“An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.”

“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”

“Hell is other people.”