From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent.
Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.
Quote Detail
Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.
Quick Answer
What this quote page tells you
This canonical quote page keeps the full saying, the attributed author, any linked work, and the topic tags together so the quote can be cited from one stable URL.
Related Quotes
More quote cards from the same area
Truth is the irony of fate.
It would be the irony of fate if my administration had to deal chiefly with foreign affairs.
She upset Billy simply by being his mother. She made him feel embarrased and ungrateful and weak because she had gone to so much trouble to give him life, and to keep that life going, and Billy didn't really like life at all.
Irony is Fate's most common figure of speech.
In league with being graced by greatness, prepare to be greeted, by all that is beneath you.