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Humor e Ironia
George Bernard Shaw
Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
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Adlai Stevenson
[ Remark after he was defeated in the presidentialelection :] A funny thing happened to me on theway to the White House.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
What a satire, by the way, is that machine [Charles Babbage’s calculating machine] on the mere mathematician! A Frankenstein-monster, a thing without brains and without heart, too stupid to make a blunder; that turns out results like a corn-sheller, and never grows any wiser or better, though it grind a thousand bushels of them!
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Edmond de Goncourt
A delicate wit is a corruption which a nation takes a long time to acquire. It is only worn-out nations that possess it.
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E.M. Forster
He suddenly became shy and developed a conceited grin—the grin of the village yokel whose cricket score is mentioned before a stranger.
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Fiódor Dostoiévski
Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste- souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.
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Edmond de Goncourt
That which probably hears more stupidities than anything else in the world is a painting in a museum.
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E.M. Forster
A sentence begins quite simply, then it undulates and expands, parentheses intervene like quick-set hedges, the flowers of comparison bloom, and three fields off, like a wounded partridge, crouches the principal verb, making one wonder as one picks it up, poor little thing, whether after all it was worth such a tramp, so many guns, and such expensive dogs, and what, after all, is its relation to the main subject, potted so gaily half a page back, and proving finally to have been in the accusative case.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
It is the peculiarity of the bore that he is the last person to find himself out.
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Fiódor Dostoiévski
There is no idea, no fact, which could not be vulgarized and presented in a ludicrous light.
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William Burroughs
In the U.S. you have to be a deviant or exist in extreme boredom...Make no mistake all intellectuals are deviants in the U.S.
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Pedro de Alcântara
The trouble is that everyone talks about reforming others, and no one thinks about reforming himself.
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Kim Hubbard
Nothing is as irritating as the fellow who chats pleasantly while he's overcharging you.
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