Humor e Ironia

Victor Hugo was a madman who thought he was Victor Hugo.

There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.

A sheep in sheep’s clothing.

NANCY ASTOR : If I were your wife I would put poison in your coffee!

I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

The ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.

Journalism largely consists in saying ‘Lord Jones Dead’ to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

A merry road, a mazy road, and such as we did tread

If you want to inspire confidence, give plenty of statistics.

Speak in French when you can’t think of the English for a thing.

‘Contrariwise,’ continued Tweedledee, ‘if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be: but as it isn’t, it ain’t. That’s logic.’

Curtsey while you’re thinking what to say. It saves time.

I’ll publish, right or wrong:

Society is now one polished horde,

The English winter—ending in July,

… That all-softening, overpowering knell,

Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter,

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four.

Doubtless the pleasure is as great

Love is a boy, by poets styled,

O wad some Pow’r the giftie gie us

Fair fa’ your honest, sonsie face,