Top 7 Verbal Irony Examples In Literature Quotes
#1. If I had to create a god, I would lend him a "slow understanding": a kind of drip-by-drip understanding of problems. People who understand quickly frighten me.
Roland Barthes
#2. It is the memory of past happiness that makes the present so intolerable.
Fay Weldon
#3. The New Englanders, by their canting, whining and insinuating tricks, have persuaded the rest of the colonies that the government is going to make absolute slaves of them.
Nicholas Cresswell
#4. The problem is that everywhere the gas drilling industry goes, a trail of water contamination, air pollution, health concerns and betrayal of basic American civic and community values follows.
Josh Fox
#5. 'Alpha' is a very fast-moving book. It doesn't lend itself to laborious introspection and the navel-gazing that some stories can fall prey to.
Greg Rucka
#6. Go with polar bears, I say to myself. Polar bears at the North Pole. Baby polar bears scooting along after their mothers in the snow. Polar bears drinking Coca-Cola.
Cynthia Hand
#7. Cast a cold eye
on life, on death
Horseman pass by
W.B.Yeats
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