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Ironically Quotes (page 14)

Death stripes away many things, especially when it arrives at a temperature hot enough to vaporize iron ... The immortal remains of Brother Watchtower watched the dragon flap away into the fog .... Terry Prachett
Evelyn Waugh quote: "Free as air; that's what they say- "free as air". Now they..."
Free as air; that's what they say- "free as air". Now they bring me my air in an iron barrel. Evelyn Waugh
Victor Hugo quote: "Could the word ‘iron’ be the root from which ‘irony’ is derived?"
Could the word ‘iron’ be the root from which ‘irony’ is derived? Victor Hugo
My mother's last word to me clanks inside me like an iron bell that someone beats at dinnertime: love, love, love, love, love. Cheryl Strayed
Adelbert von Chamisso quote: "What use would wings be to a man bound in iron fetters? They..."
What use would wings be to a man bound in iron fetters? They would only drive him to even greater despair. Adelbert von Chamisso
Though her husband often went on business trips, she hated to be left alone."I've solved your problem," he said. "I've bought you a St. Bernard. Its name is Great Reluctance. Now, when I go away, you shall know that I am leaving you with Great Reluctance!"She hit him with a waffle iron. Charles M. Schulz
Upstream, Arkansas and Ohio have their bottomlands, too, populated by a jaundiced and hungry-looking race, prone to fevers, whose eyes gleam at the sight of stone and iron, for they know only sand and driftwood and muddy water. Jorge Luis Borges
Castiza: "False! I defy you both! I have endured you with an ear of fire; Your tongues have struck hot irons on my face! Mother, come from that poisonous woman there."Gratiana: "Where?"Castiza: "Do you not see her? She's too inward then. Thomas Middleton
The iron tongue of Midnight hathtold twelve lovers, to bed; 'tisalmost fairy time. I fear weshall outstep the coming mornas much as we this night over-watch'd. William Shakespeare
We split a bottle of Norman cider. Not everybody sells Norman cider by the bottle. "Has a European feel" Susan said."That sounds terrific" I said. "Can I have one?"Susan grinned at me. "How did you ever get to be so big without growing up?" she said."Iron self-control" I said. Robert B. Parker
Isaac Babel quote: "No iron can stab the heart with such force as a period put..."
No iron can stab the heart with such force as a period put just at the right place. Isaac Babel
Toni Morrison quote: "if they put an iron circle around your neck I will bite it away"
if they put an iron circle around your neck I will bite it away Toni Morrison
Lawrence Ferlinghetti quote: "I have seen giraffes in junglejimstheir necks like lovewound..."
I have seen giraffes in junglejimstheir necks like lovewound around the iron circumstances of the world. Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Nothing he had brought to it of his nearest comparison, Raby with its thatch'd and benevolent romance of serfdom, had at all prepar'd him for the iron Criminality of the Cape,-- the publick Executions and Whippings, the open'd flesh, the welling blood, the beefy contented faces of those whites.... Yet is Dixon certain, as certain as the lightness he feels now, lightness premonitory of Flying, that far worse happen'd here, to these poor People, as the blood flew and the Children cried,-- that... Thomas Pynchon
When one watches some tired hack on the platform mechanically repeating the familiar phrases - bestial atrocities, iron heel, blood-stained tyranny, free peoples of the world, stand shoulder to shoulder - one often has a curious feeling that one is not watching a live human being but some kind of dummy, the appropriate noises are coming out of his larynx, but his brain is not involved George Orwell

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