Verbal Irony

Famous quotes containing the words verbal and/or irony:

“A verbal contract isn’t worth the paper it is written on.”
—Samuel Goldwyn (1882–1974)

“Irony, forsooth! Guard yourself, Engineer, from the sort of irony that thrives up here; guard yourself altogether from taking on their mental attitude! Where irony is not a direct and classic device of oratory, not for a moment equivocal to a healthy mind, it makes for depravity, it becomes a drawback to civilization, an unclean traffic with the forces of reaction, vice and materialism.”
—Thomas Mann (1875–1955)