Fiction Novel Ironic Quotes & Sayings

Extremely self-conscious in its craft, in many ways The Hand of Ethelberta is an exploration of fiction as illusion, which involves parody of the conventions it employs; romance, melodrama and farce, and a rejection of realism for absurdist and surrealistic effects. The 'hand' of Ethelberta is an obvious, ironic allusion to courtship, and the sub-title, 'A Comedy in Chapters', suggests the novel's affinity with the conventions of Restoration and eighteenth-century comedy of manners. — Geoffrey Harvey

Nothing's too girly and nothing's too masculine. But I do love color, and maybe that's a little girly - especially pink. — Stacy London

Justine's virtue, in action, is the liberal lie in action, a good heart and an inadequate methodology. — Angela Carter

Some is more equal than others, as is well known. It ain't that your majority is outnumbered, you're just out-surrounded. — Walt Kelly

Secular music, do you say, belongs to the devil? Does it? Well, if it did I would plunder him for it, for he has no right to a single note of the whole seven. Every note, and every strain, and every harmony is divine, and belongs to us. — William Booth

Someone who seeks nothing but his own fate no longer has any companions, he stands quite alone and has only cold, universal space around him. — Hermann Hesse

Selim's first view of Europe was a vast, thick carpet of shit. — Sophie Hardach