Modest Proposal Irony Quotes & Sayings

For tyrants, the lesson of the Reichstag fire is that one moment of shock enables an eternity of submission. For us, the lesson is that our natural fear and grief must not enable the destruction of our institutions. — Timothy Snyder

Psychologists have found that we are more likely, in looking back at our lives, to remember high points and dramatic shifts in far greater proportion than ongoing stretches of happiness or misery. — Sissela Bok

You had me," she whispered, cheeks flushing at the reminder. "I did," he agreed. "But the past isn't what matters. I live in the present, Genna. I live in the now. I had you, yeah, but what I want is to have you. — J.M. Darhower

The horror no less than the charm of real life consists precisely in the recurrent actualization of the inconceivable — Aldous Huxley

When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip; and the whip is intended for self-flagellation solely. — Truman Capote