Oedipus Rex Verbal Irony Quotes & Sayings

They had slept like babies. Which proves how important it is for a man to return home, — V.C. Andrews

We live in very, very, very dangerous times. — Craig Shirley

I'm working myself to death. — Alan Ladd

I spent most of my childhood welded to my Atari 2600, until I got my first computer, a TRS-80. — Ernest Cline

Wealth, in his experience, was not something the people who had it were at all keen to see trickling anywhere. — Richard K. Morgan

She wore a dress Ronan thought looked like a lampshade. Whatever sort of lamp it belonged on, Gansey clearly wished he had one.
Ronan wasn't a fan of lamps. — Maggie Stiefvater

a good orgasm is definitely what the doctor ordered after the past few weeks. — Crystal Perkins

Alice Munro is a particular kind of short story writer in that she writes long, character-driven short stories. — Nell Freudenberger

Poverty and lack of education are ruining our planet. — Oscar Arias

Idealists and reformers all become executioners in their turn. The road to utopia ends with the steps of the scaffold, the endless moment of the guillotine. — Grant Morrison

A dancer on break approached him. She smiled. Each tooth was angled in a different direction, as if her mouth were the masterwork of a mad orthodontist.
"Hi," she said.
"Hi."
"You're really cute."
"I don't have any money."
She spun and walked away. Ah, romance. — Harlan Coben

It's not ignorance does so much damage; it's knowin' so derned much that ain't so. — Josh Billings

While in general I avoid the use of torture - torture locates the opponent and mobilizes resistance - the threat of torture is useful to induce in the subject the appropriate feeling of helplessness and gratitude to the interrogator for withholding it. And torture can be employed to advantage as a penalty when the subject is far enough along with the treatment to accept punishment as deserved. To this end I devised several forms of disciplinary procedure. One was known as the Switchboard. Electric drills that can be turned on at any time are clamped against the subject's teeth; and he is instructed to operate an arbitrary switchboard, to put certain connections in certain sockets in response to bells and lights. Every time he makes a mistake the drills are turned on for twenty seconds. The signals are gradually speeded up beyond his reaction time. Half an hour on the Switchboard and the subject breaks down like an overloaded thinking machine. — William S. Burroughs