Quote by Karl Kraus
Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on

Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves. – Karl Kraus

Other quotes by Karl Kraus

If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies. – Karl Kraus

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Imagination
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A woman occasionally is quite a serviceable substitute for masturbation. – Karl Kraus

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Sex
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Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots. – Karl Kraus

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Education
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Other Quotes from
Irony
category

So the struck eagle, stretchd upon the plain,
No more through rolling clouds to soar again,
Viewd his own feather on the fatal dart,
And wingd the shaft that quiverd in his heart. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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Irony

Irony is jesting behind hidden gravity. – John Weiss

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Irony

Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment. – Edwin P. Whipple

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Irony

Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time. – Friedrich Von Schlegel

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Irony

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My mom is not trying to live vicariously through me. – Victoria Justice

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mom

You see, I had been riding with the storm clouds, and had come to earth as rain, and it was drought that I had killed with the power that the Six Grandfathers gave me. – Black Elk

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power

Apathy is a sort of living oblivion. – Horace Greeley

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Apathy

I dont like these cold, precise, perfect people who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything. – Henry Ward Beecher

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Perfection