Adrian Anthony Gill Quotes

Lots of English people say exactly the opposite of what they mean.

I can be a very sarcastic person, and sometimes people take every word I say literally.

The hardest portion of English, I must say it: Idioms.

The exact meaning of irony is so narrow that the word is hardly worth using; in its broad, current definition, it's a euphemism for sarcasm. 'I'm not being sarcastic; I'm being ironic.' No, you're not. You're evading the responsibility for being sarcastic.

'Irony' is such an over-used word.

Irony is one of my favorite aspects of life.

Irony has seeped into the felt of any fedora hat I have ever owned - not out of any wish of mine, but out of necessity. A fedora hat worn by me without the necessary protective irony would eat through my head and kill me.

The marvelous thing about a joke with a double meaning is that it can only mean one thing.

There are elements of irony in my work, of course.

Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.

The funniest line in English is 'Get it?' When you say that, everyone chortles.

I say 'as it were' or 'so to speak' too often because puns and double entendres keep insinuating themselves into my consciousness as I'm talking.

I was the class innuendist.

The English say, Yours Truly, and mean it. The Italians say, I kiss your feet, and mean, I kick your head.

Take it not amiss, O speech, that I borrow weighty words, and later try hard to make them seem light.

Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says that one can actually say what one means.

A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.

If you try to be funny, you're not being funny.

Everything I say is a joke. I am a joke myself.

Americans are not renowned for having a sense of irony.

I'm shameless, and I love a pun. There's a lot of Beth puns.

Gag me with a spoon!

Irony is a great tool to deal with things. It's an intellectualization, a way to go above things, which can work.

Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge.

I like the irony in my work.