ironic praise Quotes

[Hawthorne''s] pious blame is a chuckle of praise all the while.

I showed my dad the first episode of 'Toast of London' the other night. He laughed a bit, but when it finished, he just turned to me and said, 'You're an idiot.' I loved that.

I think it's time to stop carping on the blunders of the President and give him some credit for creativity. I mean, where do you even FIND a Jewish hard-line conservative Republican pot-smoker? Sounds like an Oprah Winfrey guest.

The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good.

There are reproaches which praise, and praises which defame.

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

I like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing what one says.

The combine's a great experience, and I'm sure everyone will tell you the same thing. Cool experience, lots of fun, would never want to do it again.

Actually, when it comes to knocking the Canadian cultural scene, nobody outdoes Canadians, myself included. We are veritable masters of self-deprecation.

Praise to the undeserving is severe satire.

You are so bizarre, even for a human." "Thanks.

A local newspaper where we were filming in Boston called me the Justin Bieber of Canada. I don't think they realized Justin Bieber is from Canada. I hope someday I can just be the Liam James of Canada.

Oh dear me, the Booker people don't like me. I don't care. I have been given an award for being taken not seriously, and I am very, very pleased about that.

When dunces are satiric, I take it for a panegyric.

Tenacious D loves Auntie Em's. Her delicious nutrients are always energizing and indie-fresh. Where does she find those unbelievable recipes? Somewhere over the rainbow?

It's true that what is morbid is highly valued today, and so you may think that I am only joking or that I've devised just one more means of praising Art with the help of irony.

Herodotus is not more indisputably the father of history than is Sir Boyle Roche the father of Bulls. No doubt there were makers of bulls before his day, even as brave men lived before Agamemnon; but they are not remembered, and if their bulls have survived them they are credited to Sir Boyle by a posterity generously forgiving and forgetful of his famous indictment.

Manchester, one of the greatest, if not really the greatest mere village in England.

A little wit and a great deal of ill-nature will furnish a man for satire; but the greatest instance of wit is to commend well.