Zitat von Jonathan Stroud (über Sarkasmus, Ironie)

"Really?"
"No. I'm being ironic. Or is it sarcastic? I can never remember."
"Irony's cleverer, so you're probably being sarcastic."

Jonathan Stroud in Lockwood & Co. - 1: Die Seufzende Wendeltreppe

Sarkasmus Ironie

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"Well," Lockwood said, "if you judge success by the number of enemies you make, that was a highly successful evening."

Jonathan Stroud in Lockwood & Co. - 2: Der Wispernde Schädel

Dave: "You're not our leader."
Lucy: "No, but I know what I'm doing, which is a nice alternative."

Jonathan Stroud in Lockwood & Co. - 4: Das Flammende Phantom

Lockwood: "Never touch a mummified body part if you don't know where it's been. That's my motto."
George: "Holds true with unmummified ones too. That's the motto I live by."

Jonathan Stroud in Lockwood & Co. - 4: Das Flammende Phantom

According to some, heroic deaths are admirable things. I've never been convinced by this argument, mainly because, no matter how cool, stylish, composed, unflappable, manly, or defiant you are, at the end of the day you're also dead. Which is a little too permanent for my liking.

Jonathan Stroud in Bartimäus - 3: Die Pforte des Magiers

Helden

It was Nathaniel's boundless capacity for stating the obvious that made him so charmingly human.

Jonathan Stroud in Bartimäus - 3: Die Pforte des Magiers

It was a time of beginnings and a time of endings.

Jonathan Stroud in Lockwood & Co. - 5: Das Grauenvolle Grab

Stop worrying about the past. The past is for ghosts. We've all done things that we regret. It's what's ahead of us that counts.

Jonathan Stroud in Lockwood & Co. - 1: Die Seufzende Wendeltreppe

"I warn you," the boy went on. "I am a magician of great power. I control many terrifying entities. This being you see before you" - here I rolled my shoulders back and puffed my chest up menacingly - "is but the meanest and least impressive of my slaves." (Here I slumped my shoulders and stuck my stomach out.)

Jonathan Stroud in Bartimäus - 2: Das Auge des Golem

Making tea is a ritual that stops the world from falling in on you.

Jonathan Stroud in Lockwood & Co. - 4: Das Flammende Phantom

Tee

I wasn't pretty, but as my mother once said, prettiness wasn't my profession.

Jonathan Stroud in Lockwood & Co. - 1: Die Seufzende Wendeltreppe

He was transfixed at the sight of the lords and ladies of his realm running about like demented chickens.

Jonathan Stroud in Bartimäus - 1: Das Amulett von Samarkand

In my eyes, refusing cake is an immoral act.

Jonathan Stroud in Lockwood & Co. - 4: Das Flammende Phantom

Kuchen & Torten

One magician demanded I show him an image of the love of his life. I rustled up a mirror.

Jonathan Stroud in Bartimäus - 1: Das Amulett von Samarkand

Spiegel

I don't know how old the man was... but he was definitely closer to coffin than crib.

Jonathan Stroud in Lockwood & Co. - 3: Die Raunende Maske

Despite his crimped shirts and flowing mane (or perhaps because of them) I had seen no evidence as yet that Nathaniel even knew what a girl was. If he'd ever met one, chances are they'd both have run screaming in opposite directions.

Jonathan Stroud in Bartimäus - 2: Das Auge des Golem

Ambition is all very well, my lad, but you must cloak it.

Jonathan Stroud in Bartimäus - 1: Das Amulett von Samarkand

A dozen more questions occurred to me. Not to mention twenty-two possible solutions to each one, sixteen resulting hypotheses and counter-theorems, eight abstract speculations, a quadrilateral equation, two axioms, and a limerick. That's raw intelligence for you.

Jonathan Stroud in Bartimäus - 3: Die Pforte des Magiers

Fragen & Antworten

By now, in his mid to late teens, he might just about have passed for a man. When seen from behind. At a distance. On a very dark night.

Jonathan Stroud in Bartimäus - 3: Die Pforte des Magiers

And then, as if written by the hand of a bad novelist, an incredible thing happened.

Jonathan Stroud in Bartimäus - 1: Das Amulett von Samarkand

To my astonishment I saw him standing at a table with Kitty Jones. It was the Kitty Jones bit that was astonishing. Not the table. Though it was very nicely polished.

Jonathan Stroud in Bartimäus - 3: Die Pforte des Magiers

"Is it just me," Kipps said, "or does that boy need punching?"
"It's not just you."

Jonathan Stroud in Lockwood & Co. - 4: Das Flammende Phantom

"Have you a name?"
"A name?" I cried. "I have MANY names! I am Bartimaeus! I am Sakhr al-Jinni! I am N'gorso the Mighty and the Serpent of Silver Plumes!"
I paused dramatically. The young man looked blank. "Nope never heard of you. Now if you'll just-"

Jonathan Stroud in Bartimäus - 2: Das Auge des Golem

"Looks?" the skull said. "Who cares about that? It's superficial. Outward appearance doesn't interest me at all. Why do you think I hang around with you?" It chuckled. "Insult aside, that's just one way in which I'm superior to every one of you, except for Cubbins."

Jonathan Stroud in Lockwood & Co. - 5: Das Grauenvolle Grab

"It wasn't the body," he said. "I've seen worse things in our fridge."

Jonathan Stroud in Lockwood & Co. - 2: Der Wispernde Schädel

Hey, we've all got problems, chum. I'm overly talkative. You look like a field of buttercups in a suit.

Jonathan Stroud in Bartimäus - 2: Das Auge des Golem

Minor magicians take pains to fit this traditional wizardly bill. By contrast, the really powerful magicians take pleasure in looking like accountants.

Jonathan Stroud in Bartimäus - 1: Das Amulett von Samarkand

Hexen & Zauberer

"Much has happened since last we met, Bartimaeus," he went on. "Do you remember how we parted?"
"No." I did.
"You set light to me, old friend. Struck a match and left me burning in a copse."
The crow shifted uneasily beneath the cleaver."That's a gesture of endearment in some cultures. Some hug, some kiss, some set each other on fire in small patches of woodland."

Jonathan Stroud in Bartimäus - 3: Die Pforte des Magiers

"Plan F, we follow Plan F, right now."
"Is that the one where we run away?"
"Not at all. It's the one where we beat a dignified emergency retreat."

Jonathan Stroud in Lockwood & Co. - 2: Der Wispernde Schädel

Jabor finally appeared at the top of the stairs, sparks of flame radiating from his body and igniting the fabric of the house around him. He caught sight of the boy, reached out his hand and stepped forward.
And banged his head nicely on the low-slung attic door.

Jonathan Stroud in Bartimäus - 1: Das Amulett von Samarkand

Burned and squashed to death in a silver vat of soup. There must be worse ways to go. But not many.

Jonathan Stroud in Bartimäus - 3: Die Pforte des Magiers

Nothing could keep me from you. Nothing in life or Death...

Jonathan Stroud in Lockwood & Co. - 3: Die Raunende Maske

It was one of those moments when a great Don't Care wave hits you, and you float off on it, head back, looking at the sky.

Jonathan Stroud in Lockwood & Co. - 1: Die Seufzende Wendeltreppe

Erwachsene sind sowieso ziemlich nutzlos. Denen fehlt irgendwie das Gefühl und sie stehen im Weg.

To be honest, adults are pretty useless. 'Cause of their lack of sensitivity. They just get in the way.

Lucy Carlyle in Lockwood & Co. - Staffel 1 Episode 1

At Lockwood & Co., George was famous for not being able to throw or catch with any accuracy. Back in the kitchen at Portland Row, even the casual passing out of fruit or bags of chips became an exercise fraught with danger.

Jonathan Stroud in Lockwood & Co. - 4: Das Flammende Phantom

It was higher and shriller than Holly's, so we knew that it was Kipps.

Jonathan Stroud in Lockwood & Co. - 5: Das Grauenvolle Grab

This was classic Lockwood. Friendly, considerate, empathetic. My personal impulse would have been to slap the girl soundly around the face and boot her moaning backside out into the night. Which is why he's the leader, and I'm not. Also why I have no female friends.

Jonathan Stroud in Lockwood & Co. - 2: Der Wispernde Schädel

What, are you queuing now? Just how British are you people? Don't just stand in line! Kill somebody!

Jonathan Stroud in Lockwood & Co. - 4: Das Flammende Phantom

Well, when you're being held at gunpoint by a geriatric madman in a metal skirt, you've kind of hit rock bottom anyway. It can't really get much worse.

Jonathan Stroud in Lockwood & Co. - 1: Die Seufzende Wendeltreppe

Let's have the baddish one first,' George said. 'I prefer my misery to come at me in stages, so I can acclimatize on the way.

Jonathan Stroud in Lockwood & Co. - 5: Das Grauenvolle Grab

A warm feeling filled me. It was made of tea and biscuits and sudden gratitude.

Jonathan Stroud in Lockwood & Co. - 4: Das Flammende Phantom

Leonard: "Herrgott noch eins, Sheldon, muss ich jedesmal mein Sarkasmusschild hochhalten, wenn ich mal den Mund aufmache?"
Sheldon: "Du hast ein Sarkasmusschild?"

Leonard: "For God's sake, Sheldon, do I have to... hold up a sarcasm sign every time I open my mouth?"
Sheldon: "You have a sarcasm sign?"

Sheldon Cooper in The Big Bang Theory - Staffel 1 Episode 2

Sarkasmus

What? Scott, come on. I'm 147 pounds of pale skin and fragile bone, okay? Sarcasm is my only defense.

Stiles Stilinski in Teen Wolf

Sarkasmus

Sarkasmus ist das, was entsteht, wenn sich Intelligenz und Erfolg nicht die Waage halten.

Oliver Hassencamp

Sarkasmus

Ironie ist das Körnchen Salz, das das Aufgetischte überhaupt erst genießbar macht.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Humor Ironie

Ich hab' mich bisschen geärgert, als ich bei Ernst Jünger gelesen habe, "ein Gott braucht keine Ironie." Dann viel mir ein, dass ich kein Gott bin, dann war ich wieder entspannt.

Harald Schmidt - Mai 2015

Ernst Jünger Ironie

Sutton: "Great for Jane, but didn't we stop saying diva like two years ago?"
Kat: "Oh, we're back to saying it ironically."
Sutton: "Our generation is exhausting."

Sutton Brady-Hunter in The Bold Type

Ironie

I had a chance at him now. Things were a bit more even. He knew my name, I knew his. He had six years' experience, I had five thousand and ten. That was the kind of odds that you could do something with.

Jonathan Stroud in Bartimäus - 1: Das Amulett von Samarkand

Watch where you leave your victims! I stubbed my toe on that.

Jonathan Stroud in Bartimäus - 1: Das Amulett von Samarkand

"I wanted to wake you straightaway, but I knew I had to wait several hours to ensure you were safely recovered."
"What! How long has it been?"
"Five minutes. I got bored."

Jonathan Stroud in Bartimäus - 2: Das Auge des Golem

Zitat von Jonathan Stroud (über Sarkasmus, Ironie)

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