Any one watching keenly the stealthy convergence of human lots, sees a slow preparation of effects from one life on another, which tells like a calculated irony on the indifference or the frozen stare with which we look at our unintroduced neighbour.

-Eliot, George pseudonym of  MaryAnn Evans
^2  Middlemarch, bk.1, ch.11.

During my seven years in office,I was in love with seventeen million French women† I know this declaration will inspire irony and that English language readers will find it very French.

-Giscard d'Estaing,Vale¤  ry
  Le Pouvoir et la  vie.