Sentences with phrase «facetious remarks»

One general problem with interpreting facetious remarks is to distinguish between things said in irony and things said at face value.

I sympathize with a facetious remark of one theologian who said that the Trinity is a doctrine which, if a man does not believe it he is sure to lose his soul, but if he tries to understand it he is sure to lose his wits.

(Yes, that is a facetious remark)