A sharp sense of the ironic can be the equivalent of the faith that
moves mountains. Far more quickly than reason or logic, irony can
penetrate rage and puncture self-pity.
-Moss Hart
A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of
humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.
-Jessamyn
West
And irony, oh the goddamed irony, that courses through the popular
culture like a cancer. If nothing is serious anymore, then there's
nothing to satirize.
-Berkeley Breathed
Britain and America are separated by the Irony Curtain.
-Dave Black
Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a
vein of it.
-Charles Lamb
From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent.
-H.P.
Lovecraft
I hate corporations and I'm not happy that they have taken over the film
business but on the same hand I find myself being the head of a
corporation. There's a certain irony there.
-George Lucas
If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom;
and the irony of it is that if it is comfort that it values more, it
will lose that too.
-W. Somerset Maugham
Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely
abundant chaos.
-Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Irony is a qualification of subjectivity.
-Søren Kierkegaard
Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the
same time.
-Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.
-Anatole
France
Irony is the glory of slaves.
-Czeslaw Milosz
It was announced Gloria Steinem was recently married at the home of a
lady friend named Wilma Mankiller, presumably in a bid by Ms. Steinem to
see if she could get The Guinness Book of Irony to implode.
-Norman
Liebmann
Men who retain irony are not to be trusted. They can't always resist an
impulse to tickle themselves.
-Taylor Caldwell
My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son of a bitch.
-Jack
Nicholson
Our universities are so determined to impose tolerance that they'll
expel you for saying what you think and never notice the irony.
-John
Perry Barlow
Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves.
-Karl
Kraus
Sufficiently advanced political correctness is indistinguishable from
irony.
-Erik Naggum
The irony is that in our decades, the combination of rationalism,
asceticism, and individualism (the so-called Protestant Ethic) has
produced precisely the system of boondoggling, luxury-consumption, and
status.
-Paul Goodman
The irony of man's condition is that the deepest need is to be free of
the anxiety of death and annihilation; but it is life itself which
awakens it, and so we must shrink from being fully alive.
-Ernest
Becker
The main business of a lawyer is to take the romance, the mystery, the
irony, the ambiguity out of everything he touches.
-Antonin Scalia
The real marriage of true minds is for any two people to possess a sense
of humor or irony pitched in exactly the same key, so that their joint
glances on any subject cross like interarching searchlights.
-Edith
Wharton
To dread irony is to fear reason.
-Sacha Guitry
We didn't need light and shade, irony or humor. An iconic Daltrey bellow
could convey an extrodinary range of human emotion; withering sadness,
self pity, loneliness, abandonment, spiritual desperation, the loss of
childhood, as well as the more obvious rage and frustration, joy and
triumph.
-Pete Townshend
When the government gives things names, you should keep your sense of
irony handy.
-Joseph Sobran
White Americans have a very unusual sense of history. They make it up as
they go along, constantly revising to suit their tastes in a manner that
would make Stalin blush. Very few of them saw any irony in the fact that
during a recent nasty Balkans conflict, when Uncle Sam intervened to
stop the Serbs from ethnically cleansing the Bosnians, the military
action was performed using Apache helicopter gunships. Helicopters named
after a people that had been ethnically cleansed in the United States
less than one hundred years previously. Sixteen lane highways across the
sacred burial grounds. Yee-hah.
-Craig Ferguson
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