Top Irony Quotes
Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
Agnes Repplier
Irony differentiates. Cynicism never does.
Paul Horgan
Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
It's no small irony that the government inevitably and invariably ends up promoting precisely that which they would most like to repress.
Jock Sturges
Carter Burwell 
George Saunders 
Ted Allen 
Frederick Douglass 
Barbara Kruger 
Anatole France 
Cliff Stearns 
Michael Musto 
E. O. Wilson 
Michael J. Fox All Irony Quotes
Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.
Barbara Kruger 
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The irony here is this administration is spending more money on climate change research and development than any administration in all the rest of the industrialized world combined.
Christine Todd Whitman
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We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power.
Manuel Puig
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The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates.
David Foster Wallace
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I think that you can fall into bad habits with comedy... It's a tightrope to stay true to the character, true to the irony, and allow the irony to happen.
Ben Kingsley
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Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world takes everything at face value.
Doug Coupland
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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
Frederick Douglass
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Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.
E. O. Wilson
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My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch.
Jack Nicholson
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Popular Irony Authors
Mason CooleySamuel ButlerDoug CouplandW. Somerset MaughamKarl Wilhelm Friedrich SchlegelCharles BaudelaireManuel PuigMorgan FreemanKarl KrausAnatole FranceBen KingsleyJack NicholsonJock SturgesCharles LambCarter Burwell
Robert A. HeinleinMark HaddonFrank ShorterFrederick DouglassSuzanne FieldsBarbara KrugerSteven SoderberghStanley CrouchAtom EgoyanJessamyn WestE. O. WilsonCliff StearnsTed AllenMichael J. FoxDavid Foster Wallace
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