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
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Jack Nicholson 
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The Academy Awards ceremony is designed to be without irony, but Chris Rock supplied it anyway with filmed movie-theater interviews with black men and women who had never heard of the movies nominated for Best Picture.
Suzanne Fields 
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The accident was a horrible thing - but that horrible thing made Chris, at the end of his life, Superman. It's a happy irony if there is such a thing. I'm proud to have known him.
Morgan Freeman
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The irony of our social group is that so often everyone feels this, but there's no company whatsoever in that feeling. Think of Pound's great emphasis, the way out is via the door.
Robert Creeley
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I have wit in my work and a sense of humor, but I do not use irony in any way.
John Zorn
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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
W. Somerset Maugham
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Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it.
Charles Lamb
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Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves.
Karl Kraus
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Popular Irony Authors
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Robert A. HeinleinMark HaddonFrank ShorterFrederick DouglassSuzanne FieldsBarbara KrugerSteven SoderberghStanley CrouchAtom EgoyanJessamyn WestE. O. WilsonCliff StearnsTed AllenMichael J. FoxDavid Foster Wallace
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