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
Jack Nicholson 
Lionel Trilling 
Ben Kingsley 
Sol LeWitt 
Roger Daltrey 
Michael Musto All Irony Quotes
This commitment to truth is something one senses more and more Americans yearning for, just as they are becoming more and more sophisticated at knowing when the truth is being obscured - an irony that seems to elude most of today's elected officials.
Michael Musto 
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The irony of the Supreme Court hearing on these cases last week and of the outright hostility that the Court has displayed against religion in recent years is that above the head of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court is a concrete display of the Ten Commandments.
Cliff Stearns
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Making a film that's supposed to be fun to watch is really hard - that's the weird irony of it.
Steven Soderbergh
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The irony of that is, what makes it kind of ironic, is when you do become successful as a professional athlete in particular, a lot of the young children who are emulating these stars do have a different perspective.
Frank Shorter
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Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.
Bill Nye
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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
Robert A. Heinlein
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I love the irony. I'm perceived as being really young and yet I have the clinical condition of an old man.
Michael J. Fox
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I love Sell Out, I think it's great. I love the jingles. The whole thing as an album is a wonderful piece of work. The cover. Everything about it. It's got humor, great songs, irony.
Roger Daltrey
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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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