Top Irony Quotes
Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Irony differentiates. Cynicism never does.
Paul Horgan
Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
Agnes Repplier
Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
My book has a very simple surface, but there are layers of irony and paradox all the way through it.
Mark Haddon
Steven Soderbergh 
Charles Baudelaire 
Steve Carlton 
Morgan Freeman 
Michael J. Fox 
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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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The problem is that once the rules of art are debunked, and once the unpleasant realities the irony diagnoses are revealed and diagnosed, "then" what do we do?
David Foster Wallace
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You know the great irony is that people think you have to have money to enjoy fine food, which is a shame.
Ted Allen
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But the irony is that because the band isn't the focus any more, it allows me the chance to enjoy being a member of Def Leppard much more.
Rick Allen
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Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.
Anatole France
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Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.
Lionel Trilling
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The grand irony, however, is that Southern segregation was not brought to an end, nor redneck violence dramatically reduced, by violence.
Stanley Crouch
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I was not interested in irony; I wanted to emphasize the primacy of the idea in making art.
Sol LeWitt
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