Irony Quotes

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.

My book has a very simple surface, but there are layers of irony and paradox all the way through it.

It could draw from a greater reservoir of freedom. The irony could develop an even greater ease.

Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it.

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.

I think I would explode in flames of irony if I were to option an idea that I was satirizing in a novel.

Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony.

Irony is the hygiene of the mind.

There is not much irony when people are being happy on screen.

People use irony as a defense mechanism.

And the irony is that they wrote better without access to my quotes.

Well, it'd certainly be fascinating if we discovered that gays were better at being married than heterosexuals are. Talk about irony.

Americans are not renowned for having a sense of irony.

Irony differentiates. Cynicism never does.

Humor is everywhere in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.

I like the irony in my work.

Irony is just honesty with the volume cranked up.

Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.

My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony.

Irony, I feel, is a very high form of morality.

It's no small irony that the government inevitably and invariably ends up promoting precisely that which they would most like to repress.

I don't embrace irony, but I do think it's a pre-existing condition; we manage it as best we can.

Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.