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Last updated on November 19, 2024.
I am a connoisseur of fine irony. 'Tis a bit like fine wine, but it has a better bite.
I love the French for their sarcasm, their irony. I love them for their bad moods.
Let neither tear nor reproach besmirch this declaration of the mastery of God who, with magnificent irony, granted me both the gift of books and the night.
England and Denmark have a sense of irony and a darker sense of humour that you don't necessarily find in Germany and Sweden.
Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do
Of course the 19th century remained in blissful ignorance of post-modern irony, and the dime novels were made without end.
Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.
I am someone who takes everything very literally. I simply do not understand irony, a defect I have had ever since I was able to think independently.
I was a bit of a humour black sheep. I would make these jokes full of irony and dark cynicism and that just didn't work when I was seven, people did not laugh.
No sense of the irony of human experience, that we are the highest form of life on earth, and yet ineffably sad because we know what no other animal knows, that we must die.
The thing that I come across is that people think that I might actually be super aggressive, want-to-fight type in real life. The irony is that that's just not true, at all.
When the Beatles were on 'Ed Sullivan,' life went from black and white to color like in 'The Wizard of Oz' - and the irony I'm in the band Toto is not lost on me.
The irony of good customer service is that over time it will bring in more new customers than promotions and price slashing ever did!
Life's irony is that as soon as worldly goods and worldly success are of no concern to you, the way is open for them to flow to you.
I always thought the biggest failing of Americans was their lack of irony. They are very serious there! Naturally, there are exceptions... the Jewish, Italian, and Irish humor of the East Coast.
For years, young adults have adopted extremely liberal world views in their attempts to be different, ultimately failing to see the irony that they've all become the same.
At the best, sarcasms, bitter irony, scathing wit, are a sort of swordplay of the mind. You pink your adversary, and he is forthwith dead; and then you deserve to be hung for it.
Now that’s true poetic irony. I rush into battle to defend the fair name of Rose Larkin, and what does she do but fetch Robert to stop me.
I don't like irony and sarcasm very much. But I do like it when you think someone is telling you a joke, and then you discover it's serious.
The irony is, the advertising industry knows everyone hates what they produce. This is why they keep looking for new ways to force people to stay tuned.
Irony, perfect definition: that for which I want to possess it, I would no longer want once I possessed it.
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?
There has to be irony, both in design and in the objects. I see around me a professional disease of taking everything too seriously. One of my secrets is to joke all the time
During my theatre days, I was more comfortable doing comedy. It's such an irony. I have always played a buffoon on stage, and yet I don't have any comic role to my credit.
We didn't understand irony yet in the '80s; we just kind of existed at face value, so there was no nerd cool yet because the digital revolution was still in its infancy.
With silent films, you're better off avoiding irony, because the spectator is your accomplice. It's this pact that leads to emotion being created.
There's something about Vonnegut's deadpan irony that I really like. And I like Borges' puzzle structure.
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.
The surest sign that two people no longer speak the same language is that both say ironic things to one another but that neither senses the irony.
Everyone is tearing each other apart in the name of their personal god. And the irony is, by definition, they're probably worshiping the same god.
Skype is a wonderful thing. The irony is that you never Skype when you're in the same country as someone.
Part of the irony of environmentalism is questing for solutions when you know you're part of the problem.
The irony is that in our decades, the combination of rationalism, asceticism, and individualism (the so-called Protestant Ethic) has produced precisely the system of boondoggling, luxury-consumption, and status.
Dangerously well’— what an irony is this: it expresses precisely the doubleness, the paradox, of feeling ‘too well
Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
We Americans only voted for George Bush to prove to the British that Americans understand irony. Unfortunately, it kinda backfired.
I like grit. I like love and death. I'm tired of irony.
(On The International Criminal Court) "For the victors of the Cold War to submit to an unelected, unaccountable, and almost certainly hostile body such as that envisaged would be the ultimate irony."
...his job was the very least important part of his life, never to be mentioned except in irony.
You can't top that remark for hypocrisy or the setting for irony. It isn't the middle class who write $32,500 checks. Those who do expect something in return. They've been getting it.
The irony is that the more unapologetically sexist men are in movies, the more women tend to be attracted to them in person.
Irony and pity are two good counselors: one, in smiling, makes life pleasurable; the other, who cries, makes it sacred.
Accept that there are things in this world we can never explain and life will be understandable. That is the irony of life. It is also the beauty of it.
Italics provide a wonderful advantage: you see, right away, that the words are in a rush. When something exists at a slant, you can't help but consider irony.
That is where the irony of the film comes off, in terms of the language it employs - where he tries desperately to be a 'TV Dad,' to give advice and it's so pat it becomes ridiculous.
I don't think readers of Mann have overlooked the fact that he was a great ironist, but they have tended to see the irony in particular parts of the novella, and to miss it in others.
The irony of Christmas is always upon the poor in heart; the mystery of the solstice is always upon the rest of us.
To drag a man in fetters into the grand illuminated temple of liberty, and call upon him to join you in joyous anthems, were inhuman mockery and sacrilegious irony.
I adore jokes. They're a theatrical contrivance, but the irony of all fiction is that you approach reality by avoiding it a bit; you spoof it a bit.
The surest sign of the estrangement of the opinions of two persons is when they both say something ironical to each other and neither of them feels the irony.
Irony is a great tool to deal with things. It's an intellectualization, a way to go above things, which can work.
What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around.
The irony is that, coming from a white-collar British background, I tend to play blue-collar Americans!
Irony is based on insecurity; people like to not like things because they don't understand them.
Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and a sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery.
United Nations peacekeepers are going all over the world spreading AIDS even while they're trying to bring peace. What a supreme irony.
Even now, the irony that so non-intellectual a man should choose to engage the Soviet Union on the battlefield of ideas has eluded most commentators and historians.
[But] we accept irony through a device called metaphor. And through that we grow and become deeper human beings.
Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.
The irony is, when people now compliment my ability to make something out of nothing on the football field, my mom is the one who's been doing so in real life all along.
