irony Quotes and Quotations
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irony Quotes and Quotations
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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 | top
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Irony is the hygiene of the mind. Elizabeth Bibesco | top
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There is not much irony when people are being happy on screen. Carter Burwell | top
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Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world takes everything at face value. Doug Coupland | top
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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 | top
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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed. Frederick Douglass | top
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Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom. Anatole France | top
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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 | top
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My book has a very simple surface, but there are layers of irony and paradox all the way through it. Mark Haddon | top
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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive. Robert A. Heinlein | top
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Irony differentiates. Cynicism never does. Paul Horgan | top
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It could draw from a greater reservoir of freedom. The irony could develop an even greater ease. Elfriede Jelinek | top
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I think that you can fall into bad habits with comedy... It's a tightrope to stay true to the character, true to the irony, and allow the irony to happen. Ben Kingsley | top
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Certainly, it seems true enough that there's a good deal of irony in the world... I mean, if you live in a world full of politicians and advertising, there's obviously a lot of deception. Kenneth Koch | top
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Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves. Karl Kraus | top
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Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it. Charles Lamb | top
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The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of probably my best poetry. Philip Levine | top
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I was not interested in irony; I wanted to emphasize the primacy of the idea in making art. Sol LeWitt | top
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My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch. Jack Nicholson | top
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We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power. Manuel Puig | top
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Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding. Agnes Repplier | top
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Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel | top
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Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel | top
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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 | top
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Which is a wonderful irony, I have property there. I go back every chance I get. One of the main reasons I actually wrote the book, agreed to write it having never wanted to do that in my life, very intimidating by the way to write a book. Sela Ward | top
