Quotes of: Irony Keyword

I have wit in my work and a sense of humor, but I do not use irony in any way.

John Zorn

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

Lionel Trilling

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

Maurice Sendak

We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars.

Anatole Broyard

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.

Ridley Scott

One of the great ironies of the social media era is that some of the least social people in the world created it.

Sarah Lacy

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

Charles Lamb

Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.

Barbara Kruger

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

Jean Stafford

The irony is that the more unapologetically sexist men are in movies, the more women tend to be attracted to them in person.

Jon Favreau

The most dangerous irony is, people are angry with others because of their own incompetence.

Amit Kalantri

The irony was not lost on any of us that despite the theme there was a robot on the throne.

Duplex

Irony is the attendant of hope and the fuel of hope is innocence.

The Great War and Modern Memory

I was not interested in irony; I wanted to emphasize the primacy of the idea in making art.

Sol LeWitt

Fundamental belief consoled him for superficial irony.

The Mayor of Casterbridge

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

Fred Tomaselli

From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent.

Tales of H.P. Lovecraft

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

Elfriede Jelinek

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

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

Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved.

W. Somerset Maugham