Irony Quotes
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From even the greatest of horrors, irony is seldom absent.
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Irony is wasted on the stupid.
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Being lost is worth the being found.
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Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do. He who does not understand irony and has no ear for its whispering lacks of what might called the absolute beginning of the personal life. He lacks what at moments is indispensable for the personal life, lacks both the regeneration and rejuvenation, the cleaning baptism of irony that redeems the soul from having its life in finitude though living boldly and energetically in finitude.
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Would you like me to [kill you] now?" asked Snape, his voice heavy with irony. "Or would you like a few moments to compose an epitaph?
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I've learned not to hide behind a veil of irony - to talk about my work in a more honest way.
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I’ll project myself into several futures simultaneously, a minor tremor in my hand; I’ll work my way from irony to sincerity in the sinking city, a would-be Whitman of the vulnerable grid.
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Between "just desserts" and "tragic irony" we are given quite a lot of scope for our particular talent. Generally speaking, things have gone about as far as they can possibly go when things have got about as bad as they reasonably get.
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Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.
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The irony is that, coming from a white-collar British background, I tend to play blue-collar Americans!
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I want to see Brian Williams with no irony wearing a mustache.
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Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.
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The great irony to Dirk [Gently] is that he sees connections in everything, but the one thing he fails and struggles with most is connecting with other people.
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Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.
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Well, it'd certainly be fascinating if we discovered that gays were better at being married than heterosexuals are. Talk about irony.
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We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power.
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Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.
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United Nations peacekeepers are going all over the world spreading AIDS even while they're trying to bring peace. What a supreme irony.
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Humanity, perhaps, that quality of benevolence that humans have, without irony, named after themselves.
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In the works of Duchamp, space begins to walk and take on form; it becomes a machine that spins arguments and philosophizes; it resists movement with delay and delay with irony.
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Making a film that's supposed to be fun to watch is really hard - that's the weird irony of it.
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England and Denmark have a sense of irony and a darker sense of humour that you don't necessarily find in Germany and Sweden.
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Art for Duchamp, all the arts, obey the same law: meta-irony is inherent in their very spirit. It is an irony that destroys its own negation and, hence, returns in the affirmative.
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What I'm doing here is pointing out an irony: Here you have an institution that has systematically protected pedophile priests and then you have an innocent Michael Jackson, who California spent millions of dollars trying to prosecute and could not do it because it was complete bulls - t.
