Quotes by Irony Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it. Charles Lamb irony veins blessed I suppose that's one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment. Charlie Chaplin irony wrong-things moments 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. Christian Nestell Bovee irony sarcasm mind Your favorite virtue? An appreciation for irony. Christopher Hitchens irony virtue appreciation Love: the sickest of Irony’s sick jokes. The place where logic and order go to die. Christopher Moore irony sick order That's the difference between irony and sarcasm. Irony can be spontaneous, while sarcasm requires volition. You have to create sarcasm. Christopher Moore irony sarcasm differences Even if that were true, it wouldn't be irony," Lucas pointed out. "Irony is the contrast between what's said and what happens. Claudia Gray contrast irony said Irony is the glory of slaves. Czeslaw Milosz irony slave glory The trouble with talking about irony is, it's such a slippery thing that the second you start talking about it, you're a better example of it than you are an analyst. Daniel Handler irony example talking And with alphabetical irony Nigeria follows New Zealand David Coleman irony inspirational funny Corporate irony not only ridicules the thing it is selling but the very act of selling it. In the process it disarms critics by making anyone who goes against the flow of commerce seem clueless. David Denby irony clueless flow The reason ... our pervasive cultural irony is at once so powerful and so unsatisfying is that an ironist is impossible to pin down. David Foster Wallace irony powerful impossible 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. David Foster Wallace irony splits hypocrisy Truth offends everyone outside its definitions. But the irony of truth is that the greater its potential for offense, the greater its potential for giving hope. David Jeremiah irony definitions giving Solemnity and a complete absence of irony also mark kitsch. Denis Dutton kitsch irony absence One of the persistent ironies of reform is the impossibility of predicting the full consequences of change. Diane Ravitch irony reform change Part of the irony of environmentalism is questing for solutions when you know you're part of the problem. Diane Ackerman irony problem knows Perhaps the saddest irony of depression is that suicide happens when the patient gets a little better and can again function sufficiently. Dick Cavett irony suicide littles 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. Don DeLillo irony earth animal Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment. Edwin Percy Whipple irony insult compliment «1234567891011»
