Top Irony Quotes
Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Irony differentiates. Cynicism never does.
Paul Horgan
Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
Agnes Repplier
Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
It could draw from a greater reservoir of freedom. The irony could develop an even greater ease.
Elfriede Jelinek
Charles Baudelaire 
Atom Egoyan 
E. O. Wilson 
David Foster Wallace 
Cliff Stearns 
Morgan Freeman 
W. Somerset Maugham 
Ben Kingsley All Irony Quotes
Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel 
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Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
Agnes Repplier
57% of people like this quote
Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
56% of people like this quote
It could draw from a greater reservoir of freedom. The irony could develop an even greater ease.
Elfriede Jelinek
55% of people like this quote
My book has a very simple surface, but there are layers of irony and paradox all the way through it.
Mark Haddon
55% of people like this quote
It's no small irony that the government inevitably and invariably ends up promoting precisely that which they would most like to repress.
Jock Sturges
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The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of probably my best poetry.
Philip Levine
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Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.
Barbara Kruger
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Popular Irony Authors
Mason CooleySamuel ButlerDoug CouplandW. Somerset MaughamKarl Wilhelm Friedrich SchlegelCharles BaudelaireManuel PuigMorgan FreemanKarl KrausAnatole FranceBen KingsleyJack NicholsonJock SturgesCharles LambCarter Burwell
Robert A. HeinleinMark HaddonFrank ShorterFrederick DouglassSuzanne FieldsBarbara KrugerSteven SoderberghStanley CrouchAtom EgoyanJessamyn WestE. O. WilsonCliff StearnsTed AllenMichael J. FoxDavid Foster Wallace
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