Everything becomes symbol and irony when you've been betrayed

Royal Young's writing is that rare blend of irony and beauty.

You know, sometimes I swear the whole universe runs on irony.

The ironies in the commonplace are my inspiration and delight.

irony is a way of having one's cake while appearing to eat it.

I want to see Brian Williams with no irony wearing a mustache.

Humor, together with irony,forms a safeguard against idolatry.

There is not much irony when people are being happy on screen.

Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony.

There's a certain amount of what I wear that I wear for irony.

What cannot be said above all must not be silenced but written.

Everything we say about other people is really about ourselves.

It's an irony of our times that men seeking peace must make war.

Don’t underestimate the value of irony—it is extremely valuable.

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

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

Irony deals with opposites; it has nothing to do with coincidence.

Never joke with the press. Irony does not translate into newsprint.

And the irony is that they wrote better without access to my quotes.

You humans, you know, whoever built you sewed irony into your sinews.

Irony became the head that bit its tail and then there is no way out.

... the irony of life is not that you cannot forget but that you can.

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

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

This human nature is shabby stuff, as you may know from introspection.

The irony of loneliness is that everybody shares it from time to time.

Am I disappointed occasionally by the lack of irony in some movies? Yes.

I think people under age 55 come to Vegas with a certain sense of irony.

At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.

Irony - The modern mode: either the devil’s mark or the snorkel of sanity.

Experiences that banish irony are much better for living than for writing.

The greatest irony in the world is that you are so blessed and don't know it.

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

Humor is everywhere in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.

Cruel irony, the poor man tormented with hunger feeds those who plead his case.

The irony is that science has served only to show how small human knowledge is.

Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.

Nobody these days holds the written word in such high esteem as police states do.

Each day of the Obama presidency seems to bring a new, perversely delicious irony.

I love the French for their sarcasm, their irony. I love them for their bad moods.

This is what the establishment is scared of: Of joy, the sense of humour, of irony.

Love: the sickest of Irony’s sick jokes. The place where logic and order go to die.

The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of probably my best poetry.

I guess my sense of humour leans more towards irony and tongue-in-cheek performance.

It is an oversimplification to say that the opposite of irony is oversimplification.

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

Irony: Don't let yourself be controlled by it, especially during uncreative moments.

I'm most interested in finding the strangeness and irony in reality. That's my forte.

If you want to please the critics, don't play too loud, too soft, too fast, too slow.

I suppose that's one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.

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