Irony Quotes - Page 2

• The problem is that once the rules of art are debunked, and once the unpleasant realities the irony diagnoses are revealed and diagnosed, 'then' what do we do?

  David Foster Wallace

  Art, Reality, Diagnosis

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• The irony of that is, what makes it kind of ironic, is when you do become successful as a professional athlete in particular, a lot of the young children who are emulating these stars do have a different perspective.

  Frank Shorter

  Stars, Children, Athlete

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

  Elfriede Jelinek

  Ease, Draws, Reservoirs

  Interview with Marika Griehsel, www.nobelprize.org. November 2004.

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• You write a hit play the same way you write a flop.

  William Saroyan

  Writing, Play, Way

  "My Heart's in the Highlands" by William Saroyan, 1939.

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• This commitment to truth is something one senses more and more Americans yearning for, just as they are becoming more and more sophisticated at knowing when the truth is being obscured - an irony that seems to elude most of todays elected officials.

  Michael Musto

  Commitment, Knowing, Elude You

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• A $20 haircut hardly ever lasts longer than a $5 haircut.

  Wes Smith

  Lasts, Haircuts

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• Certainly, it seems true enough that there's a good deal of irony in the world... I mean, if you live in a world full of politicians and advertising, there's obviously a lot of deception.

  Kenneth Koch

  Mean, Hype, Deception

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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.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Fun, Watches, Film

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• 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

  Proud, Ends, Made

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• Being lost is worth the being found.

  Neil Diamond

  Lost, Found

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

  Lionel Trilling

  Humor, Littles, Weapons

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• The grand irony, however, is that Southern segregation was not brought to an end, nor redneck violence dramatically reduced, by violence.

  Stanley Crouch

  Redneck, Southern, Violence

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• Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Two, Quality, Fundamentals

  Charles Baudelaire, Keith Waldrop (2006). “The Flowers of Evil”, p.26, Wesleyan University Press

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• Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Agility, Chaos, Consciousness

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• It’s sad. Marxism didn’t work. Communism didn’t work. Capitalism doesn’t work.  Nothing works. Even democracy doesn’t work. Democracy-the greatest form of government and we have two choices for who’s our leader. In fascism you only have one choice. That’s great. We have one more choice than the worst form of government.

  Colin Quinn

  Sad, Leadership, Work

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• Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.

  Bill Gates

  Funny, Success, Hilarious

  "Are We All Nerds Now?" by Matthew Kitchen, www.esquire.com. May 25, 2013.

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• If gay marriage was OK ... then I saw no reason in principle why a union should not be consecrated between three men, as well as two men; or indeed three men and a dog.

  Boris Johnson

  Dog, Gay, Men

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• There are no nudists in cold areas.

  Tsugumi Ohba

  Funny, Sarcastic, Humorous

  Tsugumi Ohba, Takeshi Obata (2007). “Death note: Kindred spirit”, VIZ Media LLC

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• A play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate ignorance-you set free the concealed irony, the deadly joke.

  Arthur Miller

  Writing, Ignorance, Play

  Arthur Miller (2016). “The Collected Essays of Arthur Miller”, p.174, Bloomsbury Publishing

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

  Bill Nye

  Funny, Humor, Doe

  "The Science Guy Grows Up". Interview with Wired Magazine, www.wired.com. April 1, 2005.

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• 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

  Artist, Government, Ends

  Interview with David Steinberg, www.nearbycafe.com. May 25, 1994.

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• My book has a very simple surface, but there are layers of irony and paradox all the way through it.

  Mark Haddon

  Book, Simple, Literature

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• Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Details, Remember, Persons

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• I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.

  Emo Philips

  Funny, Humorous, Thinking

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• Irony differentiates. Cynicism never does.

  Paul Horgan

  Doe, Cynicism, Differentiate

  "Approaches to Writing". Book by Paul Horgan, No. 398, 1973.

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