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Irony Quotes

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In the end, the Labour party could cease to represent labour. Stranger historic ironies have happened than that.
Enoch Powell

Authors on Irony Quotes: Mason Cooley Oscar Wilde Soren Kierkegaard Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Catherynne M. Valente David Foster Wallace James Patterson Friedrich Nietzsche Christopher Moore Lynn Kurland Esther Hicks Samuel Butler Florence Welch Joseph Brodsky Paul Bailey Anthony Marra Zeena Parkins Lil B Simon Sinek Gertrude Atherton Heather Brewer Morgan Freeman Elizabeth Bibesco Tan Twan Eng Jack D. Schwager John Waters Alexander McCall Smith Rachel Hartman Mark Lawrence Don DeLillo Richard Fleeshman Tom Stoppard Italo Calvino
2.
Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility,
of the infinitely abundant chaos.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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

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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

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

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The truth is you really are nothing, but this nothing is full, whole, infinite in everything and everywhere. This nothing is conciousness itself. It is already whole, complete and fulfilled. This is the amazing irony.
Gangaji

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It is one of history's ironies that Communism, advertised as a classless society, tended to breed a privileged class of feudal proportions.
Henry A. Kissinger

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Life is that perfect fine line between ironies.
Serj Tankian

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

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The irony of New Testament lordship is that only in slavery to Christ can a man discover authentic freedom.
R. C. Sproul

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It's one of the ironies of human nature that the most sensitive people are generally insensitive to the feelings of others.
Ann Landers

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Faith is a luxury for those who are able to ignore what the rest of us must see every day. Pessimism, distrust, and irony are the holy trinity of my religion, irony in particular.
Brando Skyhorse

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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

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

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

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Irony is the hygiene of the mind.
Elizabeth Bibesco

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I want to get a tattoo of the word irony, only misspelled.
Anthony Jeselnik

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Life is full of ironies and paradoxes.
John Hurt

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Everything we say about other people is really about ourselves.
Merrit Malloy

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One of the ironies of courage, and the reason why we prize it so highly, is that we find it easier to be brave for someone else than we do for ourselves alone.
Gregory David Roberts

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Accept that there are things in this world we can never explain and life will be understandable. That is the irony of life. It is also the beauty of it.
Tan Twan Eng

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Let's escape the past. The past didn't work. All we have is the future, and I'm the one who wrote "no future for you!" Don't let the irony be lost.
John Lydon

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There are a million ways to make money in the markets. The irony is that they are all very difficult to find.
Jack D. Schwager

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The surest sign of the estrangement of the opinions of two persons is when they both say something ironical to each other and neither of them feels the irony.
Friedrich Nietzsche

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The antidote to hubris, to overweening pride, is irony, that capacity to discover and systematize ideas.
Ralph Ellison

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You know the great irony is that people think you have to have money to enjoy fine food, which is a shame.
Ted Allen

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

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Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment.
Edwin Percy Whipple

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

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The irony is that the person not taking risks feels the same amount of fear as the person who regularly takes risks.
Peter McWilliams

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Far more quickly than reason and logic, irony can penetrate rage and puncture self-pity.
Moss Hart

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Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do
Soren Kierkegaard

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My friend "M" says the irony of being a zombie is that everything is funny, but you can't smile, because your lips have rotted off.
Isaac Marion

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Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
Oscar Wilde

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I feel that there's hardly any irony in my work; if there's anything, there'll be sincerity, which people sometimes find hard to deal with.
Patricia Piccinini

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Your favorite virtue? An appreciation for irony.
Christopher Hitchens

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Men who retain irony are not to be trusted. They can't always resist an impulse to tickle themselves.
Taylor Caldwell

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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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Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument.
Rufus Choate

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There's a large strain of irony in our human affairs... Interwoven with our affairs is this wonderful spirit of irony which prevents us from ever being utterly and irretrievably serious, from being unaware of the mysterious nature of our existence.
Malcolm Muggeridge

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It is sometimes easier to be happy if you don't know everything.
Alexander McCall Smith

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Even things that are true can be proved.
Oscar Wilde

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

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Everyone is always going through tough things, the irony in it is that everyone thinks what they're going through is just as hard as what you are. Life isn't about surviving this, it's about understanding this.
Nicholas Sparks

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Honesty and unpopular opinions are the toughest sell in a country with an irony-deficiency.
Greg Proops

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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

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One of the ironies of the stock market is the emphasis on activity. Brokers, using terms such as 'marketability' and 'liquidity,' sing the praises of companies with high share turnover... but investors should understand that what is good for the croupier is not good for the customer. A hyperactive stock market is the pick pocket of enterprise.
Warren Buffett

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Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.
Samuel Butler

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Time changes all things and cultivates even in herself an appreciation of irony, and, therefore, why shouldn't I have changed a trifle?
James Branch Cabell

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