(175 quotes found)
“Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.”
Oscar Wilde
“Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.”
Erica Jong
“My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch”
Jack Nicholson
“Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment”
Edwin P. Whipple
“Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do”
Soren Kierkegaard
“And I always thought the biggest failing of Americans was their lack of irony. They are very serious there! Naturally, there are exceptions... the Jewish, Italian, and Irish humor of the East Coast.”
Colin Firth
“The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.”
Robert A. Heinlein
“It may be that we shall by a process of sublime irony have reached a stage in this story where safety will be the sturdy child of terror, and survival the twin brother of annihilation.”
Winston Churchill
“I have no race prejudice. I think I have no color prejudices or caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. Indeed, I know it. I can stand any society. All that I care to know is that a man is a human being -- that is enough for me; he can't be any worse.”
Mark Twain
“A play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate ignorance-you set free the concealed irony, the deadly joke.”
Arthur Miller
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