(230 quotes found)
“Irony is the hygiene of the mind.”
Elizabeth Bibesco
“I don't like the word ironic. I like the word absurdity, and I don't really understand the word 'irony' too much. The irony comes when you try to verbalize the absurd. When irony happens without words, it's much more exalted.”
David Lynch
“The irony of the pot calling the kettle black. Where's the pun in that?”
Rain Bojangles
“What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around.”
Georges Bernanos
“What can this piece of paper do; imagine?”
Alamgir Hashmi
“An ounce of wit is worth a pound of argument”
Sydney Smith
“I love the irony - I've spent over 400 hours of my life looking for comets, and haven't found anything, and now, suddenly, when I'm not looking for one, I get one dumped in my lap.”
Alan Hale
“The antidote to hubris, to overweening pride, is irony, that capacity to discover and systematize ideas. Or, as Emerson insisted, the development of consciousness, consciousness, consciousness.”
Ralph Ellison
“It is a common tragic irony that the loudest people are rarely the ones who are the smartest or most correct, yet they are more often than not the ones with the most unsolicited advice on how everything should be.”
Mike E. Knezevich, Jr.
“Remember, Razumov, that women, children, and revolutionists hate irony, which is the negation of all saving instincts, of all faith, of all devotion, of all action.”
Joseph Conrad
