Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.
Irony Quotes
Americans do get irony, but to them there’s a time and a place for it. The time and place is in the evening, sitting down in front of the latest blockbuster sitcom.
Irony is the perception of a clash between appearance and reality, between seems and is, or between ought and is.
It should also be pointed out that Americans are not known for possessing a very highly developed sense of irony: perhaps a rough satirical spirit (or at worse, gentle parody), but not a sophisticated ironical style.
Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do. He who does not understand irony and has no ear for its whispering lacks of what might called the absolute beginning of the personal life. He lacks what at moments is indispensable for the personal life, […]
Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it.
There is a grim irony in speaking of the freedom of contract of those who, because of their economic necessities, give their service for less than is needful to keep body and soul together.
Britain and America are separated by the Irony Curtain.
Visual ironies tend to fall flat or they vulgarize very quickly or they become grotesque. Really subtle irony of any sort demands literary language. The way in which meaning tends to wander in any really interesting literary text, so that the reader is challenged to go into exile with it, catch up with it, learn […]
Irony is bitter truth Wrapped up in a little joke.
