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Irony Quotes
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Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
Irony is the hygiene of the mind. (Quote by - Elizabeth Bibesco)
A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself. (Quote by - Jessamyn West)
Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment (Quote by - Edwin P. Whipple)
Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do (Quote by - Soren Kierkegaard)
Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony. (Quote by - Charles Baudelaire)
My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch. (Quote by - Jack Nicholson)
Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge. (Quote by - Mason Cooley)
Irony differentiates. Cynicism never does. (Quote by - Paul Horgan)
Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument. (Quote by - Rufus Choate)
A play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate ignorance-you set free the concealed irony, the deadly joke. (Quote by - Arthur Miller)
What I lack in decorum, I make up for with an absence of tact. (Quote by - Don Williams, Jr)
Why does everyone run toward a blood curdling scream? mumbled the Senior Wrangler. It is contrary to all sense. (Quote by - Terry Pratchett)
We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars. (Quote by - Anatole Broyard)