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.
Jessamyn West

A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.
Ellen Glasgow

And the irony is that they wrote better without access to my quotes.
Steve Carlton

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

Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world takes everything at face value.
Doug Coupland

But the irony is that because the band isn't the focus any more, it allows me the chance to enjoy being a member of Def Leppard much more.
Rick Allen

Certainly, it seems true enough that there's a good deal of irony in the world... I mean, if you live in a world full of politicians and advertising, there's obviously a lot of deception.
Kenneth Koch

Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it.
Charles Lamb

Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
Agnes Repplier

Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.
Bill Nye

I have wit in my work and a sense of humor, but I do not use irony in any way.
John Zorn

I love Sell Out, I think it's great. I love the jingles. The whole thing as an album is a wonderful piece of work. The cover. Everything about it. It's got humor, great songs, irony.
Roger Daltrey

I love the irony. I'm perceived as being really young and yet I have the clinical condition of an old man.
Michael J. Fox

I think that you can fall into bad habits with comedy... It's a tightrope to stay true to the character, true to the irony, and allow the irony to happen.
Ben Kingsley

I was not interested in irony; I wanted to emphasize the primacy of the idea in making art.
Sol LeWitt

If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
W. Somerset Maugham

Irony differentiates. Cynicism never does.
Paul Horgan

Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Irony is just honesty with the volume cranked up.
George Saunders

Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel