Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.
Anatole France

Irony is the hygiene of the mind.
Elizabeth Bibesco

Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge.
Mason Cooley

Irony, I feel, is a very high form of morality.
Jean Stafford

It could draw from a greater reservoir of freedom. The irony could develop an even greater ease.
Elfriede Jelinek

It's no small irony that the government inevitably and invariably ends up promoting precisely that which they would most like to repress.
Jock Sturges

Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.
Barbara Kruger

Making a film that's supposed to be fun to watch is really hard - that's the weird irony of it.
Steven Soderbergh

My book has a very simple surface, but there are layers of irony and paradox all the way through it.
Mark Haddon

My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch.
Jack Nicholson

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.
Samuel Butler

Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.
Lionel Trilling

Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves.
Karl Kraus

That is where the irony of the film comes off, in terms of the language it employs - where he tries desperately to be a 'TV Dad,' to give advice and it's so pat it becomes ridiculous.
Atom Egoyan

The Academy Awards ceremony is designed to be without irony, but Chris Rock supplied it anyway with filmed movie-theater interviews with black men and women who had never heard of the movies nominated for Best Picture.
Suzanne Fields

The accident was a horrible thing - but that horrible thing made Chris, at the end of his life, Superman. It's a happy irony if there is such a thing. I'm proud to have known him.
Morgan Freeman

The grand irony, however, is that Southern segregation was not brought to an end, nor redneck violence dramatically reduced, by violence.
Stanley Crouch

The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates.
David Foster Wallace

The irony here is this administration is spending more money on climate change research and development than any administration in all the rest of the industrialized world combined.
Christine Todd Whitman

The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of probably my best poetry.
Philip Levine