"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
"Neither irony or sarcasm is argument." Samuel Butler
"Irony is the hygiene of the mind." Elizabeth Bibesco
"We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars." Anatole Broyard
"Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment." Edwin P. Whipple
"Irony is jesting behind hidden gravity." John Weiss
"Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves." Karl Kraus
"I am consistently inconsistent." Don Williams, Jr.
"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
"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch." Jack Nicholson
"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
"A day like today is not a day for soundbites, really. But I feel the hand of history upon our shoulders. I really do." Tony Blair
"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
"Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves." Karl Kraus
"Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions." E. O. Wilson
"Irony, I feel, is a very high form of morality." Jean Stafford
"Irony differentiates. Cynicism never does." Paul Horgan
"Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge." Mason Cooley
"This commitment to truth is something one senses more and more Americans yearning for, just as they are becoming more and more sophisticated at knowing when the truth is being obscured - an irony that seems to elude most of today's elected officials." Michael Musto
"What I lack in decorum, I make up for with an absence of tact." Don Williams, Jr.
"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
"Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit." Oscar Wilde
"Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding." Agnes Repplier
"We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power." Manuel Puig
"Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time." Friedrich Schlegel
"Irony is just honesty with the volume cranked up." George Saunders
"Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony." Charles Baudelaire
"Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom." Anatole France
"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"
"Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in just about anything a human does." Bill Nye
"Making a film that's supposed to be fun to watch is really hard - that's the weird irony of it." Steven Soderbergh
"The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive." Robert A. Heinlein