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I always thought the biggest failing of Americans was their lack of irony. They are very serious there! Naturally, there are exceptions... the Jewish, Italian, and Irish humor of the East Coast.

I have survivor skills. Some of that is superficial - what I present to people outwardly - but what makes people resilient is the ability to find humour and irony in situations that would otherwise overpower you.

I feel that there's hardly any irony in my work; if there's anything, there'll be sincerity, which people sometimes find hard to deal with.

I don't think it's aiming at gags, I think the humour is woven into it. It's part of how the characters operate and how they deal with disaster because they're worldly enough to have a bit of irony and wryness about their own circumstances. So, I think the humour comes out of that.

I love the French for their sarcasm, their irony. I love them for their bad moods.

I know the universe has a sense of irony, and sometimes you get reminded just how sadistic that can be.

I love the irony of movies. I really do. For whatever reason, I'm incredibly intrigued by the irony of reality in a motion picture.

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

I'm not much given to straight, irony-free hero-worship.

Irony: Don't let yourself be controlled by it, especially during uncreative moments.

Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.

Irony is to the high-bred what billingsgate is to the vulgar; and when one gentleman thinks another gentleman an ass, he does not say it point-blank, he implies it in the politest terms he can invent.

I need an irony punctuation mark for the clueless.

In my own work, humor is necessary, for the reasons stated above, but also because forbidding your characters silliness, absurdity, irony, and vulgarity forbids them aspects of the human experience every bit as universal as sorrow.

In the end, the Labour party could cease to represent labour. Stranger historic ironies have happened than that.

In the history of photography, one process has always replaced another. The tumultuous realignment that's going on in the photography now is really just a natural evolution. The irony is that none of the processes that have been replaced have disappeared. More people than ever are practicing every approach to shooting and printing.

Irony gives us, at little expense, the impression that we are experienced psychologists.

Irony deals with opposites; it has nothing to do with coincidence.

Irony is always the best weapon against fascism.

Irony is the hygiene of the mind.

Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge.

I think the French have a romantic cliche that Englishmen have great style, great music, irony and sense of humour. Well, sometimes cliches are true.

I suppose that's one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.

It is an oversimplification to say that the opposite of irony is oversimplification.

It is an unfortunate irony that music-making intended in part to attract new listeners is usually the least well rehearsed and motivated.

It is a strange irony that the principles of science should seem to deny the necessary conviction of common sense.

It is one of history's greatest ironies that, over the centuries, the pursuit of pleasure has resulted in more pain than enjoyment.

It is one of the ironies of biographical art that some details are more relevant than others, and many details have no relevance at all.

Life is full of ironies and paradoxes.

It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.

It's an astonishing skill that people can read, and read well. Very few people can read well. For instance, I have to be very careful with irony, saying something while meaning the exact opposite.

It turns out that President Obama has acid reflux. He had a sore throat, went to the hospital, and they diagnosed it as acid reflux. Talk about irony -- it's not covered by Obamacare.

Life is that perfect fine line between ironies.

It's a fitting irony that under Richard Nixon "launder" became a dirty word.

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

I wonder if Bettie Page original gay cult had something to do with the ironies inherent in her image, as well as her innate fabulousness as an image.

Language and, presumably, literature are more ancient and inevitable, more durable than any form of social organization. The revulsion, irony, or indifference often expressed by literature toward the state is essentially the reaction of the permanent-better yet, the infinite-against the temporary, against the finite.

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

Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument.

Love: the sickest of Irony’s sick jokes. The place where logic and order go to die.

Mann is widely recognized as a master of irony and ambiguity, yet it's remarkable how quickly people foreclose options he carefully leaves open. Lots of readers - including eminent critics - jump to conclusions: that Nietzsche's Birth of Tragedy is a central background text, that Aschenbach is an inferior writer, that he's never been attracted by pubescent male beauty before, that he dies of cholera.

Most of us start from that position of irony now and what I wanted to do - really felt like I had to do if I was going to write another novel - was move towards something like sincerity.

My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony.

My friend "M" says the irony of being a zombie is that everything is funny, but you can't smile, because your lips have rotted off.

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

Maybe the desert wisdom of the Dakotas can teach us to love anyway, to love what is dying, in the face of death, and not pretend that things are other than they are. The irony and wonder of all of this is that it is the desert's grimness, its stillness and isolation, that brings us back to love.

Never joke with the press. Irony does not translate into newsprint.

One of the bitter ironies of the 20th century was that communism, which began as an egalitarian doctrine accusing capitalism of selfishness and calloused sacrifices of others, became in power a system whose selfishness and callousness toward others made the sins of capitalism pale.

Nobody gets irony anymore, as we are now living in the post-ironic age. Once George Bush gets a library, our irony is dead.

Nobody these days holds the written word in such high esteem as police states do.