What cannot be said above all must not be silenced but written.
There's a large strain of irony in our human affairs. . . Interwoven with our affairs is this wonderful spirit of irony which prevents us from ever being utterly and irretrievably serious, from being unaware of the mysterious nature of our existence.
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.
Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it.
Irony differentiates. Cynicism never does.
I want to get a tattoo of the word irony, only misspelled.
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.
Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.
Skype is a wonderful thing. The irony is that you never Skype when you're in the same country as someone.
Irony can elude the genius among us, sometimes.
Irony: While we increasingly hold people more responsible if they drink and drive, we hold women less responsible if they drink and have sex.
It is a strange irony that the principles of science should seem to deny the necessary conviction of common sense.
The irony is that I use computers every day of my life to do music because I edit all of my music in a computer. But when it comes to doing live processing, I prefer, as a performer with an instrument, not just having the computer as the only thing I have. I really prefer and find it much more flexible to have the limitations of pedals.
Irony is the bringing together of two contradictory truths and to make out of the contradiction a new truth, with a laugh or a smile.
All the pathos and irony of leaving one’s youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel
Hollywood is a place of great irony at all times.
It's one of the ironies of human nature that the most sensitive people are generally insensitive to the feelings of others.
The South has more of a disproportionate amount of irony on T-shirts than any other region in the country.
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.
The universe tends toward maximum irony. Don't push it.