Well, it’d certainly be fascinating if we discovered that gays were better at being married than heterosexuals are. Talk about irony. – Gail Collins
That’s the irony in the work: the best stories are the worst things that happen. My best times were somebody else’s worst. – Michael Connelly
I’ve learned not to hide behind a veil of irony – to talk about my work in a more honest way. – Florence Welch
My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony. – Maurice Sendak
Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony. – Lionel Trilling
My book has a very simple surface, but there are layers of irony and paradox all the way through it. – Mark Haddon
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
I think I would explode in flames of irony if I were to option an idea that I was satirizing in a novel. – Jess Walter
England and Denmark have a sense of irony and a darker sense of humour that you don’t necessarily find in Germany and Sweden. – Mads Mikkelsen
I like to have my characters talking in an up-to-date way, and I like their essentially modern self-awareness, which means we can have lots of irony and jokes. – Jonathan Stroud
Most of all, I am struck by an irony central to the lot of a purebred dog: As it attains the hallmarks of its breed, it seems to simultaneously relinquish its basic dogginess, until it is less a dog than a Pomeranian, Collie or Bloodhound. – Jean Hanff Korelitz
Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn’t use irony to reduce their power. – Manuel Puig
In the works of Duchamp, space begins to walk and take on form; it becomes a machine that spins arguments and philosophizes; it resists movement with delay and delay with irony. – Octavio Paz
Art for Duchamp, all the arts, obey the same law: meta-irony is inherent in their very spirit. It is an irony that destroys its own negation and, hence, returns in the affirmative. – Octavio Paz
There’s something about Vonnegut’s deadpan irony that I really like. And I like Borges’ puzzle structure. – Ruth Ozeki
Everyone is tearing each other apart in the name of their personal god. And the irony is, by definition, they’re probably worshiping the same god. – Ridley Scott
The act of seeing any film generally is you knowing more than the characters, even if it’s the classic Hitchcock shot of two people talking and a bomb being under the table. Part of the pleasure of it is seeing where people go wrong, and the irony of situations. – Richard Ayoade
Irony is the recourse of the weak-minded wimp, I think. I hate bands that deliver their songs with knowing smiles on their faces, so that if those songs fall flat they can say ‘Ah well, we never really meant it anyway.’ It’s so dishonest. – Robert Smith
Skype is a wonderful thing. The irony is that you never Skype when you’re in the same country as someone. – Richard Fleeshman
The irony is that kids are treated equally when it comes to tests and standards and expectations but not treated equally when providing funds to meet those standards and expectations. – Pete Gallego
I was not interested in irony; I wanted to emphasize the primacy of the idea in making art. – Sol LeWitt
I am a member of the human race. There’s a certain irony about the cyberworld. You don’t know who is talking to you, if it’s a machine, so I tend to try to reach out to those fellow humans. – Tim Daly
