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Existing outside of irony is so hard.

Quotes by Zal Batmanglij

Irony is one of my favorite aspects of life.

Quotes by Wes Studi

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

Quotes by Steven Soderbergh

And the irony is that they wrote better without access to my quotes.

Quotes by Steve Carlton

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

Quotes by Sol LeWitt

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

Quotes by Samuel Butler

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Quotes by Robert A. Heinlein

United Nations peacekeepers are going all over the world spreading AIDS even while they're trying to bring peace. What a supreme irony.

Quotes by Richard Holbrooke

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.

Quotes by Pete Gallego

I think people under age 55 come to Vegas with a certain sense of irony.

Quotes by Penn Jillette

I adore jokes. They're a theatrical contrivance, but the irony of all fiction is that you approach reality by avoiding it a bit; you spoof it a bit.

Quotes by Paul Morrissey

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.

Quotes by Octavio Paz

I like the irony in my work.

Quotes by Miuccia Prada

From my point of view, humour and irony include tragedy; they're two sides of the same coin.

Quotes by Maurizio Cattelan

Instagram is not a place for tone or irony.

Quotes by Mary H.K. Choi

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

Quotes by Mark Haddon

Hollywood is a place of great irony at all times.

Quotes by Mark Canton

We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power.

Quotes by Manuel Puig

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

Quotes by Lionel Trilling

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.

Quotes by Jonathan Stroud

I don't know why 'Midsomer Murders' is so popular; I've asked this many times and I've asked the Germans particularly because I've become very fond of them, to be honest. And they say it's the irony, the sense of humour and so on.

Quotes by John Nettles

The irony of environmental opposition to the Keystone XL project is that stopping the pipeline to the U.S. will not stop production in the oil sands of Canada. Instead of coming to the United States, the oil will still be produced and shipped by rail or a pipeline similar to the Keystone XL to Canada's Pacific Coast.

Quotes by John Hoeven

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

Quotes by Jock Sturges

I don't have a constituency, and I'm not autobiographical in any way. I write these deeply moral books in a country which would prefer irony to anything with a moral tone.

Quotes by Jim Crace

Whether it's Shakespeare or Moliere, irony is a key component in the construction of theatre. A script would be pretty bad if it was devoid of irony.

Quotes by Jiang Wen

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

Quotes by Jean Stafford

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.

Quotes by Jean Hanff Korelitz

I'm really into the irony of writing vaguely radical plays that instantly win huge establishment awards. It's really amusing.

Quotes by Israel Horovitz

From even the greatest of horrors, irony is seldom absent.

Quotes by H. P. Lovecraft

'Irony' is such an over-used word.

Quotes by Giles Deacon

Irony has seeped into the felt of any fedora hat I have ever owned - not out of any wish of mine, but out of necessity. A fedora hat worn by me without the necessary protective irony would eat through my head and kill me.

Quotes by George W. S. Trow

Irony is just honesty with the volume cranked up.

Quotes by George Saunders

The great irony was that the punks were more conservative and narrow-minded and musically bigoted that anyone else.

Quotes by Genesis P-Orridge

I'm not into cartoons. That's the irony of it.

Quotes by Gary Larson

At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.

Quotes by Frederick Douglass

I've done pretty well as a professional fed-up. The tools of my trade so far have been irony, tongue-in-cheek mockery, and supercilious contempt, but these are highly civilized weapons designed for 18th-century French salons.

Quotes by Florence King

When I was 16, I'd ping pong between AC/DC and Barry Manilow without any sense of irony.

Quotes by Eric McCormack

Irony is the hygiene of the mind.

Quotes by Elizabeth Bibesco

I guess my sense of humour leans more towards irony and tongue-in-cheek performance.

Quotes by Eliza Scanlen

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

Quotes by Elfriede Jelinek

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.

Quotes by David Foster Wallace

The problem is that once the rules of art are debunked, and once the unpleasant realities the irony diagnoses are revealed and diagnosed, 'then' what do we do?

Quotes by David Foster Wallace

Everyone that is not an ultra-conservative recognizes the irony of FOX's 'Fair and Balanced' moniker, which only accentuates its actual bias.

Quotes by Daniel Lubetzky

Of course the 19th century remained in blissful ignorance of post-modern irony, and the dime novels were made without end.

Quotes by Clive Sinclair

The irony of the Supreme Court hearing on these cases last week and of the outright hostility that the Court has displayed against religion in recent years is that above the head of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court is a concrete display of the Ten Commandments.

Quotes by Cliff Stearns

The irony of the political rise of the plutocrats is that, like Venice's oligarchs, they threaten the system that created them.

Quotes by Chrystia Freeland

Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it.

Quotes by Charles Lamb

Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony.

Quotes by Charles Baudelaire

There is not much irony when people are being happy on screen.

Quotes by Carter Burwell

I used to get so many letters from students about the ending of 'Pro Femina.' So I had a stamp made that said 'irony, irony, irony' to put on a postcard and mail it back.

Quotes by Carolyn Kizer

Humor is everywhere in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.

Quotes by Bill Nye

This is what the establishment is scared of: Of joy, the sense of humour, of irony.

Quotes by Beppe Grillo

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

Quotes by Barbara Kruger

I love British television. I love the irony, I love the authenticity and I love the roles I get put up for.

Quotes by Ayda Field

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.

Quotes by Atom Egoyan

Americans are not renowned for having a sense of irony.

Quotes by Andrew Dominik

We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars.

Quotes by Anatole Broyard

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

Quotes by Anatole France

The irony is of course that my career has lasted a whole lot longer than some of the people I've parodied over the years.

Quotes by Al Yankovic

I want to see Brian Williams with no irony wearing a mustache.

Quotes by Adam McKay

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