Irony Quotes
These are some of the best 'Irony' quotations and sayings.
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Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it.
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Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.
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Irony is a qualification of subjectivity.
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Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment; insinuating the most galling satire under the phraseology of panegyric; placing its victim naked on a bed of briers and thistles, thinly covered with rose-leaves; adorning his brow with a crown of gold, which burns into his brain; teasing and fretting, and riddling him through and through, with incessant discharges of hot shot from a masked battery; laying bare the most sensitive and shrinking nerves of his mind, and then blandly touching them with ice, or smilingly pricking them with needles.
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Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.
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Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.
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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.
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Irony limits, finitizes, and circumscribes and thereby yields truth, actuality, content; it disciplines and punishes and thereby yields balance and consistency.
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Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge.
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Irony: Do not let yourself be governed by it, especially not in unproductive moments. In productive ones try to make use of it as one more means of seizing life.
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The most perfect humor and irony is generally quite unconscious.
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