It is an oversimplification to say that the opposite of irony is oversimplification. — Jedediah Purdy Copy Share Image
In life, we spend most of our time searching for what we already have. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
“Since ideology, particularly in it's shallower versions, is peculiarly destructive of the capacity to apprehend and appreciate irony, I suggest that the… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
My book has a very simple surface, but there are layers of irony and paradox all the way through it. — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
I can't deny the impact of, obviously, becoming a father and having my son come into this world, and even becoming a… — David Draiman Copy Share Image
Jews and homosexuals are the outstanding creative minorities in contemporary urban culture. Creative, that is, in the truest sense: they are creators… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
My dad moved to London in his early 20s and didn't really go back. So the irony is I've spent lots and… — Imogen Poots Copy Share Image
“It is odd that the Bible says, ‘God created man,’ whereas it is the other way round: man has created God. It… — Béla Bartók Copy Share Image
In India, whichever language you write in, the possibility of people not understanding irony or not understanding [remains there]. This as a… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
In the end, the Labour party could cease to represent labour. Stranger historic ironies have happened than that. — Enoch Powell Copy Share Image
“The greatest irony is that people with Rolodexes are no longer LinkedIn. And if that pun doesn't make sense, don’t ask anyone… — Ryan Lilly Copy Share Image
The most cruel thing a person can do is to forbid someone from saying, 'I love you' to the one he loves,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There are few things more mysterious than endings. I mean, for example, when did the Greek gods end, exactly? Was there a… — Salley Vickers Copy Share Image
“Now it turns out that a few broadsheet film critics in Britain do indeed belong to a category of people who would… — David Hare Copy Share Image
Nobody gets irony anymore, as we are now living in the post-ironic age. Once George Bush gets a library, our irony is… — Eric Idle Copy Share Image
The problem is that once the rules of art are debunked, and once the unpleasant realities the irony diagnoses are revealed and… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
The reason ... our pervasive cultural irony is at once so powerful and so unsatisfying is that an ironist is impossible to… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“In Russia, war will never be popular with the profound masses of people. Revolutionary ideas are more in their taste than a… — Nikolai Maklakov Copy Share Image
My sense, and I'm sort of guessing, is that the journalists were being classified by the government as common criminals, and the… — Adam Braver Copy Share Image
I swear, if Facebook changes their layout one more time, I'm going to post a status update about it & then use… — Hussein Nishah Copy Share Image
The irony about selling out is that they only call you a sell-out when your stuff finally sells - I've had products… — Tony Hawk Copy Share Image
