I moved to New England partly because it has a real literary past. The ghosts of Hawthorne and Melville still sit on… — John Updike Copy Share Image
A careful observation of Nature will disclose pleasantries of superb irony. She has for instance placed toads close to flowers. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
I don't like the word ironic. I like the word absurdity, and I don't really understand the word 'irony' too much. The… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Suppose we took a thousand negatives... combining the elegances, the squalor, the curiosities, the monuments, the sad faces, the triumphant faces, the… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
The irony of acquiring a foreign tongue is that I have amassed just enough cheap, serviceable words to fuel my desires and… — Monique Truong Copy Share Image
The Death Penalty: Killing people that kill people to show people that killing people is wrong. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Ironically, people tend to change their attitude towards you when you begin treating them the way they treat you. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What comes easy, wont always last. And what will last, wont always come easy. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Perhaps we can conceive of the ironist as the fetishist's apprentice, reaching out for all readers, ensnaring them in a tangle of… — Janet Beizer Copy Share Image
Simply put, dramatic irony is when a person makes a harmless remark, and someone else who hears it knows something that makes… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My dad is so unique in what he does. It's not like I'm taking a torch from him and doing his thing.… — Willie Geist Copy Share Image
“As usual I was working the graveyard shift—an irony I reveled in—at an emergency call center. What other shift would a vampire… — Patois Copy Share Image
Being accused of making money by selling sex in Hollywood, home of the casting couch and the gratuitous nude scene, is so… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
But that's men all over ... Poor dears, they can't help it. They haven't got logical minds. — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
There's been this strange irony to my whole life. All my original bandmates have died, when I was the most wild and… — Nile Rodgers Copy Share Image
Women have always been more critical of marriage than men. The great mysterious irony of it is - at least it's the… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Large increases in cost with questionable increases in performance can be tolerated only in race horses and fancy women. — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
And make no mistake: irony tyrannizes us. The reason why our pervasive cultural irony is at once so powerful and so unsatisfying… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“They only asked for punishments that fitted their crimes. Not ones that came like cupboards with built-in bedrooms. Not ones you spent… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I guess my sense of humour leans more towards irony and tongue-in-cheek performance. — Eliza Scanlen Copy Share Image
“Anyway, I'm in bed with her, with her bracelets. Her face is a blank, so I darken the lights. Off go her… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
