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“the thing about irony is you never see it coming; that's how you know it's there.”

— Richard Christian Matheson

Irony is Fate's most common figure of speech.

— Trevanian

“Irony is the sense of humor of fate.”

— Twila Vernon

Sometimes I think that no situation actually fits the technical definition of irony, and that the word just sort of hangs out in the…

— Mike Duncan

“Irony sucks, you know?" Roger nodded. "That it does. Safely confined to the pages of novels, it's an interesting rhetorical device; encountered loose in…

— John Langan

Every war is ironic because every war is worse than expected. Every war constitutes an irony of situation because its means are so melodramatically…

— Paul Fussell

“Irony was new to her and tasted oddly good, like a previously unavailable summer fruit. Soon, she and the rest of them would be…

— Meg Wolitzer

Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“I do love irony. It’s so…complicated and coincidental.”

— Cassandra Kemper

Irony is the bringing together of two contradictory truths and to make out of the contradiction a new truth, with a laugh or a…

— Anne Hathaway

Irony can elude the genius among us, sometimes.

— Berkeley Breathed

“Irony alone is damning. The flesh will be bland and you will believe you are forever reading the same book.”

— Anne Garréta