Afraid Quote by Donald Charles Davis

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

— Richard Christian Matheson

“Irony that does not deem itself ironic is the most dangerous irony of all.”

— Robert Pogue Harrison

“The worst thing about irony for me is that it attenuates emotion.”

— David Foster Wallace

“fact, at times it seems as if The Confidence-Man has been aggressively constructed for the purpose of giving the reader the unpleasant feeling of…

— Sianne Ngai

“Catastrophe and exuberance are often partners in the dance of irony.”

— Jeff W. Horton

“In rereading, the irony is all dramatic.”

— Djk

“I think the main function of contemporary irony is to protect the speaker from being interpreted as naive or sentimental.”

— David Foster Wallace

Irony ... may be defined as what people miss.

— Julian Barnes

“Looking back, I imagine that I was very odd, that I spoke too loudly, or that I said nothing when things of popular culture…

— Elizabeth Strout

“Fear makes people stupid,”

— Olivia A. Cole

“People need irony in order to build interpersonal trust based on self-knowledge, humor and critical thinking.”

— Hanzi Freinacht

“If we chose to refuse irony, we risk becoming irony's dupe.”

— Janet Beizer