Comment Quote by Douglas Coupland

I guess my sense of humour leans more towards irony and tongue-in-cheek performance.

— Eliza Scanlen

“Irony keeps reality at a distance. It has become our primary method for combatting the external world’s incompatibility with our own desires. Today’s irony…

— Ian Bogost

“A good conversation is the only human equivalent: the realizing that decent points are being made and understood, that irony is in play, and…

— Christopher Hitchens

Irony is a qualification of subjectivity.

— Soren Kierkegaard

People use irony as a defense mechanism.

— David Byrne

I don't like irony and sarcasm very much. But I do like it when you think someone is telling you a joke, and then…

— Jens Lekman

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 is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment.

— Anonymous

Irony is the birth-pangs of the objective mind (based upon the misrelationship, discovered by the I , between existence and the idea of existence).…

— Soren Kierkegaard

I feel that there's hardly any irony in my work; if there's anything, there'll be sincerity, which people sometimes find hard to deal with.

— Patricia Piccinini

Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.

— Agnes Repplier

The surest sign of the estrangement of the opinions of two persons is when they both say something ironical to each other and neither…

— Friedrich Nietzsche