Earnestness Quote by Gillian Flynn

Irony dissolves sentiment, but occasionally a sentiment is strong enough to dissolve irony.

— Mason Cooley

“...element of comedy is never completely eliminated from irony. But irony is something more than comedy. A comic situation is proved to be an…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

A sharp sense of the ironic can be the equivalent of the faith that moves mountains. Far more quicky than reason or logic, irony…

— Moss Hart

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

The presence of irony does not necessarily mean that the earnestness is excluded. Only assistant professors assume that.

— Soren Kierkegaard

If you dethrone sincerity or earnestness with irony, eventually you get, like, an equal tyrant, do you know what I mean?

— Matty Healy

Kryptonite doesn’t bother me, either.

— Stephenie Meyer

I love meeting people who have absolutely no sense of irony. It's really fascinating to imagine what it would be like to go through…

— Daniel Handler

“The marriage of irony and sincerity helps us to take the perspectives of others: the racist, the exaggerated feminist, the conservative. Each ironic position…

— Hanzi Freinacht

I don't like the word ironic. I like the word absurdity, and I don't really understand the word 'irony' too much. The irony comes…

— Anonymous

In our native terms, the ironic style is often compounded with the sardonic and the hard-boiled; even the effortlessly superior. But irony originates in…

— Christopher Hitchens

The passive ironic attitude is not cool or romantic, but pathetic and destructive.

— Robert Greene