Enigma Quote by Harold Bloom

The reason ... our pervasive cultural irony is at once so powerful and so unsatisfying is that an ironist is impossible to pin down.

— David Foster Wallace

“Could the word ‘iron’ be the root from which ‘irony’ is derived?”

— Victor Hugo

“I had become wiser, I tried to find out what irony really is, and discovered that some ancient writer on poetry had spoken of…

— Robertson Davies

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

Irony is the cultivation of the spirit and therefore follows next after immediacy; then comes the ethicist, then the humourist, then the religious person.

— Soren Kierkegaard

“The world is in trouble because of a few funny sympathetic philosophers”

— M.F. Moonzajer

“Perhaps we can conceive of the ironist as the fetishist's apprentice, reaching out for all readers, ensnaring them in a tangle of ambiguity, uncertainty…

— Janet Beizer

We tend to think of Hamlet as one of the wisest, most intellectually prodigious characters in all of literature. Which he is, but there's…

— Norah Vincent

I don't think readers of Mann have overlooked the fact that he was a great ironist, but they have tended to see the irony…

— Philip Kitcher

Hamlet is an astonishing intelligence.

— Ben Kingsley

“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

“Irony, like sin, never rests.”

— Michael Bunker