Ironic Quote by Henry James Download Open image “Don’t underestimate the value of irony—it is extremely valuable.” — Henry James ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ironic Irony Underestimate Valuable Values
Irony is a great tool to deal with things. It's an intellectualization, a way to go above things, which can work. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
irony is an indispensable ingredient of the critical vision; it is the safest antidote to sentimental decay. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
The trouble with talking about irony is, it's such a slippery thing that the second you start talking about it, you're a better example… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
A vast percentage of the human race is literally not wired neurologically to get irony. Well more than half of humanity takes life at… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I don't embrace irony, but I do think it's a pre-existing condition; we manage it as best we can. — Fred Tomaselli Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not. — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors. — Henry James Copy Share Image
“In literature we move through a blest world in which we know nothing except by style, but in which everything is saved by it.” — Henry James Copy Share Image
“I shall stay here as long as I may, I don't want to think — I needn't think. I don't care for anything but… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“...It often seemed to her that she thought too much about herself, you could have made her blush any day of the year, by… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“I reflected acutely that the sense of such differences, such superiorities of quality, always, on the part of the majority—which could include even stupid,… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“She had had a real fright but had fallen back to earth. The odd thing was that in her fall her fear too had… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“She had never met a woman who had less of that fault which is the principal obstacle to friendship - the air of reproducing… — Henry James Copy Share Image
If you have work to do, don't wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it. — Henry James Copy Share Image
It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games — Henry James Copy Share Image
Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
I love Derrick Brown for the surprise of one word waking up next to another. One moment tender, funny or romantic, the next, visceral,… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
“sometimes when everything seems at its worst when all conspires and gnaws and the hours, days, weeks years seem wasted – stretched there upon… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“Myrna was not astigmatic; the lenses were clear glass; she wore the glasses to prove her dedication and intensity of purpose.” — John Kennedy Toole Copy Share Image
It is more than a little ironic that "capital accumulation" once a rather tendentious Marxian view of a supposed capitalist obsession, should have become… — Robert Kuttner Copy Share Image
One of the most destructive mistakes we Christians make is to prioritize shared beliefs over shared relationship, which is deeply ironic considering we worship… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
“I've never written a quote I feel would be suitable for my gravestone. Wouldn't it be ironic if it were this one? Oh, and… — Ryan Lilly Copy Share Image
My first concert isn't that cool or ironic. I wish it had been like, "My first concert was the Backstreet Boys," but the first… — Nick Kroll Copy Share Image
“Zoe loved Trancas's mother. She respected her exhausted and ironic hope for rebirth.” — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“People are ruined by challenged economic lives. But they are ruined by wealth as well because they lose their ambition and they lose their… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Gucci is a rapper that doesn't try and be anything he's not - he's straight up. Yeah, maybe it's ironic and all, but I'm… — Diplo Copy Share Image
