Authority Quote by James Patterson

We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power.

— Manuel Puig

Irony is going to be hard to get. You have to be master of the literal first. But then, Americans don't get irony either.…

— Geoffrey Hinton

Irony gives us, at little expense, the impression that we are experienced psychologists.

— Gaston Bachelard

Irony can elude the genius among us, sometimes.

— Berkeley Breathed

“This American penchant for absolution via irony is foreign to them.”

— David Foster Wallace

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

— Janet Beizer

It's no small irony that the government inevitably and invariably ends up promoting precisely that which they would most like to repress.

— Jock Sturges

I don't embrace irony, but I do think it's a pre-existing condition; we manage it as best we can.

— Fred Tomaselli

People use irony as a defense mechanism.

— David Byrne

“Irony tyrannizes us. All US irony is based on an implicit 'I don't really mean what I'm saying.”

— David Foster Wallace

Americans don't understand irony? I am an intelligent person living in the United States. My entire existence is ironic.

— Marc Maron

Nobody gets irony anymore, as we are now living in the post-ironic age. Once George Bush gets a library, our irony is dead.

— Eric Idle