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“In rereading, the irony is all dramatic.”

— Djk

“Irony is a treacherous servant; unless it's very carefully watched over, it has a tendency to expose the foolishness of its apparent master.”

— Mark O'Connell

“If you ever don't see irony, it's because you're not seeing everything.”

— Eric Hirzel

“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 is an indispensable ingredient of the critical vision; it is the safest antidote to sentimental decay.

— Ellen Glasgow

Simply put, dramatic irony is when a person makes a harmless remark, and someone else who hears it knows something that makes the remark…

— Anonymous

The next time I write a play - in order to get audience trust for a particular sort of tragic line, I'll try to…

— Colm Toibin

“Dramatic irony is a cruel occurrence, one that is almost always upsetting and I'm sorry to have it appear in this story, but Violet,…

— Lemony Snicket

“...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

“Blindness is not so much a tragedy as it is a damn nuisance.”

— Sonora Carver

“Petty mindedness instructs eyes to see everything from an unappropriate standpoint, beautifulness could be looked otherwise.”

— Toba Beta

“There is a strange sensation often experienced in the presence of an audience. It may proceed from the gaze of the many eyes that…

— William Pittenger