Irony Quote by Janet Beizer Download Open image ““If we chose to refuse irony, we risk becoming irony's dupe.”” — Janet Beizer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Irony
“Irony that does not deem itself ironic is the most dangerous irony of all.” — Robert Pogue Harrison Copy Share Image
“People need irony in order to build interpersonal trust based on self-knowledge, humor and critical thinking.” — Hanzi Freinacht Copy Share Image
“the thing about irony is you never see it coming; that's how you know it's there.” — Richard Christian Matheson Copy Share Image
“This American penchant for absolution via irony is foreign to them.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Irony alone is damning. The flesh will be bland and you will believe you are forever reading the same book.” — Anne Garréta 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
“Irony has always seemed the best approach to life, the best way to keep it at arm's length.” — Lawrence Thornton Copy Share Image
“I think the main function of contemporary irony is to protect the speaker from being interpreted as naive or sentimental.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“It is precisely, if paradoxically, because reversal is in the service of repetition (so as to ensure, alongside its companion strategies, a dizzying proliferation… — Janet Beizer Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“I know...but just the same" – this is Octave Mannoni's formulation of the structure of the fetish, and more generally of fetishistic thinking. The… — Janet Beizer Copy Share Image
“Don’t waste your time trying to explain yourself to people that are committed to misunderstanding you. Instead, commit your time to explaining who they… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
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“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
“Some women walk towards a better future. Others have chauffeurs.” — Ljupka Cvetanova Copy Share Image
Why do single women take advice from other single women? That's like Stevie Wonder giving Ray Charles driving directions. — Hussein Nishah Copy Share Image
Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“... a man doesn't like to have his ego popped, especially when he prides himself on his sagacity, and then to be proved wrong… — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
These eyes see through all of your lies. My mind knows you're not right for me. My mouth tells you to leave. My heart… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Teenagers: The most misunderstood people on earth. Treated like children and expected to act like adults. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“He liked the Leedses. He was sorry that he had been to the morgue. He thought the madman who visited them might have liked… — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's weak points but from his good qualities. Do… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image