Irony Quote by Jedediah Purdy Download Open image “It is an oversimplification to say that the opposite of irony is oversimplification.” — Jedediah Purdy ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Irony Opposites Oversimplification
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
Irony is the bringing together of two contradictory truths and to make out of the contradiction a new truth, with a laugh or a… — Anne Hathaway 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
Sometimes I think that no situation actually fits the technical definition of irony, and that the word just sort of hangs out in the… — Mike Duncan Copy Share Image
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 tyrannizes us. All US irony is based on an implicit 'I don't really mean what I'm saying.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
A favorite Wired icon for the information feedback loop, a dragon curling in a circle to swallow its own tail, could become more apt… — Jedediah Purdy 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
..ReLAtionship is just like reading a bo0k... it d0esnt w0rk if y0ur n0t on the same paGe.. — Megz 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
“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