Comedy Quote by John Zorn

People are always saying, 'You use irony,' and it's like, actually, we don't use irony: we use wit and playfulness and irreverence.

— Giles Deacon

There are elements of irony in my work, of course.

— Martin Parr

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

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

You can't use irony as a way of disengaging with the difficult or emotional aspects of life.

— D.A. Wallach

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

I don't like the word ironic. I like the word absurdity, and I don't really understand the word 'irony' too much. The irony comes…

— Anonymous

There has to be irony, both in design and in the objects. I see around me a professional disease of taking everything too seriously.…

— Achille Castiglioni

Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

I like the irony in my work.

— Miuccia Prada

Humor is the pensiveness of wit.

— Robert Aris Willmott

People use irony as a defense mechanism.

— David Byrne