Connoisseur Quote by Lynn Kurland

A sharp sense of the ironic can be the equivalent of the faith that moves mountains. Far more quicky than reason or logic, irony…

— Moss Hart

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

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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

— Ellen Glasgow

I like the irony in my work.

— Miuccia Prada

Irony is one of my favorite aspects of life.

— Wes Studi

“Irony keeps reality at a distance. It has become our primary method for combatting the external world’s incompatibility with our own desires. Today’s irony…

— Ian Bogost

irony is a way of having one's cake while appearing to eat it.

— John Updike

Irony is a qualification of subjectivity.

— Soren Kierkegaard

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

“In an ideal world, a young man should not be an ironical person. At that age, irony prevents growth, stunts the imagination. It is…

— Julian Barnes

“Irony was new to her and tasted oddly good, like a previously unavailable summer fruit. Soon, she and the rest of them would be…

— Meg Wolitzer

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