Irony Quote by Manuel Puig

I don't embrace irony, but I do think it's a pre-existing condition; we manage it as best we can.

— Fred Tomaselli

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

Irony gives us, at little expense, the impression that we are experienced psychologists.

— Gaston Bachelard

Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.

— Barbara Kruger

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

— D.A. Wallach

“People need irony in order to build interpersonal trust based on self-knowledge, humor and critical thinking.”

— Hanzi Freinacht

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

People use irony as a defense mechanism.

— David Byrne

“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

What would we do without irony? Check out your own daily reliance on it, the foul-weather friend who's there for you when nothing else…

— Robin Morgan

Existing outside of irony is so hard.

— Zal Batmanglij

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