Book Quote by Mark Haddon

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

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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

— Martin Parr

I feel like in American fiction we're moving out of a period of intense irony, and I'm very glad about that. I feel like…

— Lauren Groff

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

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 limits, finitizes, and circumscribes and thereby yields truth, actuality, content; it disciplines and punishes and thereby yields balance and consistency.

— Soren Kierkegaard

There is no paradox. There is only irony.

— Philip K. Jason

I think I would explode in flames of irony if I were to option an idea that I was satirizing in a novel.

— Jess Walter

Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“Irony alone is damning. The flesh will be bland and you will believe you are forever reading the same book.”

— Anne Garréta

“Everything in life is metaphor… We accept irony through a device called metaphor. And through that we grow and become deeper human beings. Irony…

— Haruki Murakami