Irony Quote by Mark O'Connell

“Irony sucks, you know?" Roger nodded. "That it does. Safely confined to the pages of novels, it's an interesting rhetorical device; encountered loose in…

— John Langan

“fact, at times it seems as if The Confidence-Man has been aggressively constructed for the purpose of giving the reader the unpleasant feeling of…

— Sianne Ngai

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

— Anne Garréta

“Irony is the sense of humor of fate.”

— Twila Vernon

“Irony that does not deem itself ironic is the most dangerous irony of all.”

— Robert Pogue Harrison

“Solemnity has its limits, it invites derision. But irony is corrosive, it never ends. ”

— P.F. Kluge

“Pretend you are a foolish to the tyrant – because if he realizes you are a genius, he might use you to harm others.”

— A Gentlemen

“ Your favorite virtue? An appreciation for irony.”

— Christopher Hitchens

“What's dangerous in the hands of the multitudes, he said, with what may or may not have been irony, is safe enough for those…

— Margaret Atwood

“The clever people likes foolish because they knows how to take advantage of their foolishness.”

— Sammy Toora

“the thing about irony is you never see it coming; that's how you know it's there.”

— Richard Christian Matheson

“I think the main function of contemporary irony is to protect the speaker from being interpreted as naive or sentimental.”

— David Foster Wallace