Irony Quote by Matty Healy

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

“The marriage of irony and sincerity helps us to take the perspectives of others: the racist, the exaggerated feminist, the conservative. Each ironic position…

— Hanzi Freinacht

Irony is the word I forget the meaning of immediately after I look it up, but I kind of feel like I live in…

— Maureen Johnson

I am someone who takes everything very literally. I simply do not understand irony, a defect I have had ever since I was able…

— Werner Herzog

Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment.

— Anonymous

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

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“Irony is a treacherous servant; unless it's very carefully watched over, it has a tendency to expose the foolishness of its apparent master.”

— Mark O'Connell

The presence of irony does not necessarily mean that the earnestness is excluded. Only assistant professors assume that.

— Soren Kierkegaard

In our native terms, the ironic style is often compounded with the sardonic and the hard-boiled; even the effortlessly superior. But irony originates in…

— Christopher Hitchens

Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do

— Soren Kierkegaard

Irony can elude the genius among us, sometimes.

— Berkeley Breathed