Irony Quote by Meg Wolitzer

“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

“It wouldn't be the first time she had seen herself obliged to accept with smothered irony other people's interpretation of her conduct. She often…

— Henry James

“For so long, I’d wanted to hear those words fall from her lips. I’d just had no idea that in those words there would…

— A.L. Jackson

“I remained serious. For one thing, I thought it stupid of her to appear to believe or to wish other people to believe that…

— Marcel Proust

“She was quick of mind and swift of tongue, always ready to answer a set down with the kind of witty rebuke most of…

— Geraldine Brooks

“Irony is the sense of humor of fate.”

— Twila Vernon

“I don't think irony's meant to synergize with anything as heartfelt as sadness.”

— David Foster Wallace

“She would not exploit anyone. People would not observed by irony run amok. The audience would not have their superiority confirmed. Somehow they would…

— Jane McCafferty

“Some day perhaps our time will be known as the age of irony. Not the witty irony of the eighteenth century, but the stupid…

— Erich Maria Remarque

“I do love irony. It’s so…complicated and coincidental.”

— Cassandra Kemper

“and to know, by his ironical eyes, that he perfectly well understood the reason of her unusual meekness.”

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“She confused wit with intelligence, and made people laugh rather than lightening their hearts or making them think.”

— E. Lockhart