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

— Martin Parr

I like the irony in my work.

— Miuccia Prada

While a particularly deft sense of irony may be one of the tools of great storytellers, I think it's also true that if irony…

— Steve Erickson

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 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

I have wit in my work and a sense of humor, but I do not use irony in any way

— John Zorn

There's not a lot of room for un-ironic emotion in contemporary culture. I think that irony is an important tool in dealing with the…

— John Green

irony is an indispensable ingredient of the critical vision; it is the safest antidote to sentimental decay.

— Ellen Glasgow

There has to be irony, both in design and in the objects. I see around me a professional disease of taking everything too seriously.…

— Achille Castiglioni

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

— Fred Tomaselli

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

— David Foster Wallace

The trouble with talking about irony is, it's such a slippery thing that the second you start talking about it, you're a better example…

— Daniel Handler