Actuality Quote by Soren Kierkegaard

The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and…

— David Foster Wallace

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

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

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Irony is the bringing together of two contradictory truths and to make out of the contradiction a new truth, with a laugh or a…

— Anne Hathaway

Irony is the cultivation of the spirit and therefore follows next after immediacy; then comes the ethicist, then the humourist, then the religious person.

— Soren Kierkegaard

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

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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

— Ellen Glasgow

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

— Martin Parr

Irony is a qualification of subjectivity.

— Soren Kierkegaard

Sometimes I think that no situation actually fits the technical definition of irony, and that the word just sort of hangs out in the…

— Mike Duncan

“...element of comedy is never completely eliminated from irony. But irony is something more than comedy. A comic situation is proved to be an…

— Reinhold Niebuhr