Assistants Quote by Soren Kierkegaard

Earnestness is stupidity sent to college.

— P. J. O'Rourke

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 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

Irony can elude the genius among us, sometimes.

— Berkeley Breathed

Irony gives us, at little expense, the impression that we are experienced psychologists.

— Gaston Bachelard

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

If you dethrone sincerity or earnestness with irony, eventually you get, like, an equal tyrant, do you know what I mean?

— Matty Healy

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

— Martin Parr

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

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