Quote by Taylor Anderson

Irony can elude the genius among us, sometimes.

— Berkeley Breathed

irony is a way of having one's cake while appearing to eat it.

— John Updike

Irony is the birth-pangs of the objective mind (based upon the misrelationship, discovered by the I , between existence and the idea of existence).…

— Soren Kierkegaard

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which…

— Jessamyn West

“Irony is about contradictions that do not resolve into larger wholes, even dialectically, about the tension of holding incompatible things together because both or…

— Donna J. Haraway

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

“People need irony in order to build interpersonal trust based on self-knowledge, humor and critical thinking.”

— Hanzi Freinacht

Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.

— Agnes Repplier

Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind…

— Jonathan Swift

I don't like irony and sarcasm very much. But I do like it when you think someone is telling you a joke, and then…

— Jens Lekman

I think satire is a luxury of literate middle-class people. People who are well fed and relatively secure in their beds can laugh at…

— Harold Ramis

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