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Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.
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A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.
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From even the greatest of horrors, irony is seldom absent.
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Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
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Humor does not include sarcasm, invalid irony, sardonicism, innuendo, or any other form of cruelty. When these things are raised to a high point they can become wit, but unlike the French and the English, we have not been much good at wit since the days of Benjamin Franklin.
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Humor is everywhere in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.
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Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.
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I'm so sick of sarcasm and irony, I could kill! Sincerely, the real root of things is love and sacrifice.
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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom: and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that, too.
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Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment.
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Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.
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It would no doubt be very sentimental to argue - but I would argue it nevertheless - that the peculiar combination of joy and sadness in bell music - both of clock chimes, and of change-ringing - is very typical of England. It is of a piece with the irony in which English people habitually address one another.
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Jews and homosexuals are the outstanding creative minorities in contemporary urban culture. Creative, that is, in the truest sense: they are creators of sensibilities. The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony.
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Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.
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Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.
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No sense of the irony of human experience, that we are the highest form of life on earth, and yet ineffably sad because we know what no other animal knows, that we must die.
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People in the U.K. share my bemusement with the United States that America doesn't share with itself. They have a sense of irony, which America doesn't have, seeing as it's being run by fundamentalists who take things literally.
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Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.
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Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves.
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That is where the irony of the film comes off, in terms of the language it employs - where he tries desperately to be a 'TV Dad,' to give advice and it's so pat it becomes ridiculous.
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