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Irony

«Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.»
Author: Agnes Repplier (Essayist, Writer) | About: Humor, Irony | Keywords: friendly, insight, ironies, irony
«Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment»
Author: Edwin P. Whipple | About: Irony | Keywords: compliment, conveyed, insult, ironies, irony
«Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.»
Author: Erica Jong | About: Advice, Irony, Wishes | Keywords: advice, ask for
«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»
Author: Jessamyn West (Writer) | About: Irony, Sense of humor | Keywords: irony, sense of taste
«A play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate ignorance-you set free the concealed irony, the deadly joke.»
«Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it»
«A mind is like a parachute. If it doesn't open, you're fucked!»
Author: Don Williams, Jr | About: Comedy, Humor, Irony
«His wit and irony - particularly when he uses them to condemn superstition - are inimitable»
Author: Bertrand Russell (Logician, Philosopher) | About: Irony | Keywords: inimitable, irony
«A day like today is not a day for soundbites, really. But I feel the hand of history upon our shoulders. I really do.»
«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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