1,034 Quotes About Irony
- Author James Lileks
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I still couldn't imagine that she was really, truly pregnant; maybe this was an hysterical pregnancy. But Sarah was never hysterical. Enthusiastic, yes, ironic on occasion. I couldn't imagine a doctor saying, "No, it's just an ironic pregnancy.
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- Author Oscar Wilde
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You cut life to pieces with your epigrams.
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- Author Fernando Pessoa
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Existo desde el principio del mundo y, desde entonces, soy un ironista.
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- Author Ani San
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Oh, I’m sorry. Did you want a fan club? You are right. I loved the movie, and you were perfect in it, you were absolutely amazing. Definitely Oscar material.
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- Author Nathaniel Hawthorne
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That Jim Crow there in the window," answered the urchin, holding out a cent, and pointing to the gingerbread figure that had attracted his notice, as he loitered along to school; "the one that has not a broken foot.
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- Author Wolf Pascoe
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Good judgment comes by way of experience, which comes of bad judgment.
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- Author David Brin
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Even in dying, a Thennanin ship was reputed to be not worth putting out of its misery. In battle they were slow, unmaneuverable—and as hard to disable permanently as a cockroach.
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- Author A.E. Croft
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My mouth was dry. Whispers carried on the wind as the maids around me bunched together in small groups, hysterical, morbid. I thought: who will clean the mess?
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- Author Tad Williams
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He led them around the base of a great fallen tree whose exposed roots resembled more than anything else a huge broom - a broom that would have fired the imagination of Rachel the Dragon toward heroic, legendary feats of sweeping.
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