1,034 Quotes About Irony
- Author Jennifer Bosworth
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So the reason I was struck again and again was because of my overwhelmingly positive energy. Funny, I'd always thought of myself as a pessimist.
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- Author Edward Gibbon
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If the empire had been afflicted by any recent calamity, by a plague, a famine, or an unsuccessful war; if the Tiber had, or if the Nile had not, risen beyond its banks; if the earth had shaken, or if the temperate order of the seasons had been interrupted, the superstitious Pagans were convinced that the crimes and the impiety of the Christians, who were spared by the excessive lenity of the government, had at length provoked the divine justice.
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- Author Sarah Dessen
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A united front announcing a split.
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- Author Susan Elizabeth Phillips
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The Cinderella story in reverse. I only wish there were ashes in the fireplace so I could order you to sweep them out.
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- Author Donna J. Haraway
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Irony is about contradictions that do not resolve into larger wholes, even dialectically, about the tension of holding incompatible things together because both or all are necessary and true. Irony is about humour and serious play. It is also a rhetorical strategy and a political method, one I would like to see more honoured within socialist-feminism.
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- Author Jerry Lee Lewis
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My momma always said, 'You and Elvis are pretty good, but y'all ain't no Chuck Berry.
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- Author Amy Goldman Koss
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The other shoppers were too well behaved to stare at the green-headed stoner and the tear-streaked lady zigzagging up the aisles with a chubby bearded guy scurrying behind them picking up the things they dropped.
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- Author Lara Biyuts
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Seven pillars of wisdom propping the roof of the temple. Always remember what there's beyond the pillars.
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- Author Lily Allen
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There's a certain amount of what I wear that I wear for irony.
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