Irony Quotes - Page 2

• The problem is that once the rules of art are debunked, and once the unpleasant realities the irony diagnoses are revealed and diagnosed, 'then' what do we do?

  David Foster Wallace

  Art, Reality, Diagnosis

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• The irony of that is, what makes it kind of ironic, is when you do become successful as a professional athlete in particular, a lot of the young children who are emulating these stars do have a different perspective.

  Frank Shorter

  Stars, Children, Athlete

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• Podría recurrir a una mayor reserva de libertad. La ironía podría desarrollar una facilidad aún mayor.

  Elfriede Jelinek

  Ease, Draws, Reservoirs

  Entrevista con Marika Griehsel, www.nobelprize.org. Noviembre de 2004.

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• You write a hit play the same way you write a flop.

  William Saroyan

  Writing, Play, Way

  "My Heart's in the Highlands" by William Saroyan, 1939.

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• Este compromiso con la verdad es algo que cada vez más estadounidenses anhelan, del mismo modo que se están volviendo cada vez más sofisticados a la hora de saber cuándo se está ocultando la verdad, una ironía que parece eludir la mayoría de los cargos electos actuales.

  Michael Musto

  Commitment, Knowing, Elude You

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• A $20 haircut hardly ever lasts longer than a $5 haircut.

  Wes Smith

  Lasts, Haircuts

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• Certainly, it seems true enough that there's a good deal of irony in the world... I mean, if you live in a world full of politicians and advertising, there's obviously a lot of deception.

  Kenneth Koch

  Mean, Hype, Deception

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• Making a film that's supposed to be fun to watch is really hard - that's the weird irony of it.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Fun, Watches, Film

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• The accident was a horrible thing - but that horrible thing made Chris, at the end of his life, Superman. It's a happy irony if there is such a thing. I'm proud to have known him.

  Morgan Freeman

  Proud, Ends, Made

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• Being lost is worth the being found.

  Neil Diamond

  Perdido, encontrado

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• Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.

  Lionel Trilling

  Humor, Littles, Weapons

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• The grand irony, however, is that Southern segregation was not brought to an end, nor redneck violence dramatically reduced, by violence.

  Stanley Crouch

  Redneck, Southern, Violence

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• Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Two, Quality, Fundamentals

  Charles Baudelaire, Keith Waldrop (2006). “The Flowers of Evil”, p.26, Wesleyan University Press

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• Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Agility, Chaos, Consciousness

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• It’s sad. Marxism didn’t work. Communism didn’t work. Capitalism doesn’t work.  Nothing works. Even democracy doesn’t work. Democracy-the greatest form of government and we have two choices for who’s our leader. In fascism you only have one choice. That’s great. We have one more choice than the worst form of government.

  Colin Quinn

  Sad, Leadership, Work

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• Sé amable con los empollones. Lo más probable es que acabes trabajando para uno.

  Bill Gates

  Divertido, Éxito, Hilarante

  "¿Ahora todos somos empollones?", por Matthew Kitchen, www.esquire.com. 25 de mayo de 2013.

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• If gay marriage was OK ... then I saw no reason in principle why a union should not be consecrated between three men, as well as two men; or indeed three men and a dog.

  Boris Johnson

  Dog, Gay, Men

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• No hay nudistas en las zonas frías.

  Tsugumi Ohba

  Divertido, Sarcástico, Humorístico

  Tsugumi Ohba, Takeshi Obata (2007). "Death note: Kindred spirit", VIZ Media LLC

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• Una obra se hace intuyendo cómo las fuerzas de la vida simulan la ignorancia: liberas la ironía oculta, la broma mortal.

  Arthur Miller

  Escritura, Ignorancia, Juego

  Arthur Miller (2016). "The Collected Essays of Arthur Miller", p.174, Bloomsbury Publishing.

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• Humor is everywhere in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.

  Bill Nye

  Divertido, Humor, Doe

  "The Science Guy Grows Up". Interview with Wired Magazine, www.wired.com. April 1, 2005.

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• It's no small irony that the government inevitably and invariably ends up promoting precisely that which they would most like to repress.

  Jock Sturges

  Artist, Government, Ends

  Interview with David Steinberg, www.nearbycafe.com. May 25, 1994.

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• Mi libro tiene una superficie muy simple, pero hay capas de ironía y paradoja a lo largo de todo él.

  Mark Haddon

  Book, Simple, Literature

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• Por qué podemos recordar el más mínimo detalle que nos ha ocurrido, y no recordar cuántas veces se lo hemos contado a la misma persona.

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  Details, Remember, Persons

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• Antes pensaba que el cerebro era el órgano más maravilloso del cuerpo. Luego me di cuenta de quién me lo decía.

  Emo Philips

  Divertido, Humorístico, Pensamiento

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• Irony differentiates. Cynicism never does.

  Paul Horgan

  Doe, Cynicism, Differentiate

  "Approaches to Writing". Book by Paul Horgan, No. 398, 1973.

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