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«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
«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
«Irony is jesting behind hidden gravity»
Author: John Weiss | About: Irony | Keywords: gravity, irony, jesting
«Glossy, efficient prose, garnished with a pinch of irony and a dab of melodrama.»
Author: Michiko Kakutani | About: Prose | Keywords: dab, garnish, garnished, glossy, irony, pinch
«A play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate ignorance-you set free the concealed irony, the deadly joke.»
Author: Arthur Miller (Playwright) | About: Irony, Play | Keywords: concealed, deadly, irony, play a joke on, sensing, set free, simulate, simulated, simulating
«Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it»
Author: Charles Lamb (Critic, Essayist, Poet) | About: Irony | Keywords: blessed with, clap, clapping, extinguisher, irony, unhappily, vein
«His wit and irony - particularly when he uses them to condemn superstition - are inimitable»
Author: Bertrand Russell (Logician, Philosopher) | About: Irony | Keywords: inimitable, irony
«Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do»
Author: Soren Kierkegaard (Philosopher, Theologian) | About: Irony | Keywords: cherished, disciplinarian, ironies, irony
«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»
Author: William Somerset Maugham (Novelist, Playwright, Writer) | About: Freedom, Irony, Nations | Keywords: ironies, irony
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