irony quotes

• My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch. (Jack Nicholson) [mother/irony]
• What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around. (Georges Bernanos) [pity/irony/flight]
• The Poor Man whom everyone speaks of, the Poor Man whom everyone pities, one of the repulsive Poor from whom charitable souls keep their distance, he has still said nothing. Or, rather, he has spoken through the voice of Victor Hugo, Zola, Richepin. At least, they said so. And these shameful impostures fed their authors. Cruel irony, the Poor Man tormented with hunger feeds those who plead his case. (Albert Camus) [irony]
• The keynote of American civilization is a sort of warm-hearted vulgarity. The Americans have none of the irony of the English, none of their cool poise, none of their manner. But they do have friendliness. Where an Englishman would give you his card, an American would very likely give you his shirt. (Raymond Chandler) [vulgarity/irony/english/give]
• Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom. (Anatole France) [irony/gaiety/joy/wisdom]
• Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do. He who does not understand irony and has no ear for its whispering lacks of what might called the absolute beginning of the personal life. He lacks what at moments is indispensable for the personal life, lacks both the regeneration and rejuvenation, the cleaning baptism of irony that redeems the soul from having its life in finitude though living boldly and energetically in finitude. (Soren Kierkegaard) [irony/irony/absolute/life]
• Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves. (Karl Kraus) [irony/graves]
• Jews and homosexuals are the outstanding creative minorities in contemporary urban culture. Creative, that is, in the truest sense: they are creators of sensibilities. The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony. (Susan Sontag) [jews/culture/irony]
• And I always thought the biggest failing of Americans was their lack of irony. They are very serious there! Naturally, there are exceptions... the Jewish, Italian, and Irish humor of the East Coast. (Colin Firth) [irony/]
• Some people do it with irony and humor. Some people do it earnestly. Some people are ashamed of having to ask the question. And every so often there will be a journalist from Swaziland who doesn't know anything about it -- wonderful. (Colin Firth) [people/irony/people/people]
• “I love the irony. I'm perceived as being really young and yet I have the clinical condition of an old man.” (Michael Fox) [love/irony/being/condition]
• Which is a wonderful irony, I have property there. I go back every chance I get. One of the main reasons I actually wrote the book, agreed to write it having never wanted to do that in my life, very intimidating by the way to write a book. (Sela Ward) [irony/property/chance/life]

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