Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.

We are all tourists in history and irony is what we win in wars.

Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge.

At a time like this scorching irony not convincing argument is needed.

A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.

The irony of the Supreme Court hearing on these cases last week and of the outright hostility that the Court has displayed against religion in recent years is that above the head of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court is a concrete display of the Ten Commandments.

We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power.

The irony is going to work every day became the subject of probably my best poetry.

You know in my music career there was a moment where the irony was just so heavy. There were people in my audience that were the reason I developed neuroses. These people that tortured my life were using my art my poetry as fuel for them to torture other people.

United Nations peacekeepers are going all over the world spreading AIDS even while they're trying to bring peace. What a supreme irony.

The irony is that you can't use real rain to make movies.

What people adore about superhero movies is the signal quality of the Christopher Nolan films - their complete lack of irony when it comes to the portrayal of heroism and the need for heroes to confront evil.

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

I love Sell Out I think it's great. I love the jingles. The whole thing as an album is a wonderful piece of work. The cover. Everything about it. It's got humor great songs irony.

I have wit in my work and a sense of humor but I do not use irony in any way.

My father could be very witty even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony.

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.

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

Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.

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.

It is hard to miss the irony in the fact that the very same week that Republicans were publicly heralding Congressman Paul Ryan's plan to inject market forces into the American health care system they were crafting a budget deal to strip them from the health reform law.

Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.

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.

The kind of funny irony is that a lot of people talk about ethical meat eating as if it's a way to care about things but also not to alienate yourself from the rest of the world. But it's so much more alienating than vegetarianism.