#irony

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #irony




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


Agnes Repplier


#brings #deeper #friendly #insight #irony

Tremendous beauty and tremendous ugliness puts you on the outside of things.


Peter Bogdanovich


#dorothy-swenson #irony #outsider #beauty

The Academy Awards ceremony is designed to be without irony, but Chris Rock supplied it anyway with filmed movie-theater interviews with black men and women who had never heard of the movies nominated for Best Picture.


Suzanne Fields


#academy awards #anyway #awards #best #best picture

From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent.


H.P. Lovecraft


#irony #horror

Irony differentiates. Cynicism never does.


Paul Horgan


#differentiates #does #irony #never

What an ironic tragedy that an affluent, “Christian” minority in the world continues to hoard its wealth while hundreds of millions of people hover on the edge of starvation!


Ronald J. Sider


#christianity #hunger #irony #majority #minority

Those darling byegone times, Mr Carker,' said Cleopatra, 'with their delicious fortresses, and their dear old dungeons, and their delightful places of torture, and their romantic vengeances, and their picturesque assaults and sieges, and everything that makes life truly charming! How dreadfully we have degenerated!


Charles Dickens


#humor #irony #medieval #middle-ages #nostalgia

It is sometimes easier to be happy if you don't know everything.


Alexander McCall Smith


#irony #knowledge #beauty

She walks in beauty. (118)


Ron Rash


#irony #beauty

Royal Young's writing is that rare blend of irony and beauty.


Simon Van Booy


#british #celebrity #fame #irony #romance