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Births

• 1913 - William Reddington Hewlett
• 1952 - Roger Milla
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• The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates.

  David Foster Wallace

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Irony

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

  Maurice Sendak

  Topics in Father, Humor

  Tags in Irony

• Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.

  Barbara Kruger

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Irony, Culture

• You know the great irony is that people think you have to have money to enjoy fine food, which is a shame.

  Ted Allen

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Irony

• Irony is just honesty with the volume cranked up.

  George Saunders

  Topics in Honesty

  Tags in Irony

• The irony is of course that my career has lasted a whole lot longer than some of the people I’ve parodied over the years.

  Al Yankovic

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Irony, Longer

• That is where the irony of the film comes off, in terms of the language it employs – where he tries desperately to be a ‘TV Dad,’ to give advice and it’s so pat it becomes ridiculous.

  Atom Egoyan

  Topics in Advice

  Tags in Irony, Give

• Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Qualities, Irony

• Irony is the hygiene of the mind.

  Elizabeth Bibesco

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Irony, Hygiene, Mind

• There is not much irony when people are being happy on screen.

  Carter Burwell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Happy, Irony

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

  Bill Nye

  Topics in Humor

  Tags in Irony, Just

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

  Agnes Repplier

  Topics in Humor

  Tags in Irony, Bring

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

  Lionel Trilling

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Generate, Irony, Weapon

• Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.

  Erica Jong

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Irony, Wishes

• Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge.

  Mason Cooley

  Topics in Challenge, Truth

  Tags in Irony

• And the irony is that they wrote better without access to my quotes.

  Steve Carlton

  Tags in 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.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Tags in Irony, Nation

• Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves.

  Karl Kraus

  Tags in Irony

• The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Tags in Supreme, Irony