#Irony

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

"I had a second friend come over to my house, and do you know what I called her? A refill. If relationships aren’t drinkable, why do we thirst for them so much?"

"You could write a book about things that you can't find on-line."

"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."

"With every mistake, we must surely be learning."

"A mouth of no distinction but well practiced, before I entered my teens, in irony. For what is irony but the repository of hurt? And what is hurt but the repository of hope?"

"That's the nature of being a parent, Sabine has discovered. You'll love your children far more than you ever loved your parents, and -- in the recognition that your own children cannot fathom the depth of your love -- you come to understand the tragic, unrequited love of your own parents."

"I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize."

"Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it."

"Faith is a luxury for those who are able to ignore what the rest of us must see every day. Pessimism, distrust, and irony are the holy trinity of my religion, irony in particular."

"The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's weak points but from his good qualities. Do you know what I'm getting at? People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virtues....[But] we accept irony through a device called metaphor. And through that we grow and become deeper human beings."

"I quote others only in order the better to express myself."

"I used the boos, and not the booze, as motivation. That led to applause, which I drank up like an alcoholic. I need a refill."

"Nobody steals books but your friends."

"If you think this Universe is bad, you should see some of the others."

"O, wonder!How many goodly creatures are there here!How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,That has such people in't!"

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

"God hides the fires of hell within paradise."

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

"Even things that are true can be proved."