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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

William Somerset Maugham

Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment.

Edwin P. Whipple

Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.

Douglas Coupland

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

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 it values more, it will lose that too

William Somerset Maughan

Irony is the hygiene of the mind.

Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco

Irony is just honesty with the volume cranked up.

George Saunders

The irony of commitment is that it's deeply liberating -- in work, in play, in love.

Anne Morriss

Irony is jesting behind hidden gravity.

John Weiss

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

Anatole France

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

Karl Kraus

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

Robert A. Heinlein

Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do

Soren Kierkegaard

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.

Ellen Glasgow

Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge.

Mason Cooley

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

Lionel Trilling

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

John Zorn

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.

Somerset Maugham

Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and the sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery.

Joseph Wood Krutch

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.

Jessamyn West

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

Frederick Douglass

Irony differentiates. Cynicism never does.

Paul Horgan

Irony, I feel, is a very high form of morality.

Jean Stafford

Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony.

Charles Baudelaire

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

Anatole Broyard