The main business of a lawyer is to take the romance, the mystery, the irony, the ambiguity out of everything he touches.

A good proverb is often the marriage of a Truth to an Enchantment, where Humor is the groomsman and Irony the priest.

Relate comic things in pompous fashion. Irregularity, in other words the unexpected, the surprising, the astonishing, are essential to and characteristic of beauty. Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony. The blend of the grotesque and the tragic are attractive to the mind, as is discord to blas? ears. Imagine a canvas for a lyrical, magical farce, for a pantomime, and translate it into a serious novel. Drown the whole thing in an abnormal, dreamy atmosphere, in the atmosphere of great days ? the region of pure poetry.

The innate human desire to seek more or better means we never have everything we want. The irony is that one of the best ways to show we deserve what we want is to cherish and be grateful for what we have.

Satan is too hard a master. He would never command as did the Other with divine simplicity: 'Do likewise.' The devil will have no victims resemble him. He permits only a rough caricature, impotent, abject, which has to serve as food for eternal irony, the mordant irony of the depths.

The irony is that while God doesn't need us but still wants us, we desperately need God but don't really want Him most of the time. He treasures us and anticipates our departure from this earth to be with Him-and we wonder, indifferently, how much we have to do for Him to get by.

The irony is that while God doesn't need us but still wants us, we desperately need God but don't really want Him most of the time.

"It is strange the way trauma deadens curiosity. To suffer cruelty in excess is to be delivered from care. The human heart sets aside its questions when the future is too capricious. This is the irony of tribulation.

Hence the great irony: Hayek, one of the greatest champions of individual liberty and economic freedom the world has ever known, believed that knowledge was communal. Dewey, the champion of socialism and collectivism, believed that knowledge was individual. Hayek's is a philosophy that treats individuals as the best judges of their own self-interests, which in turn yield staggering communal cooperation. Dewey's was the philosophy of a giant, Monty Pythonesque crowd shouting on cue: "We're All Individuals!

Irony? Irony can never be more than our own personal Maginot line; the drawing of it, for the most part, purely arbitrary.

The most dangerous irony is, people are angry with others because of their own incompetence.

Hell's bells, irony blows.

I was suffering the easily foreseeable consequences. Addiction is the hallmark of every infatuation-based love story. It all begins when the object of your adoration bestows upon you a heady, hallucinogenic dose of something you never dared to admit you wanted-an emotional speedball, perhaps, of thunderous love and roiling excitement. Soon you start craving that intense attention, with a hungry obsession of any junkie. When the drug is witheld, you promptly turn sick, crazy, and depleted (not to mention resentful of the dealer who encouraged this addiction in the first place but now refuses to pony up the good stuff anymore-- despite the fact that you know he has it hidden somewhere, Goddamn it, because he used to give it to you for free). Next stage finds you skinny and shaking in a corner, certain only that you would sell your soul or rob your neighbors just to have 'that thing' even one more time. Meanwhile, the object of your adoration has now become repulsed by you. He looks at you like you're someone he's never met before, much less someone he once loved with high passion. The irony is,you can hardly blame him. I mean, check yourself out. You're a pathetic mess,unrecognizable even to your own eyes. So that's it. You have now reached infatuation's final destination-- the complete and merciless devaluation of self." - pg 20-21

"When it was over, she gathered him in her arms. And told him the terrible irony of her life.

The irony of life is that those who wear masks often tell us more truths than those with open faces.

The world changes, we do not, therein lies the irony that kills us.

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

Love: the sickest of Irony's sick jokes. The place where logic and order go to die.

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

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.