#irony

Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#agility #chaos #clear #consciousness #eternal

Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#good #great #irony #paradox #same

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

— Maurice Sendak

#could #darker #even #father #humor

He sure put things into words good. ↗

— S.E. Hinton

#irony #humor

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

— Jean Stafford

#form #high #i #i feel #irony

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. ↗

— Cliff Stearns

#against #cases #chief #chief justice #commandments

It's no small irony that the government inevitably and invariably ends up promoting precisely that which they would most like to repress. ↗

— Jock Sturges

#government #inevitably #invariably #irony #like

The grand irony, however, is that Southern segregation was not brought to an end, nor redneck violence dramatically reduced, by violence. ↗

— Stanley Crouch

#dramatically #end #grand #however #irony

Nay, but prithee, with sprinkles 'pon it instead," I said solemnly, "and frosting of white. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#politeness #sweetness #political

With every mistake, we must surely be learning. ↗