Quotes About Ironist

#1. As the ironist does not have the new within his power, it might be asked how he destroys the old, and to this it must be answered: he destroys the given actuality by the given actuality itself.

Soren Kierkegaard

#2. I would say I'm an ironist not a satirist. All you do is you take existing tendencies and crank them up, just turn up the volume dial. Which is a technique of science fiction, apart from anything else.

Martin Amis

#3. Boredom is the only continuity the ironist has.

Soren Kierkegaard

#4. Commercial comedy's often set up to feature an ironist making
devastating sport of someone who's naive or sentimental or pretentious or
pompous.

David Foster Wallace

#5. Every ironist has in mind a pretentious reader, mirror of himself.

Paul Valery

#6. Perhaps we can conceive of the ironist as the fetishist's apprentice, reaching out for all readers, ensnaring them in a tangle of ambiguity, uncertainty and indecision from which there is no escape. Irony, quite possibly, makes fetishists of us all.

Janet Beizer

#7. The ironist is ironical not because he does not care, but because he cares too much.

Randolph Bourne

#8. Blessed is the satirist; and blessed the ironist; blessed the witty scoffer, and blessed the sentimentalist; for each, having seen one spoke of the wheel, thinks to have seen all, and is content.

Christopher Morley

#9. The saddest task for the ironist is having to tell the listener that it's a joke, because of course it is never a joke.

Paul Theroux

#10. The reason ... our pervasive cultural irony is at once so powerful and so unsatisfying is that an ironist is impossible to pin down.

David Foster Wallace

#11. I don't think readers of Mann have overlooked the fact that he was a great ironist, but they have tended to see the irony in particular parts of the novella, and to miss it in others.

Philip Kitcher

#12. Many, however, gives themselves to God, but preserve still in their hearts some attachment to creatures, which prevents them from belonging entirely to God.

Alphonsus Liguori

#13. You keep your phone under your pillow?" Kelly asked with a laugh. This was the first time they'd shared a bed while Nick was on duty. "How does it fit beside your gun and your knife and the lube?

Abigail Roux

#14. There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.

Henry James

#15. I think very often the boat-rockers turn out to be the people who are building the craft

Tony Benn

#16. What is too often forgotten is that nature obviously intends the botched to die, and that every interference with that benign process is full of dangers.

H.L. Mencken