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

Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment. – Edwin P. Whipple

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Viewd his own feather on the fatal dart,
And wingd the shaft that quiverd in his heart. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time. – Friedrich Von Schlegel

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

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