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

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So the struck eagle, stretchd upon the plain,
No more through rolling clouds to soar again,
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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Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves. – Karl Kraus

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Irony is jesting behind hidden gravity. – John Weiss

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