Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.

Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

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

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

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor for it takes irony to read more

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.

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

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

Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument.

Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument.

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

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

Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.

Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.

Irony is jesting behind hidden gravity.

Irony is jesting behind hidden gravity.