By multiplying ironies, I evade commitments.
It is one of the ironies of history that reformers so often misjudge the consequences of their reforms.
It is one of the great ironies of corporate control that the corporate state needs the abilities of intellectuals to maintain power, yet outside of this role it refuses to permit intellectuals to think or function independently.
Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved.
I try very hard to be fair, and I look for ironies. In a way, I live on ironies as a novelist.
One of the persistent ironies of reform is the impossibility of predicting the full consequences of change.
One of the bitterest ironies of life is that one truly appreciates a blessing only after having been deprived of it or imagining that.
It's one of the ironies of human nature that the most sensitive people are generally insensitive to the feelings of others.
Life is full of ironies and paradoxes.
I love meeting people who have absolutely no sense of irony. It's really fascinating to imagine what it would be like to go through life without understanding even the most basic of ironies.
In the end, the Labour party could cease to represent labour. Stranger historic ironies have happened than that.
It is the oldest ironies that are still the most satisfying: man, when preparing for bloody war, will orate loudly and most eloquently in the name of peace.
Well, certainly one of the ironies of the success of affirmative action is that the middle class within the black community no longer lives within 'black community' by and large.
The ironies in the commonplace are my inspiration and delight.
It is one of the ironies of biographical art that some details are more relevant than others, and many details have no relevance at all.
Wit is artificial; humor is natural. Wit is accidental; humor is inevitable. Wit is born of conscious effort; humor, of the allotted ironies of fate. Wit can be expressed only in language; humor can be developed sufficiently in situation.
It is one of history's great ironies that capitalists built decent and humane societies on the basis of an amoral approach to the economics of pricing, whereas socialists built exploitative and inhumane societies on the basis of a morally inflamed approach to economics.
