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IRONY [ Also see Humor Jeering Ridicule Sarcasm Satire Sneer Wit ] A careful observation of Nature will disclose pleasantries of superb irony. She has for instance placed toads close to flowers.       - Honore de Balzac Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.       - Jacques Anatole I. France (Jacques Anatole Thibault) Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves.       - Karl Kraus Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it.       - Charles Lamb (used pseudonym Elia) For what is irony but the repository of hurt? And what is hurt but the repository of hope?       - Joyce Carol Oates, Ugly Irony is jesting hidden behind gravity.       - John Weiss 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.       - Jessamyn West Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment.       - Edwin Percy Whipple The GIGA name and the GIGA logo are trademarks registered in the United States Patent and Trademark Office. GIGA-USA and GIGA-USA.COM are servicemarks of the domain owner. Copyright © 1999-2018 John C. Shepard. All Rights Reserved. Last Revised: 2018 December 9 Support GIGA.  Buy something from Amazon.

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