Famous quotes containing the words verbal and/or irony:
“It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought, a process stumbling through emotional entanglements, sudden irrational convictions, involuntary gleams of insight, rationalized prejudices, and blocks of panic and inertia, finally to reach a completely incommunicable intuition.”
—Northrop Frye (b. 1912)
“Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.”
—Agnes Repplier (1858–1950)