irony [is] a fashionable response to the experience of being had.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Ebert describes irony as a common way to respond when you feel tricked by life.
- In plain terms
- Irony is used when things go wrong unexpectedly.
- What can you take from it?
- Irony protects us from feeling fooled.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- When do you use irony to cope?
Another view
Irony can also distance people from taking action.
More from Roger Ebert
I have discovered a goodness and decency in people as exhibited in all the letters, e-mails, flowers, gifts and prayers that have been directed my way. I am ov…
Permalink to quote #8 I began my work as a film critic in 1967. I had not thought to be a film critic, and indeed had few firm career plans apart from vague notions that I might som…
Permalink to quote #10 For 40 years, I didn't miss a single deadline, but since July, I have missed every one. I also, to my intense disappointment, missed the Telluride and Toronto …
Permalink to quote #7
Related quotes
Sex is God's joke on human beings.
Bette DavisBette Davis quote #56 Things we are accustomed to regard as myth or fairy story are very much present in people's lives. Nice people behave like wicked stepmothers. Every day.-'Abou…
Diana Wynne JonesDiana Wynne Jones quote #1 A little rule, a little sway, A sunbeam in a winter's day, Is all the proud and mighty have Between the cradle and the grave.
John DyerJohn Dyer quote #1