Daniel Handler Quotes About Irony

Quotes about: Irony

• Simply put, dramatic irony is when a person makes a harmless remark, and someone else who hears it knows something that makes the remark have a different, and usually unpleasant, meaning. For instance, if you were in a restaurant and said out loud, "I can't wait to eat the veal marsala I ordered," and there were people around who knew that the veal marsala was poisoned and that you would die as soon as you took a bite, your situation would be one of dramatic irony.

  Daniel Handler

  People, Waiting, Different

• 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.

  Daniel Handler

  People, Understanding, Would Be

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2005.

• I never thought about whether film is inherently more sincere, because certainly I think if Guy Maddin had directed A Series Of Unfortunate Events, there probably could have been more of the stage-y irony that is in the books. But I was just interested to see what people would do with it, and worrying that Brad Silberling wouldn't do what I had in mind.

  Daniel Handler

  Book, Thinking, People

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2005.

• The trouble with talking about irony is, it's such a slippery thing that the second you start talking about it, you're a better example of it than you are an analyst.

  Daniel Handler

  Talking, Example, Irony

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2005.

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