Just don’t forget irony; it’s the entry ticket to humanity. Advice: There are some people that if they don’t know, you can’t tell them.
LOUIS ARMSTRONG
History of the World in 10½ Chapters say, “Irony may be defined as what people miss.
”Of all places, the house magazine Bridge Bulletin recently ran an article that began: “Irony, in the sense of finding unexpected truth, is frequent in literature but rare in bridge” you can also use understatement.

For him, irony was not just a literary trope but constituted a whole approach to life and, he argued, should be present in every work of art. It’s not so much amatter of words, or even of character or situation, but rather a total perspective. Central to irony is “never to articulate the idea as such but only casually to suggest it, to give with one hand and take away with the other, to hold the idea as personal property.”
He called his thesis The Concept of Irony, with Continual Reference to Socrates, and as suggested in his title he referred constantly to Socrates, who pretended to be ignorant and under the guise of being taught found a way to instruct others. With Socrates, “the outer and the inner did not form a harmonious unity, for the outer was in opposition to the inner, and only through this refracted angle is he to be apprehended.