Irony Quotes
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The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of probably my best poetry.
— Philip Levine
In order to grow, I promise you'll have to let go of some habits. 10 times out of 10, they'll be the habits you're most in love with.
— Brandi L. Bates
Irony is wasted on the stupid
— Oscar Wilde
Still, waking up this early was just wrong. "Why can't people be reasonable and only die after eleven A.M.?" I whined.
— Diana Rowland
At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
— Frederick Douglass
Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and a sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery.
— Joseph Wood Krutch
Who else but me is ever going to read these letters?
— Anne Frank
Does anything on you work properly?" Asked ter Borcht."Well, I do have a highly developed sense of irony." Replied Iggy. — James Patterson
I know what irony is.''Okay, Alanis. — Cath Crowley
Irony is an indispensable ingredient of the critical vision; it is the safest antidote to sentimental decay.
— Ellen Glasgow
And of course, the deepest irony about the young being cynical is that they are the ones that need to move, and dance, and trust the most.
— Caitlin Moran
The ballot is stronger than the bullet.
— Abraham Lincoln
While appreciating the beauty around her, Eden considered the darkness that lay ahead.
— Linda Lee Chaikin
Men who retain irony are not to be trusted. They can't always resist an impulse to tickle themselves.
— Taylor Caldwell
I think the French have a romantic cliche that Englishmen have great style, great music, irony and sense of humour. Well, sometimes cliches are true.
— Josephine De La Baume
What irony that in these months since I've been king, not for a day have I lived like one.
— N. Gemini Sasson
Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.
— Anatole France
Laughter and irony are at heart reminders that we are not prisoners in this world, but voyagers through it.
— Eben Alexander
Life is biting into a cupcake and finding an eyeball at its center.
— Alexandra Sirowy
The irony is that musical artists have enormous public voices, but behind the scenes we're voiceless, actually.
— Sinead O'Connor
You said "Hi", I to be polite will say "Bye"!
— Deyth Banger
The South has more of a disproportionate amount of irony on T-shirts than any other region in the country.
— David Cross
The irony is that for poor people like us, an education at Notre Dame is both cheaper and finer. We
— J.D. Vance
Honesty and unpopular opinions are the toughest sell in a country with an irony-deficiency.
— Greg Proops
Irony is a qualification of subjectivity.
— Soren Kierkegaard
If I had but the time and you had but the brain
— Lewis Carroll
I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it.
— Edgar Allan Poe
O masses, o masses! When will you assume the image and likeness of your avant-garde?
— Andrei Platonov
We Americans only voted for George Bush to prove to the British that Americans understand irony. Unfortunately, it kinda backfired.
— Scott Capurro
Irony is one of my favorite aspects of life.
— Wes Studi
Part of the terrible irony of war is that it enlists the best in human nature for purposes of mutual destruction.
— Lesslie Newbigin
I regard everything with irony, including the face I see in the mirror when I wake up in the morning.
— Sam Peckinpah
For with dandies, a joke is the only way of making yourself respected.
— Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly
Irony tyrannizes us. All US irony is based on an implicit 'I don't really mean what I'm saying.
— David Foster Wallace
The things I do for love.
— George R R Martin
Irony, perfect definition: that for which I want to possess it, I would no longer want once I possessed it.
— Karen Marie Moning
It is one of history's greatest ironies that, over the centuries, the pursuit of pleasure has resulted in more pain than enjoyment.
— Mardy Grothe
When readers don't like the book, it's usually because they feel that romantic love is pass or somehow needs more irony.
— Charles Baxter
Doakes had a first name! It was Albert - had anyone ever really called him that? Unthinkable. I had assumed his name was Sergeant.
— Jeff Lindsay
People strive to be ahead of time just to get a chance to trip it.
— Ljupka Cvetanova
Everything becomes symbol and irony when you've been betrayed
— Jay McInerney
Irony is Fate's most common figure of speech.
— Trevanian
Irony is finally you found the perfect one, but there's so many obstacles to make the perfect one yours.
— Nina Ardianti
And she couldn't help but smile at the irony of the fact that the baddest boy in school could somehow always make her feel like the world was good.
— Priscilla Glenn
When you were in least of need, people or objects turned up but when you were in a fraught situation, you would never find them.
— Deepika Kumaaraguru
We aint a sharp species. We kill each other over arguments about what happens when you die, then fail to see the fucking irony in that.
— Justin Halpern
To travel faster than a speeding bullet is not much help if you and it are heading straight towards each other
— John Brunner
Seven pillars of wisdom propping the roof of the temple. Always remember what there's beyond the pillars.
— Lara Biyuts
Do we have to say goodnight? It just feels so final.... And then it feels like I HAVE to go to sleep, and then I just can't...
— Coco Moodysson
The irony is that while God doesn't need us but still wants us, we desperately need God but don't really want Him most of the time.
— Francis Chan
And yet sometimes we become the person we most dread. Or maybe we dread most the person we know we are to become.
— Reif Larsen
They say a woman's loyalty only lasts as long as it takes her to hang up and dial again.
— Kim Gatlin
Love, your own witch-daughter, Queen of the Mirror and the Highest Protector of Irony
— Jostein Gaarder
The universe loves irony even more than it loves futility.
— Paul Russell
You can make fun of yourself and people will laugh at you. If you're smart, you'll end up as a comedian. If you're not, you'll end up as a clown.
— Ljupka Cvetanova
This world made by humans for themselves is most unfriendly towards humans. What irony.
— Pooja Perumal
Don't we all hope to die with a smile on our faces?
— Jeff O'Brien
Adolescence is about digging out the iron inside irony.
— Andy Hargreaves
In the end, the Labour party could cease to represent labour. Stranger historic ironies have happened than that.
— Enoch Powell
If we chose to refuse irony, we risk becoming irony's dupe.
— Janet Beizer
I was not interested in irony; I wanted to emphasize the primacy of the idea in making art.
— Sol LeWitt
Women in love are patheticand I cannot be bothered, for now,
I am back to metaphysics
and my armpits gather hair. — Mie Hansson
irony is that, while secular leadership has become blatantly spiritual, Christian leadership has become blatantly (and blandly) secular.
— Erwin Raphael McManus
Really?""No. I'm being ironic. Or is it sarcastic? I can never remember."
"Irony's cleverer, so you're probably being sarcastic. — Jonathan Stroud
Irony and hip ennui are extremely authoritarian.
— David Foster Wallace
Fundamental belief consoled him for superficial irony.
— Thomas Hardy
Irony, when delivered cold and shaved very, very fine, could sound like amusement.
— Julie Anne Long
Prolific irony - For 8 years, the finger on the button that could end the world belonged to a president who couldn't pronounce the word nuclear.
— T. Rafael Cimino
The irony of the matter is that the future generations do not have a vote. In effect, we hold their proxy.
— Charles J. Hitch
Ironic. I'm here because of my inherent dangerousness, but it's my inherent politeness that makes me put up with this. With him.
— Sophie Jordan
Dangerously well' - what an irony is this: it expresses precisely the doubleness, the paradox, of feeling 'too well
— Oliver Sacks
Good advice is usually given by someone who was once a bad example.
— Ljupka Cvetanova
Irony differentiates. Cynicism never does.
— Paul Horgan
Kill every dog, every cat, she said slowly. Kill every mouse, every bird. Kill every fish. Anyone objects, kill them too.
— George Saunders
Even the best-laid plans turn to hell when exposed to reality.
— Michael Anthony
I feel no grief for being called somethingwhich
I am not;
in fact, it's enthralling, somehow, like a good
back rub — Charles Bukowski
It would be the irony of fate if my administration had to deal chiefly with foreign affairs.
— Woodrow Wilson
Keep trying?I'd rather keep walking. I mean, whisky is whisky — Ljupka Cvetanova
If you don't understand it, it's art.
— Ljupka Cvetanova
The weekly thirty minutes of sexual stress was a chronic but low-grade discomfort, like the humidity in Florida
— Jonathan Franzen
That I chose Independence Day as the moment to strike was of course a piece of deliberate irony.
— William Styron
A constant factor in human history is the need to protect oneself. Another factor is the urge to attack someone else.
— Stan Beckensall
The fuck are you staring at? I hiss at the stranger staring at me in my rearview. Oh, wait, that's me.
— Sean Murphy
Don't you find any irony in a vampire sucking up?
— Heather Brewer
Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.
— Rene Descartes
Even You-Know-Who can't split himself into seven.
— J.K. Rowling
