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But though it had prevailed against such fierce adversaries as fire and flood, it had fallen victim softly and swiftly to television in the 1960's. — Kate Morton

There's no such thing as an ex-marine. — EX-MARINES

He sure put things into words good. — S.E. Hinton

While the man is putting on it's shoes, the woman can buy dozens of high heels. — Ljupka Cvetanova

Regrets are a waste of time and waste of time brings about regrets. It's the best ironic cycle after life and death! — Adhish Mazumder

You know, there's a certain irony in the fact that our lives and perhaps the lives of everyone on Earth may depend on Captain Patterson's sex appeal. — Charles Beaumont

That's the difference between irony and sarcasm. Irony can be spontaneous, while sarcasm requires volition. You have to create sarcasm. — Christopher Moore

And it was strange, I thought, that sorrow lasts and can make a man look forward to death, but the mood of victory fills a moment and then is over — V.S. Naipaul

I'm sucking on a cancer stick trying to think of something inspiring to say to help someone have a better life. That's "Irony". — Stanley Victor Paskavich

It's not necrophilia if she still has a pulse... — Scott Jonathan Nixon

Irony - The modern mode: either the devil's mark or the snorkel of sanity. — Julian Barnes

In Jewish folk music, despair is disguised as the dance. And so, truth's disguise was irony. — Julian Barnes

It's an irony of our times that men seeking peace must make war. — Mark Lawrence

I don't embrace irony, but I do think it's a pre-existing condition; we manage it as best we can. — Fred Tomaselli

Regent's Park was looking to the Met for an injection of integrity, it was in serious danger of an irony meltdown. — Mick Herron

Commercial comedy's often set up to feature an ironist making
devastating sport of someone who's naive or sentimental or pretentious or
pompous. — David Foster Wallace

I suppose longevity requires giving up life's pleasures, one by one, until there's nothing left. — Gary Inbinder

Hindsight is usually more tragic than helpful. — Linda S. Godfrey

It's exciting to work with the kids so devoid of irony, so unguarded. And also terrifying. — Ron Suskind

I do love irony. It's so ... complicated and coincidental. — Cassandra Kemper

To say "He was a young fool, and now he's an old fool" is to make a distinction without a difference. — Gary Inbinder

Of all America's natural resources, its richest is an inexhaustible vein of irony. — Markham Shaw Pyle

I believe in irony. And if V-Day has taught me anything, it's that if you go out with artistic, outrageous irony and humor, people are drawn to it. — Eve Ensler

It's an irony... that we understand humans like the foreign languages... full of miss understanding and miss conceptions. — Deyth Banger

What's fair and what's true often bear no resemblance to each other. — Garon Whited

These were the moments I wished I were dead, when I was too weak to do anything about it. It was nature's cruel irony, stringing me along. — Pepper Winters

He has his head in the clouds. He must live in a skyscraper. — Ljupka Cvetanova

Too bad the guards are looking for irony. It's everywhere in here. — Mark Olmsted

There's something about Vonnegut's deadpan irony that I really like. And I like Borges' puzzle structure. — Ruth Ozeki

John Wesley's own grave holds the bones of many other people, including at least five ministers. One can only imagine the bickering. — Jared Brock

Irony, entertaining as it is, serves an almost exclusively negative function. It's critical and destructive, a ground-clearing — David Foster Wallace

Yes, of course that's true but you know, the irony of all that is that before the accident, I'd pretty much lost interest in playing drums. — Rick Allen

There's nothing wrong with giving up all your principles for a suitable financial reward. It is indeed the basis of our society. — Manny Rayner

Your weaknesses may not seem overwhelming, but they will create the biggest problems you face. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Irony is a great tool to deal with things. It's an intellectualization, a way to go above things, which can work. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Sometimes, the embers are better then the campfire. It's strange, but it's true. — Stephen King

I sheep's idea of bravery : To become a wolf's pet. — Ljupka Cvetanova

Irony is a treacherous servant; unless it's very carefully watched over, it has a tendency to expose the foolishness of its apparent master. — Mark O'Connell

That's the trouble with honorable mentions: they let everyone know you applied and didn't win. — Nancy Mairs

Irony is a way of having one's cake while appearing to eat it. — John Updike

Life's Irony; It is not only the poor that needs gifts, the rich also love to be gifted. — Auliq Ice

The fool's crime is the crime that is found out and the wise man's crime is the crime that is not found out. — Wilkie Collins

Irony--it's funny until it happens to you. — Bill Morris

And it's really very difficult to kill someone when all your inner instincts would oblige you to take off your hat first! — Susan Kay

Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony. — Douglas Coupland

The novel, arguably the author's best, had a disquieting power, like a sleeping crocodile. — Roberto Bolano

Life is full of little ironies, but it's also pockmarked with some the size of that big rock in Australia. — Rick Yancey

A True Born Englishman's a contradiction!
In speech and irony, in fact a fiction — Daniel Defoe

What would we do without irony? Check out your own daily reliance on it, the foul-weather friend who's there for you when nothing else is. — Robin Morgan

Aujourd'hui, rien.
That's what Louis XVI wrote in his diary on the day of the storming of the Bastille. — Jo Walton

Making a film that's supposed to be fun to watch is really hard - that's the weird irony of it. — Steven Soderbergh

That is a zombie ... Holy fucking shit. That's a mother fucking zombie and this shit is real. — Diana Rowland

imagine there's no heaven..." he said. "Apparently someone is taking that personally. — E.J. Copperman

The machine captured that old sense of irony in death: you can know how it's going to happen, but you'll still be surprised when it does. — Ryan North

It's kind of a terrible irony, in a way, that the solution to America's problems was World War II. — William O'Neill

Seven pillars of wisdom propping the roof of the temple. Always remember what there's beyond the pillars. — Lara Biyuts

But that's men all over ... Poor dears, they can't help it. They haven't got logical minds. — Dorothy L. Sayers

O The irony of man, he thinks he's past generation did not repeat the same way of thinking, either intelligently or foolishly. — A Gentleman

That was the last cruel irony of Tobias's life: that he doomed the woman he would have died to save. — Cassandra Clare

That's the beautiful thing about innocence; even monsters have a pocketful of childhood memories with which to seek comfort with. — Dave Matthes

Here's the irony of this moment on Smackdown: Jimmy crack corn and I DO care. — Todd Grisham

When it's hardest to pray are usually the times I need to pray the hardest. Not sure if that's irony or common sense. — Mark Hart

It's a strange kind of irony. The things that affect us most are the things we can't remember (from Swimming Upstream). — Ruth Mancini

So we came to say hello. To the world's grouchiest person. Because that's such fun. — Molly Ringle

It makes me sad, the way human beings talk smack. It's why I don't like irony. People are too gleeful to put some teeth into something. — Ian MacKaye

The thing about changing the world ... Once you do it, the world's all different. — Joss Whedon

Irony is Fate's most common figure of speech. — Trevanian

Whenever you feel like feeling like a devil's advocate, Bible-thump. That, in a worldly world, is the great irony and satire of evangelism. — Criss Jami

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

It's no small irony that the government inevitably and invariably ends up promoting precisely that which they would most like to repress. — Jock Sturges

Irony is finally you found the perfect one, but there's so many obstacles to make the perfect one yours. — Nina Ardianti

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

I feel no grief for being called something
which
I am not;
in fact, it's enthralling, somehow, like a good
back rub — Charles Bukowski

If you don't understand it, it's art. — Ljupka Cvetanova

The fuck are you staring at? I hiss at the stranger staring at me in my rearview. Oh, wait, that's me. — Sean Murphy

If we chose to refuse irony, we risk becoming irony's dupe. — Janet Beizer

They say a woman's loyalty only lasts as long as it takes her to hang up and dial again. — Kim Gatlin

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

Either help or give up. Right now devil's advocate is just another name for asshole. — James S.A. Corey

Irony has always seemed the best approach to life, the best way to keep it at arm's length. — Lawrence Thornton

But the irony is that unless God's in the center of it, you can get singed pretty badly. — Julie Lessman

Thanks," Johann finally said. "It's the irony of war. Those who want to live, die. Those who want to die, live on. — Lee Strauss

There's a certain amount of what I wear that I wear for irony. — Lily Allen

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

She had a flower tattoo on her wrist; "What does that mean?" he asked her. "Absolutely nothing," she said, "it's just a flower. — C. JoyBell C.

Love: the sickest of Irony's sick jokes. The place where logic and order go to die. — Christopher Moore

It's shameful for a devil to be good. — Ljupka Cvetanova

Life's irony is that as soon as worldly goods and worldly success are of no concern to you, the way is open for them to flow to you. — Neale Donald Walsch

It's one of the ironies of human nature that the most sensitive people are generally insensitive to the feelings of others. — Ann Landers

I really think [the Bush Administration]'s foreign policy agenda is to spread irony through the world. — Jon Stewart

Now that's true poetic irony. I rush into battle to defend the fair name of Rose Larkin, and what does she do but fetch Robert to stop me. — Franny Billingsley

It's just like an alcoholic to think he's doing the Zombie Apocalypse wrong. — Michele W. Miller

She talks about how she can't exercise because of the ailments-a bad back, sore knees, breathing difficulties-all caused by her weight gain. — A.S. King

That's the irony in the work: the best stories are the worst things that happen. My best times were somebody else's worst. — Michael Connelly

Think people really want to know what's out there?"
"Probably not. People don't know what they want, Evelyn, or life wouldn't suck — Lizzy Ford

If Socrates was alive today he would say : I know that I know everything. That's what contemporary philosophers do. — Ljupka Cvetanova

You see, cancer is simply nature's way of making you want to die.'

Tatsu. — Barry Eisler

I'm being ironic. Don't interrupt a man in the midst of being ironic, it's not polite. There! — Ray Bradbury

If she's really psychic," Zack said when he saw Tanisha's photo at school, "why does she need a doorbell? — Joan Bauer

I BELIEVE EVERYONE IS SPECIAL ...
BUT SOME PEOPLE THINK .
. IT'S JUST ANOTHER WAY OF SAYING NO-ONE IS — ASHISH RANJAN