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I'm meeting the attic before I meet the girl.
— Colleen Hoover
The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of probably my best poetry.
— Philip Levine
The worst thing about irony for me is that it attenuates emotion.
— David Foster Wallace
Men never forget true love. They always remember all the women they couldn't have.
— Ljupka Cvetanova
The irony of life is we live to work and work to live
— Abdulazeez Henry Musa
I want to get a tattoo of the word irony, only misspelled.
— Anthony Jeselnik
It is the height of irony to prejudge someone of prejudice.
— Tessa Crowley
Everything I love: literature, irony, humor, the individual, and the defense of free expression.
— Christopher Hitchens
Part of the irony of environmentalism is questing for solutions when you know you're part of the problem.
— Diane Ackerman
The irony of life is that those who wear masks often tell us more truths than those with open faces.
— Marie Lu
Often we withhold our affections, waiting first for love to be extended to us. The irony is that we are loved for loving.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
If there's one mystical energy that powers the galaxy, it's not the Force. It's pure, unadulterated irony.
— Chuck Wendig
The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates.
— David Foster Wallace
Catastrophe and exuberance are often partners in the dance of irony.
— Jeff W. Horton
These are the best things I've ever had in my mouth!
— Mora Early
Thank heaven for people who are satisfied with facts that conform to the reality they wish to believe.
— Gary Inbinder
I pound on the glass, screaming my head off. Everyone ignores me except for some Capitol attendant who appears behind me and offers me a beverage.
— Suzanne Collins
It is an unfortunate irony that music-making intended in part to attract new listeners is usually the least well rehearsed and motivated.
— Bernard Holland
Every man is a prisoner, and the greatest irony of all is to be the prisoner of another man.
— Sidney Sheldon
So the reason I was struck again and again was because of my overwhelmingly positive energy. Funny, I'd always thought of myself as a pessimist.
— Jennifer Bosworth
Honesty and unpopular opinions are the toughest sell in a country with an irony-deficiency.
— Greg Proops
When I'm 33, I quit.
— Mick Jagger
It is the central irony of my life that when I want something and end up getting it, it makes me profoundly uncomfortable.
— Jennifer Armintrout
I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Beware belief in anything you read on the Internet.
— Benjamin Franklin
The ironist is ironical not because he does not care, but because he cares too much.
— Randolph Bourne
King Abdullah has died. A divisive figure in the Middle East. The sad irony is that the USA preached democracy in the face of absolute rule.
— Immortal Technique
The newly-minted captain is told to let nothing stop him but to do nothing that would risk his ship or his crew.
— Patrick O'Brian
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
The novel, arguably the author's best, had a disquieting power, like a sleeping crocodile.
— Roberto Bolano
I was not interested in irony; I wanted to emphasize the primacy of the idea in making art.
— Sol LeWitt
Irony is always the best weapon against facism.
— Scott Westerfeld
Yes, well, irony is no protection when you can feel the breeze from his scythe on your skin and hear the rustle of his wings.
— Michael Gruber
The old Televisions had an off switch.
— Chris Bachelder
Irony of the day: arthritis medication with a cap that old people can't get off, because of their arthritis.
— Kelli Jae Baeli
Irony is the word I forget the meaning of immediately after I look it up, but I kind of feel like I live in a constant state of it.
— Maureen Johnson
Irony of the world is that it wants to simplify the complexity and complicate the simplicity.
— Vikrmn
The list could surely go on, and there is nothing more wonderful than a list, instrument of wondrous hypotyposis.
— Umberto Eco
Scriptures, n. The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.
— Ambrose Bierce
I think of the irony that in our language [Nepali] the word for love can also mean deceit.
— Jane Wilson-Howarth
I'm really into the irony of writing vaguely radical plays that instantly win huge establishment awards. It's really amusing.
— Israel Horovitz
We often miss the irony that the same Paul who writes "submit to the authorities" goes to jail and is condemned for subverting the authorities! He
— Shane Claiborne
Just to keep the bad dreams at bay, she took a swig out of a bottle that smelled of apples and happy brain-death.
— Terry Pratchett
My book has a very simple surface, but there are layers of irony and paradox all the way through it.
— Mark Haddon
The irony of justice is that the feelings that precede it and those which fruit from it are never fair and balanced.
— Cecelia Ahern
The world isn't fair? What a huge revelation! Some people in power abuse those they have power over? Amazing! When did this start happening?
— Brandon Sanderson
Once you hold the hand of Death, the only thing in life that can scare you is a sense of humor.
— Lionel Suggs
Our universities are so determined to impose tolerance that they'll expel you for saying what you think and never notice the irony
— John Perry Barlow
Irony: When those who call others a 'threat to Christianity' reject the crucial tenets of their own faith themselves.
— Christina Engela
And now none of it could be undone. That was the exquisite irony: the act that had undone everything could not itself be undone.
— Paul Russell
It is an oversimplification to say that the opposite of irony is oversimplification.
— Jedediah Purdy
The irony of fanaticism is that there is always another group more radical than the previous one.
— Sam Fitzgerald
Do you work for the government, any government?""I pay taxes, which means I work for the government, part of the time. Yes. — Roger Zelazny
Being lost is worth the being found.
— Neil Diamond
Repeat a lie a thousand times and it become a successful political campaign.
— Ljupka Cvetanova
I need an irony punctuation mark for the clueless.
— Gene Weingarten
Seven pillars of wisdom propping the roof of the temple. Always remember what there's beyond the pillars.
— Lara Biyuts
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 is one of history's greatest ironies that, over the centuries, the pursuit of pleasure has resulted in more pain than enjoyment.
— Mardy Grothe
Even the best-laid plans turn to hell when exposed to reality.
— Michael Anthony
That I chose Independence Day as the moment to strike was of course a piece of deliberate irony.
— William Styron
The fuck are you staring at? I hiss at the stranger staring at me in my rearview. Oh, wait, that's me.
— Sean Murphy
Love: the sickest of Irony's sick jokes. The place where logic and order go to die.
— Christopher Moore
My mother never saw the irony of calling me a son of a bitch
— Jack Nicholson
I'll hide it on the Internet
— Taylor Young
But the irony is that unless God's in the center of it, you can get singed pretty badly.
— Julie Lessman
We're not big on irony in Jamaica, sarcasm and double-talk. We tend to say things plainly, sometimes to the point of boredom.
— Marlon James
Irony: a contradictory outcome of events as if in mockery of the promise and fitness of things,
— Celeste Ng
The gods speak to us, and irony is their language.
— Tim W. Burke
The irony of Christmas is always upon the poor in heart; the mystery of the solstice is always upon the rest of us.
— John Cheever
What a cruel irony of fate, to pair together, like Siamese twins united by the shoulders, scientific adversaries of such contrasting character!
— Santiago Ramon Y Cajal
Irony has always seemed the best approach to life, the best way to keep it at arm's length.
— Lawrence Thornton
Worrying about what other people think is a jail of our own creation, and the irony of it is those people are in the same jail with us.
— Srinivas Rao
Irony gives us, at little expense, the impression that we are experienced psychologists.
— Gaston Bachelard
The reason ... our pervasive cultural irony is at once so powerful and so unsatisfying is that an ironist is impossible to pin down.
— David Foster Wallace
The cinema is an invention without any future.
— Louis Lumiere
It's one of the ironies of human nature that the most sensitive people are generally insensitive to the feelings of others.
— Ann Landers
It was growing late, and though one might stand on the brink of a deep chasm of disaster, one was still obliged to dress for dinner.
— Georgette Heyer
