Irony Quotes · Page 36

“I've never written a quote I feel would be suitable for my gravestone. Wouldn't it be ironic if it were this one?…

— Ryan Lilly

Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.

— Lionel Trilling

Irony limits, finitizes, and circumscribes and thereby yields truth, actuality, content; it disciplines and punishes and thereby yields balance and consistency.

— Soren Kierkegaard

Irony is higher taxes for celibatarian's, and lower taxes for the child bearing couples who are placing a greater demand on public…

— Grass Hopper

Just because there are plenty of fish in the sea. Doesn't mean any of them will like you.

— Anonymous

“The great irony of growing up is that it’s often once you leave your parents’ home that you understand them the most.…

— Scaachi Koul

I think that you can fall into bad habits with comedy... It's a tightrope to stay true to the character, true to…

— Ben Kingsley

“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

Between "just desserts" and "tragic irony" we are given quite a lot of scope for our particular talent. Generally speaking, things have…

— Tom Stoppard

“Some [jests] are becoming to a gentleman, others are not; see that you choose such as become you . Irony better befits…

— Aristotle

Okay, so maybe I'm romantic... but somebody is supposed to be romantic. Some warrior is supposed to go to war against the…

— Sherman Alexie

The great irony of executive compensation is, if you pay your employees more, you're gonna create more demand for your goods and…

— Anthony Scaramucci

Melodrama is one of the most stunning art forms. These are stories where the emotions are big, and the situations are big,…

— James Gray

The irony or humor of my pieces is never really calculated, but they somehow always end up that way. Humor, especially when…

— Larissa Sansour

There's a large strain of irony in our human affairs... Interwoven with our affairs is this wonderful spirit of irony which prevents…

— Malcolm Muggeridge

To me the biggest irony of this lifetime that I'm living is that for someone who thrives in the public eye in…

— Alanis Morissette

“The irony of Barack Obama is this: He has become the most successful black politician in American history by avoiding the radioactive…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

It’s dangerous to assume that because a person is drawn to holiness in his study that he is thereby a holy man.…

— Anonymous

Mann is widely recognized as a master of irony and ambiguity, yet it's remarkable how quickly people foreclose options he carefully leaves…

— Philip Kitcher

Truth offends everyone outside its definitions. But the irony of truth is that the greater its potential for offense, the greater its…

— David Jeremiah

Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.

— Agnes Repplier

“What irony that in these months since I've been king, not for a day have I lived like one.”

— N. Gemini Sasson

The person that you trust is the one that hurts you the most and the one that you hurt is the one…

— Sherrice Hodge

Americans don't understand irony? I am an intelligent person living in the United States. My entire existence is ironic.

— Marc Maron

“It is a truth widely recognized that tyranny stems from the consent of the governed as much as democracy does.”

— Eric Robert Morse

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

— Ruth Ozeki

“The enemy was irony and truth and hypocrisy, that was the real enemy. That was the enemy that was killing him.”

— James McBride

“You are so lost to your higher self that you would resent me for my achievements, rather than celebrate them with me,…

— Ayn Rand

The irony of course is that when we criticize someone, often we have the same imperfections ourselves.

— Senora Roy

A day like today is not a day for soundbites, really. But I feel the hand of history upon our shoulders. I…

— Tony Blair

I hear you say I love you. I just smile and nod. Cause I know that you don't mean it while I…

— Anonymous

“The huge irony is that the more the gospel is offered in consumer terms, the more the consumers are disappointed.”

— Eugene H. Peterson

“Irony of "importance": Those who deserve, don't get it; Those who don't, get it in abundance by you.”

— Shivam Singh

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— Michael Perry

“The irony of advertising, a communications business, is that we treat words with little respect, devaluing their meaning.”

— John Kenney

“If your philosophy can be explained in a tweet, you're a moron. That's my philosophy. Wait...”

— T.J. Kirk

Dangerously well’— what an irony is this: it expresses precisely the doubleness, the paradox, of feeling ‘too well

— Oliver Sacks

guess they forgot to program us with any respect for authority." "well, I have a highly developed sense of irony.

— James Patterson

“...You know, one good apple can spoil the rest,” Colonel Korn concluded with conscious irony.”

— Joseph Heller

“I want to live where irony meets kindness, where daring meets bullshit, where everything that failed meets the hope that something might…

— Anonymous