“Irony was new to her and tasted oddly good, like a previously unavailable summer fruit.” — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
Large increases in cost with questionable increases in performance can be tolerated only in race horses and fancy women. — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
“People need irony in order to build interpersonal trust based on self-knowledge, humor and critical thinking.” — Hanzi Freinacht Copy Share Image
“Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.” — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Love or hate me .your choice but to choose you have to think about me .so never say you didn't think about… — Miranda Copy Share Image
Life's irony is that as soon as worldly goods and worldly success are of no concern to you, the way is open… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
“They had supported him ... for freedom's sake, they would have said; meaning as do all men who mouth that catchword, freedom… — Margaret Butler Copy Share Image
I think the irony ... is that I actually would like to see a relatively light touch when it comes to the government. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“I scrupulously hide every legitimate reason for people to hate me, and it turns out they don’t need legitimate reasons. Heaven has… — Rachel Hartman Copy Share Image
There's terrific merit in having no sense of humour, no sense of irony, practically no sense of anything at all. If you're… — Peter Cook Copy Share Image
“If we ran Nigeria like this cell," he said, "we would have no problems in this country. Things are so organized. Our… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
By an irony of fate, my first employment was as a draughtsman. I hated drawing; it was for me the very worst… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
One of the outstanding ironies of history is the utter disregard of ranks and titles in the final judgments men pass on… — Samuel Logan Brengle Copy Share Image
Van Gogh was so under appreciated in his time, he sold only one of his 900 paintings while alive. Posthumously, he became… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
There's a grosser irony about Politically Correct English. This is that PCE purports to be the dialect of progressive reform but is… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Fear is the number one reason why people do not take action. The divine irony is that most of the fears we… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
You fail to see the one who loves you standing right in front as does she fail to see you love her… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Whatever we may think of the merits of torturing children for pleasure, and no doubt there is much to be said on… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Peter, who broke his enemies on the rack and hanged them in Red Square, who had his son tortured to death, is… — Robert K. Massie Copy Share Image
It is part of the irony of life that the strongest feelings of devoted gratitude of which human nature seems to be… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“It’s more believable that a cop would get involved in solving these murders. I mean, you’re talking about writing a series. How… — Josh Lanyon Copy Share Image
The irony is this: Our bodies react to stress in exactly the same way whether or not we have a good reason… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He looks at you like you're someone he's never met before, much less someone he once loved with high passion. The irony… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“sometimes when everything seems at its worst when all conspires and gnaws and the hours, days, weeks years seem wasted – stretched… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“Meanwhile, the object of your adoration has now become repulsed by you. He looks at you like you're someone he's never met… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I think here is the irony of American history. We don't have an established church. When you have an established church nobody… — Eric Foner Copy Share Image
A third variety of drama ... begins as tragedy with scraps of fun in it ... and ends in comedy without mirth… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
My dad is so unique in what he does. It's not like I'm taking a torch from him and doing his thing.… — Willie Geist Copy Share Image
When irony first makes itself known in a young man's life, it can be like his first experience of getting drunk; he… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Women have always been more critical of marriage than men. The great mysterious irony of it is - at least it's the… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
What happens when we're dead? The irony is that all our questions wil be answered after we die. We spend our whole… — John Ryman Copy Share Image
Most relationships tend to fail not because of the absence of love, but because love is always present. It's just that one… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In a world where irony reigns, where you have to separate, protect and laugh at anything that is honest or has an… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
“But the people only talked about how ugly her face looked. No one even bothered to mention what a sweet, kindhearted girl… — Janaki Sooriyarachchi Copy Share Image
I think the Republican tax law is so bad that it almost guarantees a Republican victory, precisely because it's so bad. The… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
Richard Branson once said: 'Tony's very good at selling bands and he's very good at making television programmes. But he'll never be… — Tony Wilson Copy Share Image
“Even in dying, a Thennanin ship was reputed to be not worth putting out of its misery. In battle they were slow,… — David Brin Copy Share Image
“A good conversation is the only human equivalent: the realizing that decent points are being made and understood, that irony is in… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“That Jim Crow there in the window," answered the urchin, holding out a cent, and pointing to the gingerbread figure that had… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“Anyway, if the Cetagandans really wanted to assassinate you, they'd hardly do it here. They'd slip something subtle under your skin that… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
