It is sometimes easier to be happy if you don't know everything. — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
It is an oversimplification to say that the opposite of irony is oversimplification. — Jedediah Purdy Copy Share Image
“So you thought you could shit and eat at the same time. How disgustingly convenient.” — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
It's so ironic. The one's who claim they're evolving don't ever change. — Andrew Cervantes Copy Share Image
It's funny how loving yourself is being full of yourself, and hating yourself is being attention seeking. — Ramandeep Singh Copy Share Image
“It seems fine to revolt in front of all, but apologizing fro the same in a similar situation makes you feel small… — Kruthika Swaminathan Copy Share Image
There's some irony in playing a journalist after some of the stuff that has been written about me, but it's a great… — James Nesbitt Copy Share Image
Even the notion that, you know,[Bill] Clinton was the black president strikes me as the greatest irony of all times. — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Irony gives us, at little expense, the impression that we are experienced psychologists. — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
“This is a fundamental irony of most people’s lives. They don’t quite know what they want to do with their lives. Yet… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
I adore jokes. They're a theatrical contrivance, but the irony of all fiction is that you approach reality by avoiding it a… — Paul Morrissey Copy Share Image
It's ironic when the people who say they understand what you're going through, they haven't been what you were through. — Cuts And Scars Copy Share Image
“The phrase, ‘dollars to donuts’ came suddenly to mind. Because of the last several decades of hyperinflation, the phrase has been replaced… — Daniel Thorman Copy Share Image
“The irony of commitment is that it's deeply liberating -- in work, in play, in love. The act frees you from the… — Anne Morris Copy Share Image
The other thing I said is the great irony is you will be back fighting against your own weapons. Had [Bashar] Assad… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
(On The International Criminal Court) "For the victors of the Cold War to submit to an unelected, unaccountable, and almost certainly hostile… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I went to university for a couple of years and I didn't enjoy university. The studying and the accountancy, economics, I just… — Gerry Harvey Copy Share Image
“The pain breached through the indolence of mind. But the dizziness made reactions very slow and stretched, like a novice stage actor… — Abhish Copy Share Image
“They only asked for punishments that fitted their crimes. Not ones that came like cupboards with built-in bedrooms. Not ones you spent… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
It was not possible for us to produce the same optimism and the same kind of humour or irony. Actually, it was… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Even though I want to expand the number of ways in which skilful ironic play happens, I suspect I'm probably guilty of… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Woodrow Wilson is reported to have told a Princeton colleague, shortly after the 1912 election, "It would be an irony of fate… — James M Strock Copy Share Image
We did not choose to believe that personal choice is the highest human virtue. Rather, we were taught, formed, forced to believe… — William Henry Willimon Copy Share Image
“Postmodern irony and cynicism’s become an end in itself, a measure of hip sophistication and literary savvy. Few artists dare to try… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Our whole intention was to make a record of songs that we grew up with and change them up a little bit,… — Bart Millard Copy Share Image
The problem with Keith Ellison's message and what you all are saying - and I - and I respect what you're saying… — Mary Matalin Copy Share Image
In the modern Christian attempt to take a stand as Christ did, and maybe for others, win the approval of the world,… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
To move from a discussion of the early relationship between theatre and television to an examination of the current situation of live… — Philip Auslander Copy Share Image
What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
“My mom, she sometimes resided in the space between irony and sincerity.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Copy Share Image