Irreverent Quotes

In America few people will trust you unless you are irreverent.

— Norman Mailer

“Everything I came up with seemed irreverent or irrelevant.”

— Patti Smith

The completely irreverent tone was the thing that won me over about the first 'Deadpool' movie.

— David Leitch

“Mine is not an obedient writing. I think that literature as any art has to be irreverent.”

— Reinaldo Arenas

Yogi Berra, Bill Lee, they were irreverent, poked fun at the stodgy owners and managers.

— W. P. Kinsella

Chris Gayle has always been known to be a rather irreverent person.

— Mandira Bedi

Rock musicians are consistent in their disdain and irreverent treatment of Jesus Christ.

— Tim LaHaye

John Lennon was very irreverent and very intelligent.

— Brenda Lee

Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.

— Anonymous

People think because 'Vice' is irreverent and because we're crazy, we're stunt journalists. You know what? I don't actually care.

— Shane Smith

I'm a happy guy. I like to joke around. I'm irreverent. I love my family; I love my son. I was very…

— Neymar

I love Clint Eastwood, and I wish to work with him again. He's completely irreverent about everything, including his own beautiful work.

— Laura Dern

I hope it will not be irreverent in me to say, that if it be probable that God would reveal his will…

— Abraham Lincoln

First in violence, deepest in dirt, lawless, unlovely, ill-smelling, irreverent, new; an overgrown gawk of a - village, the "tough" among cities,…

— Lincoln Steffens

I love being irreverent. But I hate being irrelevant. I love being irreverent because at the end of the day your actions…

— Esai Morales

for me the most fun of my career is to bring a little bit of irreverence to characters. And, you know, I…

— Dean Winters

I think I definitely want to blame my parents on this one. One of the things about having a minister for a…

— Matt Ruff

Toyin Falola has given us what is truly rare in modern African writing: a seriously funny, racy, irreverent package of memories, and…

— Ama Ata Aidoo

Most of the drug CEOs I know, they're not themselves - they're what people want them to be. It's pretty obvious of…

— Martin Shkreli

“Our advertising and even our arts convey the idea that we [Americans] as a society are brash, irreverent, and free of all…

— Garret Keizer

Man is made of the wholly common, and custom is his nurse; woe then to them who lay irreverent hands on his…

— Friedrich Schiller

We pray for those who have ceased to pray. We pray for those that need prayer more than ever, that have fewer…

— Henry Ward Beecher

As gay people, we always think outside of the box. The irreverent is always important to a drag queen and anyone else…

— RuPaul

As a comedian, I am obligated to tell you the truth, my truth. To share with you my beliefs, my perspective. And…

— Dane Cook

Birdscapes moves rather like those swallows, dipping and swerving to pick up all sorts of items of interest. Mynott tells plenty of…

— Robert O. Paxton

Faith always presented to the mind the idea of an abnormal intellectual condition, of the subversion or suspension of the critical faculties.…

— William Edward Hartpole Lecky

Thanks for looking out for her, Sage. You're okay. For a human." I almost laughed. "Thanks." "You can say it too, you…

— Richelle Mead

Speak not of guilt, speak not of responsibility. When the Regiment of the Senses parades by, with music, and with banners; when…

— C.P. Cavafy

There were two recording studios in Bellingham. One was really expensive, a "nice studio." We were at the point where we were…

— Ben Gibbard

Whereas modern cynicism brought despair about the ability of the human species to realize laudable ideals, postmodern cynicism doesn't — not because…

— Robert Wright

When I first got to the White House, I was super anxious all the time about not knowing the answer to every…

— Alyssa Mastromonaco

I am approached with the most opposite opinions and advice, and that by religious men, who are equally certain that they represent…

— Abraham Lincoln

“You’ve always called me irreverent. You’ve branded me irreverent. In my mind you invented irreverent.”

— Chloe Caldwell

I wanted to make youthful, irreverent anthems. Parents might not get it, but kids would.

— Kesha

I hate the irreverent rabble and keep them far from me.

— Horace

I think that, to some degree, being irreverent is the only reason I continue to be successful.

— Sia

I guess the tone of jokes is often, at best, irreverent, but it always comes from a place of deep love.

— John Oliver

I mean, the thing is, is that Britain has got a great tradition of irreverent political satire.

— Ash Sarkar

I like 'The Simpsons' quite a lot. I love the irreverent character of the whole show. It's great.

— Brian Greene

I'm dirty, I'm irreverent - but I'm still a very topical comedian.

— Ralphie May