Ironic Quotes

358 quotes by 307 authors

Irony ruined everything Even the best exploitation movies were never meant to be `so bad they were good`. They were not made for the intelligentsia.… — John Waters
Certainly, anyone whom I've witnessed, who has gone through something horrible and life-changing, has a sense of ironic humor, or an ability to look at… — Christopher Heyerdahl
It's so ironic. When you finally achieve recognition, you hide behind dark glasses. — Madhuri Dixit
A lot of my friends are club people. It's not me. It's funny to represent that, because it's not me. I don't fit into a… — Randy Harrison
Everybody has that thing where they need to look one way but they come out looking another way and that's what people observe. You see… — Diane Arbus
It's kind of ironic when I broke in at 17, I was told I was too small, too slow and I wouldn't make the NHL — Wayne Gretzky
It's tiny out there...it's inconsequential. It's ironic that we had come to study the Moon and it was really discovering the Earth. — William Anders
Did you ever have a conversation with someone who misunderstood everything you had to say? It's exhausting, and the ironic part is that the more… — Francois Mauriac
Those who condemn the self-righteous for the sake of self-discovery do so with ironic self-righteousness. — Timothy Keller
I'm comfortable looking sexy. I don't push it with poses, although I like the ironic part of it. That's what makes it fun. — Jessica Alba
It's ironic that retailers and restaurants live or die on customer service, yet their employees have some of the lowest pay and worst benefits of… — Howard Schultz
I don't think the nature of my poetry is satirical or even ironic, I think it's essentially lyrical but again I don't know if it's… — Kenneth Koch
How much truth is contained in something can be best determined by making it thoroughly laughable and then watching to see how much joking around… — Peter Sloterdijk
Itâ€™s pretty ironic that the so-called â€˜least advancedâ€™ people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us, while the richest… — Noam Chomsky
I love the combination of smartness, pain, and what one might call conscious postmodern trashiness in this book: a version of the erotic full of… — Alicia Ostriker
The passive ironic attitude is not cool or romantic, but pathetic and destructive. — Robert Greene
The significance of man is that he is insignificant and is aware of it. — Carl L. Becker
Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was the belief in facts. — John Gunther
Large increases in cost with questionable increases in performance can be tolerated only in race horses and fancy women. — Lord Kelvin
Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

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