Ironic Quotes

358 Ironic quotes by 307 unique authors

I love Derrick Brown for the surprise of one word waking up next to another. One moment tender, funny or romantic, the next, visceral, ironic… — Janet Fitch
I don't like the word ironic. I like the word absurdity, and I don't really understand the word 'irony' too much. The irony comes when… — David
Painting can also be too earnest at times and that's a drag. You don't want to go in that direction either. It should be holistic.… — Joe Bradley
We live in an ironic society where even play is turned into work. But the highest existence is not work; the highest level of existence… — Conrad Hyers
It is ironic that Einsteins most creative work, the general theory of relativity, should boil down to conceptualizing space as a medium when his original… — Robert B. Laughlin
I'm shooting a commercial for safe sex. How ironic. Because I don't have that. — Tila Tequila
Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom. — Anatole France
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day. — Robert Frost
The most ironic outcome of the black Civil Rights movement has been the creation of a new black middle class which is increasingly separate from… — Henry Louis Gates
It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull. — Joseph Conrad
A woman tells her doctor, 'I've got a bad back.' The doctor says, 'It's old age.' The woman says, 'I want a second opinion.' The… — Tommy Cooper
It's ironic that at age 32, at probably the greatest moment of my career, with The Godfather having such an enormous success, I wasn't even… — Francis Ford Coppola
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors. — Quentin Crisp
The thing is, comedy's gone in a weird direction. People are really into ironic comedy and fakeness and cleverness. — Louis C. K.
You know, it's ironic to me that Christians want to keep the Ten Commandments in our schools, because Christianity has abrogated four of the Ten… — Alan Dershowitz
It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from our creator, our very self-consciousness, is also the one thing… — Annie Dillard
We face a conflict between civilisation and culture, which used to be on the same side. Civilisation means rational reflection, material wellbeing, individual autonomy and… — Terry Eagleton
I just really don't like being the center of attention that much. It's kind of ironic. — Jimmy Fallon
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool. — Richard P. Feynman
I've never met or spoken to David Lee Roth, yet it's rather ironic that even he's saying Eddie's lying about things. I'm saying he's not… — Sammy Hagar
One man's theology is another man's belly laugh. — Robert A. Heinlein
It is ironic that the United States should have been founded by intellectuals, for throughout most of our political history, the intellectual has been for… — Richard Hofstadter
It's quite ironic I suppose, it's that thing about being in a group when you all start out as friends and then invariably end up… — Peter Hook
Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization. — Victor Hugo
MAC gave me 55 lipsticks to test. These are the same lipsticks I got caught stealing by the police when I was 15. How ironic. — Eddie Izzard

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