Ironic Quotes

358 Ironic quotes by 307 unique authors

Hip-hop's always reached out to kids. If you look at the last 10 big albums it might seem ironic. But when I look at the… — LL Cool J
Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic if it is pulled… — Soren Kierkegaard
I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up. — Tom Lehrer
You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself. — Sam Levenson
Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. — Don Marquis
It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way. — Rollo May
What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things. — Margaret Mead
It's ironic that in our culture everyone's biggest complaint is about not having enough time; yet nothing terrifies us more than the thought of eternity. — Dennis Miller
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility. — Errol Morris
One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence. — Lewis Mumford
There's nothing more ironic or contradictory than life itself. — Robert De Niro
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. — P.J. O'Rourke
I have many friends who are both Mexican and Mexican-American and others who, I guess you would say, are somewhere in between. The ironic thing… — Conor Oberst
We tend to get what we expect. — Norman Vincent Peale
Everything is ironic to me. There are moments I find hysterical, but I'm probably the only one who would find that, except for a few… — River Phoenix
I think people tend to feel odd when I do my act. Unless you are an ironic person, it's not a good place for you… — Colin Quinn
Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding. — Agnes Repplier
I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor's office was full of portraits by Picasso. — Rita Rudner
My husband gave me a necklace. It's fake. I requested fake. Maybe I'm paranoid, but in this day and age, I don't want something around… — Rita Rudner
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts. — Bertrand Russell
John Baldessari, the 79-year-old conceptualist, has spent more than four decades making laconic, ironic conceptual art-about-art, both good and bad. — Jerry Saltz
John Currin's exaggerated realism and his twisted women kept me off balance, never knowing if they were sincere or ironic or some new emotion. — Jerry Saltz
Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
It's ironic that no matter where I go, I meet people from Brooklyn. I'm proud of that heritage. It's where I'm from, who I am. — Howard Schultz
The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else. — George Bernard Shaw

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