Ironic Quotes

358 Ironic quotes by 307 unique authors

I think it's ironic that I fell in love with a man I thought I would never be interested in because he's an athlete. I… — Jessica Simpson
I dream for a living. — Steven Spielberg
Always be sincere, even if you don't mean it. — Harry S. Truman
That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false. — Paul Valery
What 'Scream' was great at was presenting ironic detachment and then making you actually care about the people that were having it, and juxtaposing it… — Joss Whedon
The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised. — George Will
Bonobo studies started in the '70s and came to fruition in the '80s. Then in the '90s, all of a sudden, boom, they ended because… — Frans de Waal
Marketers spend millions developing strategies to identify children's predilections and then capitalize on their vulnerabilities. Young people are fooled for a while, but then develop… — Douglas Rushkoff
What cannot be said above all must not be silenced but written. — Jacques Derrida
A young writer is easily tempted by the allusive and ethereal and ironic and reflective, but the declarative is at the bottom of most good… — Garrison Keillor
Nobody can write such ironic things unless he has a deep sense of injustice-injustice to those members of the race who are victims of the… — Franklin P. Adams
People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the… — Bill Watterson
Every war is ironic because every war is worse than expected. Every war constitutes an irony of situation because its means are so melodramatically disproportionate… — Paul Fussell
With every mistake, we must surely be learning. — George Harrison
If you think this Universe is bad, you should see some of the others. — Philip K. Dick
Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it. — Rene Descartes
Don’t underestimate the value of irony—it is extremely valuable. — Henry James
Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied. — Jane Austen
The prince of darkness is a gentleman! — William Shakespeare
What a gulf between impression and expression! That’s our ironic fate—to have Shakespearean feelings and (unless by some billion-to-one chance we happen to be Shakespeare)… — Aldous Huxley
How ironic is it to see a bumper sticker that says 'Jesus is the answer' next to a bumper sticker supporting the war in Iraq,… — Shane Claiborne
Sometimes I feel like a caretaker of a museum -- a huge, empty museum where no one ever comes, and I'm watching over it for… — Haruki Murakami
Who would have ever thought I'd be afraid of a zombie, any kind of zombie? Nicely ironic that. — Laurell K. Hamilton
I sit watching the brown oceanic waves of dry country rising into the foothills and I weep monotonously, seasickly. Life is not like the dim… — Alice Munro
It was the essence of life to disbelieve in death for one's self, to act as if life would continue forever. And life had to… — Philip Jose Farmer

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