Best Irony Lines
705 Irony quotes by 566 unique authors
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To some, the temporal triumph of the Christian community in the world is a sign of God's favor and the essential righteousness of the Christian…
— Peter J. Gomes
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I’ll work my way from irony to sincerity in the sinking city, a would-be Whitman of the vulnerable grid.
— Ben Lerner
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It's an irony of our times that men seeking peace must make war.
— Mark Lawrence
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The irony of conversing with a stranger is that your individual lives always look very different and personal, but then you strip away the nuances…
— Charlie Peacock
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Corporate irony not only ridicules the thing it is selling but the very act of selling it. In the process it disarms critics by making…
— David Denby
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Irony is the attendant of hope and the fuel of hope is innocence.
— Paul Fussell
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I regard everything with irony, including the face I see in the mirror when I wake up in the morning.
— Sam Peckinpah
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Faith is a luxury for those who are able to ignore what the rest of us must see every day. Pessimism, distrust, and irony are…
— Brando Skyhorse
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Royal Young's writing is that rare blend of irony and beauty.
— Simon Van Booy
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Ah, woman. She is an enigma. An anomaly of perfection & irony. She can lure angels into her arms & give birth to a nation…
— Ace Antonio Hall
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On the other hand, I view the whole matter from a cosmic perspective. I don't take a position. I believe that there are no more…
— Peter Greenaway
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I think my films are very English. That certain emotional distance, interest in the world, interest in irony. These are all deeply English propositions.
— Peter Greenaway
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It's one of the ironies of investing. The rich can afford to take risks, but they don't need to. The poor need to take risks,…
— Jonathan Clements
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Laughter and irony are at heart reminders that we are not prisoners in this world, but voyagers through it.
— Eben Alexander
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We all want to be special, to stand out; there's nothing wrong with this. The irony is that every human being is special to start…
— Karl Marlantes
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Adolescence is about digging out the iron inside irony.
— Andy Hargreaves
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In golf your strengths and weaknesses will always be there. If you could improve your weaknesses, you would improve your game. The irony is that…
— Harvey Penick
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Irony is the hardest addiction of all. Forget heroin. Just try giving up irony, the deep-down need to mean two things at once, to be…
— Edward St Aubyn
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Speakers find joy in public speaking when they realize that a speech is all about the audience, not the speaker. Most speakers are so caught…
— Nick Morgan
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I do not think it is logical to try and outsmart the smartest people. Instead, my weapons are irony and paradox. The joy of life…
— Hugh Jackman
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Phones with numerical keypads worked best for dialing phone calls. Incidentally, phone calls tend to be the primary function of a phone. 'Smartphones' completely ignore…
— Ashly Lorenzana
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We say we love flowers, yet we pluck them. We say we love trees, yet we cut them down. And people still wonder why some…
— Unknown Author
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You can't top that remark for hypocrisy or the setting for irony. It isn't the middle class who write $32,500 checks. Those who do expect…
— Jack Kelly
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The more repression there is, the more need there is for irreverence toward those who are responsible for that repression. But too often sarcasm passes…
— Paul Krassner
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When you know that everything happens for the best, then everything that happens is okay with you. The irony of this is that when everything…
— Neale Donald Walsch
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