Irony Quotes

705 Irony quotes by 566 unique authors

Joyfully celebrating the killing of a killer who joyfully celebrated killing carries an irony that I hope will not be lost on us. Are we… — Brian D. McLaren
When you have a good heart: You help too much. You trust too much. You give too much. You love too much. And it always… — Nishan
Even now, the irony that so non-intellectual a man should choose to engage the Soviet Union on the battlefield of ideas has eluded most commentators… — Richard Perle
That books, a commodity little changed since Caxton's day, should have turned out to be the trailblazers of retailing on the internet is one of… — Bryan Appleyard
All in all, I think that out of all musical genres, the world of metal is the most escapist one. Metal is also music for… — Tuomas Holopainen
Here's the irony of this moment on Smackdown: Jimmy crack corn and I DO care. — Todd Grisham
It is an irony of medical history that even as Freud's later work would make him the progenitor of modern psychodynamic psychotherapy, which is generally… — Scott Stossel
Apart from the pleasure of looking at her and listening to her-of enjoying in her what others less discriminatingly but as liberally appreciated-he had the… — Edith Wharton
But it seems an irony of creation that man's mind knows how to handle things the better the farther removed they are from the center… — Hermann Weyl
The surest sign of the estrangement of the opinions of two persons is when they both say something ironical to each other and neither of… — Friedrich Nietzsche
It is one of the ironies of history that reformers so often misjudge the consequences of their reforms. — John W. Gardner
From the moment we are born, the world tends to have a box already built for us to fit inside. Our umbilical cord never seems… — Paige Bradley
A man can be called ruthless if he bombs a country to oblivion. A woman can be called ruthless if she puts you on hold. — Gloria Steinem
The irony of Christmas is always upon the poor in heart; the mystery of the solstice is always upon the rest of us. — John Cheever
People think the Beatles know what's going on. We don't. We're just doing it. — John Lennon
As for George Bush of Kennebunkport, Maine- personally I think he's further evidence that the Great Scriptwriter in the Sky has an overdeveloped sense of… — Molly Ivins
The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony. — Susan Sontag
Jews and homosexuals are the outstanding creative minorities in contemporary urban culture. Creative, that is, in the truest sense: they are creators of sensibilities. The… — Susan Sontag
You write a hit play the same way you write a flop. — William Saroyan
Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world takes… — Douglas Coupland
I like the irony in my work. — Miuccia Prada
I love the irony of movies. I really do. For whatever reason, I'm incredibly intrigued by the irony of reality in a motion picture. — Zack Snyder
And then he says, "The writer must be true to truth." And that's a killer, because the only way you can describe a human being… — Joseph Campbell
It is one of the ironies of the ministry that the very man who works in God's name is often hardest put to find time… — Vance Havner
Being lost is worth the being found. — Neil Diamond

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