Irony Quotes

705 Irony quotes by 566 unique authors

The irony of the information age is that it lends credibility to uninformed opinion. — Stephen Coonts
Studies of volunteers have shown there is a benefit to performing acts of love for other people. The irony is that it is actually in… — Bernie Siegel
It was not possible for us to produce the same optimism and the same kind of humour or irony. Actually, it was not irony. Lichtenstein… — Gerhard Richter
A sharp sense of the ironic can be the equivalent of the faith that moves mountains. Far more quicky than reason or logic, irony can… — Moss Hart
Well, certainly one of the ironies of the success of affirmative action is that the middle class within the black community no longer lives within… — Henry Louis Gates
Hollywood is a place of great irony at all times. — Mark Canton
There's a delicious irony in seeing private luxury jets flying in to Washington, D.C., and people coming off of them with tin cups in their… — Gary Ackerman
Henry Blodget does occasionally have a new idea. If you're making a point about aggregation or the emptiness of modern journalism, he's far from the… — Nick Denton
Skype is a wonderful thing. The irony is that you never Skype when you're in the same country as someone. — Richard Fleeshman
Enhancement not only allows the possibilities of a healthy fullness and exuberance, but of a rather ominous extravagance, aberration, monstrosity ... This danger is built… — Oliver Sacks
That's the irony in the work: the best stories are the worst things that happen. My best times were somebody else's worst. — Michael Connelly
United Nations peacekeepers are going all over the world spreading AIDS even while they're trying to bring peace. What a supreme irony. — Richard Holbrooke
Perhaps the saddest irony of depression is that suicide happens when the patient gets a little better and can again function sufficiently. — Dick Cavett
Heaven has fashioned a knife of irony to stab me with. — Rachel Hartman
Humour allows us to see that ultimately things don't make sense. The only thing that truly makes sense is letting go of anything we continue… — Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche
We didn't understand irony yet in the '80s; we just kind of existed at face value, so there was no nerd cool yet because the… — Chris Hardwick
We Americans only voted for George Bush to prove to the British that Americans understand irony. Unfortunately, it kinda backfired. — Scott Capurro
The only way to win a power struggle is to give it up. — Robert Mandel
A $20 haircut hardly ever lasts longer than a $5 haircut. — Wes Smith
It is in the irony of things that the theatre should be the most dangerous place for the actor. But, then, after all, the world… — Minnie Maddern Fiske
The antidote to hubris, to overweening pride, is irony, that capacity to discover and systematize ideas. — Ralph Ellison
Our universities are so determined to impose tolerance that they'll expel you for saying what you think and never notice the irony — John Perry Barlow
Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do — Soren Kierkegaard
It is one of the ironies of biographical art that some details are more relevant than others, and many details have no relevance at all. — Paul Bailey
Advertisers like that because they want you to feel their product isn't normal - this perfume isn't normal, this set of lingerie isn't normal. The… — Cary Cooper

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