Irony Quotes

705 Irony quotes by 566 unique authors

Human nature is pretty shabby stuff, as you may know from introspection. — Peter De Vries
I like grit, I like love and death, I'm tired of irony. ... A lot of good fiction is sentimental. ... The novelist who refuses… — Jim Harrison
Sadness is the matrix from which wit and irony spring; sadness is uncomfortable and creative, which is why consumer society cannot tolerate it. — Germaine Greer
It is photography itself that creates the illusion of innocence. Its ironies of frozen narrative lend to its subjects an apparent unawareness that they will… — Ian Mcewan
Everyone is always going through tough things, the irony in it is that everyone thinks what they're going through is just as hard as what… — Nicholas Sparks
Irony - The modern mode: either the devil’s mark or the snorkel of sanity. — Julian Barnes
Relate comic things in pompous fashion. Irregularity, in other words the unexpected, the surprising, the astonishing, are essential to and characteristic of beauty. Two fundamental… — Charles Baudelaire
...his job was the very least important part of his life, never to be mentioned except in irony. — Richard Yates
From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent. — H P Lovecraft
I am a connoisseur of fine irony. 'Tis a bit like fine wine, but it has a better bite. — Lynn Kurland
Everything becomes symbol and irony when you've been betrayed — Jay McInerney
A mouth of no distinction but well practiced, before I entered my teens, in irony. For what is irony but the repository of hurt? And… — Joyce Carol Oates
I feel as if one would only discover on one's death-bed what one ought to have lived for, and realise too late that one's life… — Bertrand Russell
The irony is that while God doesn’t need us but still wants us, we desperately need God but don’t really want Him most of the… — Francis Chan
And make no mistake: irony tyrannizes us. The reason why our pervasive cultural irony is at once so powerful and so unsatisfying is that an… — David Foster Wallace
The real marriage of true minds is for any two people to possess a sense of humor or irony pitched in exactly the same key,… — Edith Wharton
Irony is Fate's most common figure of speech. — Trevanian
When it was over, she gathered him in her arms. And told him the terrible irony of her life. That she had wanted to be… — Melina Marchetta
Ghastly," continued Marvin, "it all is. Absolutely ghastly. Just don't even talk about it. Look at this door," he said, stepping through it. The irony… — Douglas Adams
Walking over to Iggy, he poked him with his shoe. "Does anysing on you vork properly?" Iggy rubbed his forehead with one hand. "Well, I… — James Patterson
It's not in the mainstream media yet, but the biggest jump in skin cancer has occurred since the advent of sunscreens. That kind of thing… — George Carlin
The definition of black irony is Pro-lifers killing Doctors who do abortions — Bill Hicks
Nobody these days holds the written word in such high esteem as police states do. — Italo Calvino
He continues to teach because it provides him with a livelihood; also because it teaches him humility, brings it home to him who he is… — J M Coetzee
The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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