Irony Quotes

705 Irony quotes by 566 unique authors

Our most significant opportunities will be found in times of greatest difficulty. — Thomas S. Monson
That's the difference between irony and sarcasm. Irony can be spontaneous, while sarcasm requires volition. You have to create sarcasm. — Christopher Moore
Experiences that banish irony are much better for living than for writing. — Michael Pollan
The irony of man's condition is that the deepest need is to be free of the anxiety of death and annihilation; but it is life… — Ernest Becker
I'd rather be partly great than entirely useless. — Neal Shusterman
For a wonderful physical tie binds the parents to the children; and - by some sad, strange irony - it does not bind us children… — E. M. Forster
Even things that are true can be proved. — Oscar Wilde
Caring doesn't sometimes lead to misery. It always does. — John Green
It's funny, isn't it? When you are young you just want to be old, and then later you wish you could go back to being… — Lauren Oliver
Sure, nothing succeeds like success. Fact is, dearest, we are fools. We cling to an ideal no one wants or cares about. I am the… — Emma Goldman
...because really, sometimes the irony gods just get drunk. — Libba Bray
There's a grosser irony about Politically Correct English. This is that PCE purports to be the dialect of progressive reform but is in fact -… — David Foster Wallace
There's a large strain of irony in our human affairs... Interwoven with our affairs is this wonderful spirit of irony which prevents us from ever… — Malcolm Muggeridge
Goose neck is a delicacy. You have to at least try it. In fancy restaurants people pay up to fifty dollars a plate for this… — Janette Rallison
Irony is wasted on the stupid — Oscar Wilde
Don't you find any irony in a vampire sucking up? — Heather Brewer
I was afraid. Of getting hurt in other ways. To be truthful, I still am." His thumb stroked her cheek. "I would never hurt you."… — Tessa Dare
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
He looks at you like you're someone he's never met before, much less someone he once loved with high passion. The irony is, you can… — Elizabeth Gilbert
Mirabelle replaces the absent friends with books and television mysteries of the PBS kind. The books are mostly nineteenth-century novels in which women are poisoned… — Steve Martin
It's one of the ironies of mountaineering,' said Young, 'that grown men are happy to spend months preparing for a climb, weeks rehearsing and honing… — Jeffrey Archer
Our contradictions. We are in such a hurry to grow up, and then we long for our lost childhood. We make ourselves ill earning money,… — Paulo Coelho
Luckily, even as a young man not yet become himself, John Bridgens had two things besides indecision that kept him from self-destruction - books and… — Dan Simmons
When was the last time you used the words 'teach me'? Maybe not since you started first grade? Here's an irony about school: The daily… — Jerry Spinelli
guess they forgot to program us with any respect for authority." "well, I have a highly developed sense of irony. — James Patterson

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