Irony Quotes

705 Irony quotes by 566 unique authors

Italics provide a wonderful advantage: you see, right away, that the words are in a rush. When something exists at a slant, you can't help… — Ann Beattie
Time changes all things and cultivates even in herself an appreciation of irony, and, therefore, why shouldn't I have changed a trifle? — James Branch Cabell
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. — Hector Berlioz
To have arrived on this earth as a product of a biological accident, only to depart through human arrogance, would be the ultimate irony. — Richard Leakey
Don't be too much concerned about money, because that is the greatest distraction against happiness. And the irony of ironies is that people think they… — Rajneesh
Because we can engineer genetics, because we can telecast real lives-of course we must, right? But are these good things to do? The irony is,… — Roger Ebert
All the pathos and irony of leaving one's youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel: one knows that the first joy… — Paul Fussell
It is sometimes easier to be happy if you don't know everything. — Alexander McCall Smith
There is not much irony when people are being happy on screen. — Carter Burwell
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. — William Mather Lewis
The biggest seller is cookbooks and the second is diet books - how not to eat what you've just learned how to cook. — Andy Rooney
I think the French have a romantic cliche that Englishmen have great style, great music, irony and sense of humour. Well, sometimes cliches are true. — Josephine de La Baume
Americans are not renowned for having a sense of irony. — Andrew Dominik
Irony is one of my favorite aspects of life. — Unknown Author
I think that televisions are unnecessarily complex. The irony is that as the pictures get better and the choice of content gets broader, that the… — John Sculley
A vast percentage of the human race is literally not wired neurologically to get irony. Well more than half of humanity takes life at face… — Douglas Coupland
The Internet has destroyed irony in the world, or at least wounded it considerably. What are we to do about an invention whose end result… — Douglas Coupland
Nobody gets irony anymore, as we are now living in the post-ironic age. Once George Bush gets a library, our irony is dead. — Eric Idle
By an irony of fate, my first employment was as a draughtsman. I hated drawing; it was for me the very worst of annoyances. Fortunately,… — Nikola Tesla
There are elements of irony in my work, of course. — Martin Parr
Each day of the Obama presidency seems to bring a new, perversely delicious irony. — Monica Crowley
I want to see Brian Williams with no irony wearing a mustache. — Adam McKay
Death metal uses a lot of white face paint and black hair dye to make its point. I quite enjoy this genre for its intensity,… — Henry Rollins
Irony has seeped into the felt of any fedora hat I have ever owned - not out of any wish of mine, but out of… — George W. S. Trow
Most of all, I am struck by an irony central to the lot of a purebred dog: As it attains the hallmarks of its breed,… — Jean Hanff Korelitz

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