Irony Quotes

705 Irony quotes by 566 unique authors

In anthropology, which historically exists to 'give voice' to others, there is no greater taboo than self-revelation. The impetus of our discipline, with its roots… — Ruth Behar
Honesty and unpopular opinions are the toughest sell in a country with an irony-deficiency. — Greg Proops
McDonald's being the official restaurant of the Olympics is like smoking being the official medicine of cancer. — Robert Downey, Jr.
I am someone who takes everything very literally. I simply do not understand irony, a defect I have had ever since I was able to… — Werner Herzog
I never used to believe in fate. I used to think you make your own life and then you call it fate. That's why I… — Gene Wilder
Because of various security lapses, some senators are calling for a probe of the security at the offices of the Department of Homeland Security. The… — Amy Poehler
If I were to write my title like going through the airport and you have to put down what you do? I would literally write… — Kanye West
Irony ruined everything Even the best exploitation movies were never meant to be `so bad they were good`. They were not made for the intelligentsia.… — John Waters
I live a very ordinary life. The rare awards ceremonies I go to are quite fun, because I can enjoy the irony of one minute… — Jonathan Pryce
It is a tragic and agonizing irony that instructions once delivered for the purpose of avoiding needless offense are now invoked in ways that needlessly… — Rachel Held Evans
I went to university for a couple of years and I didn't enjoy university. The studying and the accountancy, economics, I just hated that stuff.… — Gerry Harvey
The grim irony of investing, then, is that we investors as a group not only don't get what we pay for, we get precisely what… — John C. Bogle
You know, sometimes I swear the whole universe runs on irony. — Simon R. Green
Only in america will you see people circling the parking lot looking for a close space at a gym. — Don King
Failure is a trickster with a keen sense of irony and cunning. It takes great delight in tripping one when success is almost within reach. — Napoleon Hill
It is one of history's ironies that Communism, advertised as a classless society, tended to breed a privileged class of feudal proportions. — Henry A. Kissinger
I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
A play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate ignorance-you set free the concealed irony, the deadly joke. — Arthur Miller
I was not interested in irony; I wanted to emphasize the primacy of the idea in making art — Sol LeWitt
The mystery of life--its inexplicability, beauty, cruelty, tenderness, folly . . . has occupied the greater part of my waking thoughts; and in reverence or… — Theodore Dreiser

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