Irony Quotes

705 Irony quotes by 566 unique authors

Adolescence is about digging out the iron inside irony. — Andy Hargreaves
In golf your strengths and weaknesses will always be there. If you could improve your weaknesses, you would improve your game. The irony is that… — Harvey Penick
Irony is the hardest addiction of all. Forget heroin. Just try giving up irony, the deep-down need to mean two things at once, to be… — Edward St Aubyn
Speakers find joy in public speaking when they realize that a speech is all about the audience, not the speaker. Most speakers are so caught… — Nick Morgan
I do not think it is logical to try and outsmart the smartest people. Instead, my weapons are irony and paradox. The joy of life… — Hugh Jackman
Phones with numerical keypads worked best for dialing phone calls. Incidentally, phone calls tend to be the primary function of a phone. 'Smartphones' completely ignore… — Ashly Lorenzana
We say we love flowers, yet we pluck them. We say we love trees, yet we cut them down. And people still wonder why some… — Unknown Author
You can't top that remark for hypocrisy or the setting for irony. It isn't the middle class who write $32,500 checks. Those who do expect… — Jack Kelly
The more repression there is, the more need there is for irreverence toward those who are responsible for that repression. But too often sarcasm passes… — Paul Krassner
When you know that everything happens for the best, then everything that happens is okay with you. The irony of this is that when everything… — Neale Donald Walsch
There are ... two kinds of people in this world, those who long to be understood and those who long to be misunderstood. It is… — Carl Van Vechten
All the pathos and irony of leaving oneâ€™s youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel — Paul Fussell
The principle tragedy of my life is, like all tragedies, an irony of Destiny. I reject real life as if it were a condemnation; I… — Fernando Pessoa
Avatar is the most high tech film in terms of its execution, dealing with essentially a very low tech subject; which is our relationship with… — James Cameron
It is the cruelest of all ironies that moderns imagine themselves to be (abstractly understood) "individuals," because in actuality moderns are "types," abstracted and self-abstractive… — Kenny Smith
King Abdullah has died. A divisive figure in the Middle East. The sad irony is that the USA preached democracy in the face of absolute… — Immortal Technique
The irony is that the person not taking risks feels the same amount of fear as the person who regularly takes risks. — Peter McWilliams
Sexcastle is a perfect mix of homage and comedy, action and irony, loving tribute and hilarious send-up of the great, good, and ungodly-bad action movies… — Matt Fraction
The irony of New Testament lordship is that only in slavery to Christ can a man discover authentic freedom. — R C Sproul
The modern way with God is to set him at a distance, if not to deny him altogether; and the irony is that modern Christians,… — J I Packer

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