Irony Quotes

705 Irony quotes by 566 unique authors

If the Ego is hateful, Love your neighbor as yourself becomes a cruel irony. — Paul Valery
Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves. — Thomas Jefferson
When a library expels a book of mine and leaves an unexpurgated Bible lying around where unprotected youth and age can get hold of it,… — Mark Twain
Haven't you picked up on the irony of life by now? Things only just happen when you're not ready. When you're ready, you start trying,… — Elizabeth Reyes
The irony of love is that it guarantees some degree of anger, fear and criticism. — Harold H. Bloomfield
There was a sort of irony in the fact that these [superhero] characters - many of whom in that period, the Golden Age, had been… — Michael Chabon
The irony here is this administration is spending more money on climate change research and development than any administration in all the rest of the… — Christine Todd Whitman
The irony of the Supreme Court hearing on these cases last week and of the outright hostility that the Court has displayed against religion in… — Cliff Stearns
The real irony is that the view of infinity as some forbidden zone or road to insanity - which view was very old and powerful… — David Foster Wallace
You work and live to meet your daily needs rather than to maximize your potential. You simply exist from day to day, without much passion… — Simon T. Bailey
In the end, the Labour party could cease to represent labour. Stranger historic ironies have happened than that. — Enoch Powell
We think craft is important, and the irony has always been that horror may be disregarded by critics, but often they are the best-made movies… — James Wan
We had no irony when it came to girls, though. There was just no time to develop it. One moment they weren't there, not in… — Nick Hornby
There are a million ways to make money in the markets. The irony is that they are all very difficult to find. — Jack D. Schwager
The irony is that science has served only to show how small human knowledge is. — Masanobu Fukuoka
Joyfully celebrating the killing of a killer who joyfully celebrated killing carries an irony that I hope will not be lost on us. Are we… — Brian D. McLaren
When you have a good heart: You help too much. You trust too much. You give too much. You love too much. And it always… — Nishan
Even now, the irony that so non-intellectual a man should choose to engage the Soviet Union on the battlefield of ideas has eluded most commentators… — Richard Perle
That books, a commodity little changed since Caxton's day, should have turned out to be the trailblazers of retailing on the internet is one of… — Bryan Appleyard
All in all, I think that out of all musical genres, the world of metal is the most escapist one. Metal is also music for… — Tuomas Holopainen

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