Irony Quotes
What is a saint supposed to do, if not convert wolves?
It's ironic how those with the most loving arms are the ones who get the most hate.
The irony of the human heart is that it’s tormented both by the presence and absence of it’s own soul’s counterpart.
In a nutshell, I am not unaware of my failings. Neither am I a stranger to irony.
One of life’s ironies is that the more honest and vulnerable you are, the more others try to discredit you as a fraud and a fake. Shut them up by not caring.
Irony is easier than hopeless silence but braver than flight.
The Bible appears to be the most revered book never read.
About two-thirds of Americans believe that the Bible "answers all or most of the basic questions of life"—and 28 percent of them admit that they rarely or never read it!
Voltaire expected that within fifty years of his lifetime there would not be one Bible in the world. His house is now a distribution centre for Bibles in many languages.
I'm starting to feel like a character from one of these books
It is a truth widely recognized that tyranny stems from the consent of the governed as much as democracy does.
You know something is wrong when the government declares opening someone else’s mail is a felony but your internet activity is fair game for data collecting.
Don't worry, my little lump of rock. Everybody gets a chance to choose. Or else where would irony come from?
They only asked for punishments that fitted their crimes. Not ones that came like cupboards with built-in bedrooms. Not ones you spent your whole life in, wandering through its maze of shelves.
Sometimes you need to do something bad to do something good.I guess that's the irony of life.
I'm a kindhearted but highly competitive pragmatist. When I seek to win something, I always make certain it's never at the expense of anything more serious than the inadequate efforts of others.
To say "He was a young fool, and now he's an old fool" is to make a distinction without a difference.
Events fall into a pattern that we can only discern retrospectively. We credit ourselves with far more agency than we actually possess. Things happen because they happen.
I suppose longevity requires giving up life's pleasures, one by one, until there's nothing left.
Il me semble que je serais toujours bien la ou je ne suis pas.It seems to me that I will always be happy in the place where I am not.
...one of the roles of man is to shut his eyes and keep them shut to see if he can continue into the night of his old age the dream curtailed in the night of his youth.
For with dandies, a joke is the only way of making yourself respected.
We give up our power to the very people who took it away from us in the first place.
Your weaknesses may not seem overwhelming, but they will create the biggest problems you face.
Comparisons are like rigid fingers—eager to point at a subject but unwilling to grasp it.
... And I wondered if we had disappointed God so much, that he wrote us off as pets, just alive to entertain.
Only in America can you be pro-death penalty, pro-war, pro-unmanned drone bombs, pro-nuclear weapons, pro-guns, pro-torture, pro-land mines, and still call yourself 'pro-life.
You can't deal with being odd?...Become like them...Become drug delear...Live their lifes... have fun...and be honest...
His face had been twisted into an expression of every agony he had imagined for his friend.
Dream Song of Thunders:Sometimes I go about pitying Myself, While I am carried by the wind Across the sky.
There are those who are legitimately corrupt, who cannot admit that legitimacy allows them to corrupt legitimacy, and to legitimately corrupt others.
and their days make no story for they were good and joyful and without event
The irony of rule followers is they often quote a lot of people that do not follow as many rules as they do.
What do you think the Order is going to do?" he asks. "Help us open a door to Hell, if we're lucky, " I reply. Lucky. Ha ha. The irony.
As usual I was working the graveyard shift—an irony I reveled in—at an emergency call center. What other shift would a vampire feel comfortable working?
Facebook is that successful guy you’re supposed to want to date, but you can’t keep your mind off the beautiful freak in the corner. Twitter is my freak.