Irony Quotes

Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.

Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves.

Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and a sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery.

The presence of irony does not necessarily mean that the earnestness is excluded. Only assistant professors assume that.

The irony here is we're looking for water and we're looking out for water. Without it you die, and with too much of it you die.

Honesty and unpopular opinions are the toughest sell in a country with an irony-deficiency.

I’ll work my way from irony to sincerity in the sinking city, a would-be Whitman of the vulnerable grid.

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

Time changes all things and cultivates even in herself an appreciation of irony, and, therefore, why shouldn't I have changed a trifle?

Irony is Fate's most common figure of speech.

Tremendous beauty and tremendous ugliness puts you on the outside of things.

A mouth of no distinction but well practiced, before I entered my teens, in irony. For what is irony but the repository of hurt? And what is hurt but the repository of hope?

Royal Young's writing is that rare blend of irony and beauty.

The struggle for a free intelligence has always been a struggle between the ironic and the literal mind.

Dangerously well’— what an irony is this: it expresses precisely the doubleness, the paradox, of feeling ‘too well

To drag a man in fetters into the grand illuminated temple of liberty, and call upon him to join you in joyous anthems, were inhuman mockery and sacrilegious irony.

The South has more of a disproportionate amount of irony on T-shirts than any other region in the country.

All the pathos and irony of leaving one’s youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel

Irony is the cultivation of the spirit and therefore follows next after immediacy; then comes the ethicist, then the humourist, then the religious person.

Crying wolf may have been the boy's undoing, but the true irony was that the wolves were always lurking nearby.

The irony about Charles II is not that he came to the throne because England needed a successor to Charles I, but because England needed a successor to Oliver Cromwell.

Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved.

I have wit in my work and a sense of humor, but I do not use irony in any way

Irony is wasted on the stupid

Honestly, I don't understand why people get so worked up about a little murder!

All depression has its roots in self-pity, and all self-pity is rooted in people taking themselves too seriously.

From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent.

Don’t underestimate the value of irony—it is extremely valuable.

But a desperate heart will seduce the mind.

Irony is just honesty with the volume cranked up.

The great irony to Dirk [Gently] is that he sees connections in everything, but the one thing he fails and struggles with most is connecting with other people.

Kenney knows two essential truths about melodrama: First that it is most powerful when combined with irony and understatement; and second that it is a salient feature of modern life.

Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.

My book has a very simple surface, but there are layers of irony and paradox all the way through it.

Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.

The great irony is that women are accused of making romantic comedies, as if it’s a bad thing, but Marc Webb makes a romantic comedy and he gets ‘Spider-Man.’ Are you kidding me? You cannot win.

The irony of Christmas is always upon the poor in heart; the mystery of the solstice is always upon the rest of us.

Certainly, it seems true enough that there's a good deal of irony in the world... I mean, if you live in a world full of politicians and advertising, there's obviously a lot of deception.

Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge.

Irony differentiates. Cynicism never does.

It is an oversimplification to say that the opposite of irony is oversimplification.

The accident was a horrible thing - but that horrible thing made Chris, at the end of his life, Superman. It's a happy irony if there is such a thing. I'm proud to have known him.

I think that you can fall into bad habits with comedy... It's a tightrope to stay true to the character, true to the irony, and allow the irony to happen.

Being lost is worth the being found.

I like the irony in my work.

That will do extremely well, child. You have delighted us long enough. Let the other young ladies have time to exhibit.

But you see, a rich country like America can perhaps afford to be stupid.

People who didn't need people needed people around to know that they were the kind of people who didn't need people.

But that's men all over ... Poor dears, they can't help it. They haven't got logical minds.

That's the difference between irony and sarcasm. Irony can be spontaneous, while sarcasm requires volition. You have to create sarcasm.