Irony Quotes

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

Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.

He was one of the most supremely stupid men I have ever met. He taught me a great deal.

Irony - The modern mode: either the devil’s mark or the snorkel of sanity.

A modern philosopher who has never once suspected himself of being a charlatan must be such a shallow mind that his work is probably not worth reading.

So such is life that it writes itself, trying to right itself, but there's nothing wrong with it.

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

When one has no character, one HAS to apply a method. Here it did wonders incontrovertibly, and I am living on the site of one of the greatest crimes in human history.

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

... the irony of life is not that you cannot forget but that you can.

The irony of the matter is that the future generations do not have a vote. In effect, we hold their proxy.

The irony of love is that it guarantees some degree of anger, fear and criticism.

It may well be that we shall by a process of sublime irony have reached a state in this story where safety will be the sturdy child of terror, and survival the twin brother of annihilation.

It's a fitting irony that under Richard Nixon "launder" became a dirty word.

A careful observation of Nature will disclose pleasantries of superb irony. She has for instance placed toads close to flowers.

A $20 haircut hardly ever lasts longer than a $5 haircut.

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 think independently.

Irony deals with opposites; it has nothing to do with coincidence.

Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it.

There is not much irony when people are being happy on screen.

It's no small irony that the government inevitably and invariably ends up promoting precisely that which they would most like to repress.

"And we'll call you... hmmm. Pudge." "Huh?" "Pudge," the Colonel said. "Because you're skinny. It's called irony, Pudge. Heard of it? Now, let's go get some cigarettes and start this year off right."

The problem is that once the rules of art are debunked, and once the unpleasant realities the irony diagnoses are revealed and diagnosed, 'then' what do we do?

The surest sign that two people no longer speak the same language is that both say ironic things to one another but that neither senses the irony.

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 industrialized world combined.

Cruel irony, the poor man tormented with hunger feeds those who plead his case.

I love the irony. I'm perceived as being really young and yet I have the clinical condition of an old man.

There's a lot of situations where I feel irony involved when R&B and hip-hop is expressed in the indie worlds. There's a lot of times when I feel like the juxtaposition becomes a thing.

The show is not a history lesson or intellectual exploration. It is entertainment based on tension, irony and storytelling that is closely related to today’s life.

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, and gadamn I feel like trying right now.

A sharp sense of the ironic can be the equivalent of the faith that moves mountains. Far more quicky than reason or logic, irony can penetrate rage and puncture self-pity.

At the best, sarcasms, bitter irony, scathing wit, are a sort of swordplay of the mind. You pink your adversary, and he is forthwith dead; and then you deserve to be hung for it.

Irony: Don't let yourself be controlled by it, especially during uncreative moments.

The irony is I stopped going to church a few weeks later.

I was not interested in irony; I wanted to emphasize the primacy of the idea in making art

The grand irony, however, is that Southern segregation was not brought to an end, nor redneck violence dramatically reduced, by violence.

History, in the end, becomes a form of irony.

You know, sometimes I swear the whole universe runs on irony.

One of the persistent ironies of reform is the impossibility of predicting the full consequences of change.

This human nature is shabby stuff, as you may know from introspection.

Irony is the bringing together of two contradictory truths and to make out of the contradiction a new truth, with a laugh or a smile.

Making a film that's supposed to be fun to watch is really hard - that's the weird irony of it.

We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power.

I've learned not to hide behind a veil of irony - to talk about my work in a more honest way.

I know the universe has a sense of irony, and sometimes you get reminded just how sadistic that can be.

Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology.

The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony.

It is a strange irony that the principles of science should seem to deny the necessary conviction of common sense.

I'm being ironic. Don't interrupt a man in the midst of being ironic, it's not polite. There!

Nobody steals books but your friends.