Irony Quotes

My aunt and overprivileged cousin only recognize two states of being: glitter and grunge. And if you weren’t glitter, well, that only left one other option.

Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.

What an ironic tragedy that an affluent, “Christian” minority in the world continues to hoard its wealth while hundreds of millions of people hover on the edge of starvation!

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

Irony limits, finitizes, and circumscribes and thereby yields truth, actuality, content; it disciplines and punishes and thereby yields balance and consistency.

Irony and pity are two good counselors: one, in smiling, makes life pleasurable; the other, who cries, makes it sacred.

Because he had nothing to hide, he did perhaps appear to have forfeited a little of his strength. But that is the irony of honesty.

It is one of history's greatest ironies that, over the centuries, the pursuit of pleasure has resulted in more pain than enjoyment.

Love, your own witch-daughter, Queen of the Mirror and the Highest Protector of Irony

You yourself are participating in the evil, or you are not alive. Whatever you do is evil for somebody. This is one of the ironies of the whole creation.

[But] we accept irony through a device called metaphor. And through that we grow and become deeper human beings.

It is an irony that the more possessive you are, the more love you demand, the less you receive, while the more freedom you give, the less you demand, the more love you will receive.

It is really not so repulsive to see the poor asking for money as to see the rich asking for more money. And advertisement is the rich asking for more money.

Yup, believe it: I was born on March 28, yet my name is April.

My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony.

You know, you're rather amusingly wrong.

Nobody these days holds the written word in such high esteem as police states do.

Our world will not die as the result of the bomb, as the papers say, it will die of laughter, of banality, or making a joke of everything, and a lousy joke at that.

I love the irony of movies. I really do. For whatever reason, I'm incredibly intrigued by the irony of reality in a motion picture.

The irony of a director going to film festivals is you never get to see any of the films.

Irony is the glory of slaves.

Not every book has to be loaded with symbolism, irony, or musical language, but it seems to me that every book-at least every one worth reading-is about something.

Every man is a prisoner, and the greatest irony of all is to be the prisoner of another man.

We Americans only voted for George Bush to prove to the British that Americans understand irony. Unfortunately, it kinda backfired.

Perhaps the saddest irony of depression is that suicide happens when the patient gets a little better and can again function sufficiently.

Italics provide a wonderful advantage: you see, right away, that the words are in a rush. When something exists at a slant, you can't help but consider irony.

As for George Bush of Kennebunkport, Maine- personally I think he's further evidence that the Great Scriptwriter in the Sky has an overdeveloped sense of irony.

Art and irony would disintegrate the personality, kitsch makes it whole.

In India, whichever language you write in, the possibility of people not understanding irony or not understanding [remains there]. This as a writer is most terrifying!

Irony dissolves sentiment, but occasionally a sentiment is strong enough to dissolve irony.

The ironies in the commonplace are my inspiration and delight.

Nobody gets irony anymore, as we are now living in the post-ironic age. Once George Bush gets a library, our irony is dead.

Never joke with the press. Irony does not translate into newsprint.

When I was young I had no means or time, and now I have the means and time, I have no youth.

You ought to be ironical the minute you get out of bed. You ought to wake up with your mouth full of pity.

In the center lay the exploded carcass of a lonely sperm whale that hadn't lived long enough to be disappointed with its lot.

Who else but me is ever going to read these letters?

And it's really very difficult to kill someone when all your inner instincts would oblige you to take off your hat first!

The fool's crime is the crime that is found out and the wise man's crime is the crime that is not found out.

Irony is the word I forget the meaning of immediately after I look it up, but I kind of feel like I live in a constant state of it.

Corporate irony not only ridicules the thing it is selling but the very act of selling it. In the process it disarms critics by making anyone who goes against the flow of commerce seem clueless.

That was his mother. When she wasn't crying over the breakfast cereal, she was laughing about killing herself.

The thing about changing the world... Once you do it, the world's all different.

War is always an adventure to those who've never seen it.

Luckily, even as a young man not yet become himself, John Bridgens had two things besides indecision that kept him from self-destruction - books and a sense of irony.

You could write a book about things that you can't find on-line.

I think people under age 55 come to Vegas with a certain sense of irony.

He sure put things into words good.

So if there is something on the planet that is worth living for, I'd better not miss it, because once you're dead, it's too late for regrets, and if you die by mistake, that is really, really dumb.

Would you like me to [kill you] now?" asked Snape, his voice heavy with irony. "Or would you like a few moments to compose an epitaph?