Irony Quotes

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.

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.

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.

Sometimes to be a good parent... You have to laugh when you want to be angry. You have to be angry when you want to laugh. And that is why good parenting is tough.

I will never lie again.

I had never seen a real live dead person.

I would rather be an artist than a leader. Ironically, a leader has to follow the rules.

Has all the trappings of a mystery novel, doesn't it?

Now that’s true poetic irony. I rush into battle to defend the fair name of Rose Larkin, and what does she do but fetch Robert to stop me.

I took my .38 out and looked to see that there were bullets in all the proper places. I knew there would be, but it did no harm to be careful. And I'd seen Clint Eastwood do it once in the movies.

How ya doin'?' I always think, What kind of a question is that?, and I always reply, 'A bit early to tell.

to travel faster than a speeding bullet is not much help if you and it are heading straight towards each other

Even You-Know-Who can't split himself into seven.

What a refreshing mind you have, young man. There really is nothing quite like total ignorance, is there?

I pound on the glass, screaming my head off. Everyone ignores me except for some Capitol attendant who appears behind me and offers me a beverage.

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

The things I do for love.

The thing that I come across is that people think that I might actually be super aggressive, want-to-fight type in real life. The irony is that that's just not true, at all.

The irony is of course that my career has lasted a whole lot longer than some of the people I've parodied over the years.

To me the biggest irony of this lifetime that I'm living is that for someone who thrives in the public eye in the creative ways that I do, I actually don't enjoy being in the public eye.

Americans are not renowned for having a sense of irony.

Adolescence is about digging out the iron inside irony.

Melissa Pritchard's prose, that darkly lyrical firmament, is brightened by the dizzy luminous arrangement of her stars and satellites, her great gifts to us: humor, irony, kindness, brilliance.

The great irony is that people who live in remote areas, who are illiterate and don't own TVs, are in some ways more free because they are beyond the reach of indoctrination by the modern mass media.

I think the irony ... is that I actually would like to see a relatively light touch when it comes to the government.

The irony is palpable - technical access has never been greater, cultural access never weaker.

Most of us start from that position of irony now and what I wanted to do - really felt like I had to do if I was going to write another novel - was move towards something like sincerity.

Irony can elude the genius among us, sometimes.

It is an unfortunate irony that music-making intended in part to attract new listeners is usually the least well rehearsed and motivated.

You were so near death that ghosts crowded around you, weeping silver tears, waiting for you with such smiles. You humans, you know, whoever built you sewed irony into your sinews.

You humans, you know, whoever built you sewed irony into your sinews.

When readers don't like the book, it's usually because they feel that romantic love is pass or somehow needs more irony.

We didn't understand irony yet in the '80s; we just kind of existed at face value, so there was no nerd cool yet because the digital revolution was still in its infancy.

Even if that were true, it wouldn't be irony," Lucas pointed out. "Irony is the contrast between what's said and what happens.

It's true that what is morbid is highly valued today, and so you may think that I am only joking or that I've devised just one more means of praising Art with the help of irony.

You can't use irony as a way of disengaging with the difficult or emotional aspects of life.

That's the irony in the work: the best stories are the worst things that happen. My best times were somebody else's worst.

Heaven has fashioned a knife of irony to stab me with.

Was Mann himself fully aware of all the facets of his irony? Probably not - any more than Shakespeare was fully aware of all the riches subsequent critics have found in his plays.

I don't think readers of Mann have overlooked the fact that he was a great ironist, but they have tended to see the irony in particular parts of the novella, and to miss it in others.

There is no paradox. There is only irony.

I think my films are very English. That certain emotional distance, interest in the world, interest in irony. These are all deeply English propositions.

It is one of the ironies of biographical art that some details are more relevant than others, and many details have no relevance at all.

Within that moment was trust, compassion, and our mutual sense of irony. He was carrying death within him and I was carrying life. We were both aware of that, I know.

Life's irony is that as soon as worldly goods and worldly success are of no concern to you, the way is open for them to flow to you.

The irony is that [Barack] Obama was a law professor at the University of Chicago. He would, most of all, know that what he is doing weakens the Constitution.

That's the trouble with honorable mentions: they let everyone know you applied and didn't win.

Experiences that banish irony are much better for living than for writing.

...because really, sometimes the irony gods just get drunk.

I am a connoisseur of fine irony. 'Tis a bit like fine wine, but it has a better bite.