Irony Quotes

Okay, so maybe I'm romantic... but somebody is supposed to be romantic. Some warrior is supposed to go to war against the imperial forces of cynicism and irony. I am a sentimental soldier.

Irony is always the best weapon against fascism.

My direction is very anti-contemplative. If you thought I was for commercial products, you'd think there was no irony. The irony isn't meant to be an ironic comment on our society, exactly.

It's exciting to work with the kids so devoid of irony, so unguarded. And also terrifying

What would we do without irony? Check out your own daily reliance on it, the foul-weather friend who's there for you when nothing else is.

...his job was the very least important part of his life, never to be mentioned except in irony.

Even now, the irony that so non-intellectual a man should choose to engage the Soviet Union on the battlefield of ideas has eluded most commentators and historians.

United Nations peacekeepers are going all over the world spreading AIDS even while they're trying to bring peace. What a supreme irony.

Skype is a wonderful thing. The irony is that you never Skype when you're in the same country as someone.

I think Douglas [Adams] is writing with an eye to irony for adults at the same time as entertaining children.

I'm not much given to straight, irony-free hero-worship.

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.

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

By multiplying ironies, I evade commitments.

I think there is irony in the fact that the computer is both their chief venue of communication and propaganda and also the mother of all their fears.

When it's hardest to pray are usually the times I need to pray the hardest. Not sure if that's irony or common sense.

Hollywood is a place of great irony at all times.

I love the French for their sarcasm, their irony. I love them for their bad moods.

Americans don't understand irony? I am an intelligent person living in the United States. My entire existence is ironic.

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

There's a certain amount of what I wear that I wear for irony.

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

Humanity, perhaps, that quality of benevolence that humans have, without irony, named after themselves.

It's an astonishing skill that people can read, and read well. Very few people can read well. For instance, I have to be very careful with irony, saying something while meaning the exact opposite.

I believe in irony. And if V-Day has taught me anything, it's that if you go out with artistic, outrageous irony and humor, people are drawn to it.

Don't you find any irony in a vampire sucking up?

Hamlet, Kierkegaard, Kafka are ironists in the wake of Jesus. All Western irony is a repetition of Jesus' enigmas/riddles, in amalgam with the ironies of Socrates.

There is grim irony in speaking of the freedom of contract of those who, because of their economic necessities, give their service for less than is needful to keep body and soul together.

The irony is that you can't use real rain to make movies.

The irony of prison is that it takes years and years and years to plan an elaborate escape, but all you have is years and years and years.

Sadness is the matrix from which wit and irony spring; sadness is uncomfortable and creative, which is why consumer society cannot tolerate it.

The Book of History is the Bible of Irony.

A third variety of drama ... begins as tragedy with scraps of fun in it ... and ends in comedy without mirth in it, the place of mirth being taken by a more or less bitter and critical irony.

I need an irony punctuation mark for the clueless.

Irony gives us, at little expense, the impression that we are experienced psychologists.

The reason ... our pervasive cultural irony is at once so powerful and so unsatisfying is that an ironist is impossible to pin down.

The White House has now put together a website for kids. It's a website to teach kids how to manage a budget responsibly. The website is called ' Irony.gov. '

It turns out that President Obama has acid reflux. He had a sore throat, went to the hospital, and they diagnosed it as acid reflux. Talk about irony -- it's not covered by Obamacare.

The condition of the United States in the post-postmodern, or post-post-irony period. It's what the country will become when there is nothing left but mediated images of its substance.

And with alphabetical irony Nigeria follows New Zealand