Irony Quotes

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Some people tell me that they like what I do, which is great, of course. The perfect irony and truth is that I need them much more than they need me.

Irony ... may be defined as what people miss.

Even the notion that, you know,[Bill] Clinton was the black president strikes me as the greatest irony of all times.

It makes me sad, the way human beings talk smack. It's why I don't like irony. People are too gleeful to put some teeth into something.

Let neither tear nor reproach besmirch this declaration of the mastery of God who, with magnificent irony, granted me both the gift of books and the night.

You can't top that remark for hypocrisy or the setting for irony. It isn't the middle class who write $32,500 checks. Those who do expect something in return. They've been getting it.

Walking over to Iggy, he poked him with his shoe. "Does anysing on you vork properly?" Iggy rubbed his forehead with one hand. "Well, I have a highly developed sense of irony.

I'm the type of spiritual person that doesn't speak openly about their spirituality. Irony is probably my religion.

Does anything on you work properly?" Asked ter Borcht. "Well, I do have a highly developed sense of irony." Replied Iggy.

guess they forgot to program us with any respect for authority." "well, I have a highly developed sense of irony.

The unhappy irony is that, while 'Glee' is hitting the heights, school arts funding is being slashed across the country due to the steep recession and declining tax revenues.

The universe tends toward maximum irony. Don't push it.

I think of the irony that in our language [Nepali] the word for love can also mean deceit.

Everything becomes symbol and irony when you've been betrayed

I really think [the Bush Administration]'s foreign policy agenda is to spread irony through the world.

People have different ideas, emotional ideas, of what certain words mean, and they think of irony as something that's more associated with being cynical-it's kind of a put-down.

Irony, perfect definition: that for which I want to possess it, I would no longer want once I possessed it.

When I started making movies about weird people, I knew they were weird, I was infected with irony, and I wanted New York to notice.

It is one of the ironies of history that reformers so often misjudge the consequences of their reforms.

irony is a way of having one's cake while appearing to eat it.

O masses, o masses! When will you assume the image and likeness of your avant-garde?

How unfortunate, considering I have decided to loathe him for eternity

Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn’t really hurt.

I hardly think that any Socialist, nowadays, would seriously propose that an inspector should call every morning at each house to see that each citizen rose up and did manual labour for eight hours.

You cut life to pieces with your epigrams.

O, wonder!How many goodly creatures are there here!How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, That has such people in't!

Sometimes, the embers are better then the campfire. It's strange, but it's true.

You would compliment a coxcomb doing a good act, but you would not praise an angel.

How strange it was to think that he, who such a short time ago dared not believe in the happiness of her loving him, now felt unhappy because she loved him too much!

I hope I know my own unworthiness, and that I hate and despise myself and all my fellow-creatures as every practicable Christian should.

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I paid, got up, walkedto the door, openedit.I heard the mansay, "that guy'snuts."out on the street Iwalked northfeelingcuriouslyhonored.

Maugham then offers the greatest advice anyone could give to a young author: "At the end of an interrogation sentence, place a question mark. You'd be surprised how effective it can be.

He had had much experience of physicians, and said 'the only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd druther not'.

Hard times' is a phrase the English love to use, when speaking of Africa. And it is easy to forget that Africa's 'hard times' were made harder by them.

God’s in His heaven—All’s right with the world!

I didn't know who tobelievebutone thing I doknow: when a man islivingmany claim relationshipsthat are hardlysoand after he dies, well, then it's everybody'sparty.

It is bound to be a failure, every book is a failure, but I do know with some clarity what kind of book I want to write.

Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

...You know, one good apple can spoil the rest, ” Colonel Korn concluded with conscious irony.

General Peckem even recommends that we send our men into combat in full-dress uniform so they'll make a good impression on the enemy when they're shot down".

I'd know if I wasn't fully human, wouldn't I? Wouldn't there be some sort of sign, pointed ears or wings or something like that?--Meghan Chase

Haw! Haw! Inconceivable stupidity is just what you're going to get! (Brigadier-General Henry Wilson, on being challenged in 1910 about the likelihood of a European war)

Put something new on the table and everyone wants a piece of it.