Quotes about Irony

Irony is the hygiene of the mind. Votes: 6

Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos. Votes: 6

Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time. Votes: 6

Irony is just honesty with the volume cranked up. Votes: 5

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument. Votes: 4

Irony is one of my favorite aspects of life. Votes: 4

Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom. Votes: 4

Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment. Votes: 4

Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding. Votes: 4

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive. Votes: 4

Humor is everywhere in that there's irony in just about anything a human does. Votes: 4

Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do Votes: 4

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself. Votes: 4

A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away. Votes: 4

Irony differentiates. Cynicism never does. Votes: 3

Irony is the glory of slaves. Votes: 3

Irony is a qualification of subjectivity. Votes: 3

Irony is wasted on the stupid Votes: 3

Irony is Fate's most common figure of speech. Votes: 3

Irony ... may be defined as what people miss. Votes: 3

Irony can elude the genius among us, sometimes. Votes: 3

Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge. Votes: 3

Irony is always the best weapon against fascism. Votes: 3

The Book of History is the Bible of Irony. Votes: 3

Irony deals with opposites; it has nothing to do with coincidence. Votes: 3

Never joke with the press. Irony does not translate into newsprint. Votes: 3

Irony: Don't let yourself be controlled by it, especially during uncreative moments. Votes: 3

Irony gives us, at little expense, the impression that we are experienced psychologists. Votes: 3

Irony is the attendant of hope and the fuel of hope is innocence. Votes: 3

Irony dissolves sentiment, but occasionally a sentiment is strong enough to dissolve irony. Votes: 3

Love, your own witch-daughter, Queen of the Mirror and the Highest Protector of Irony Votes: 3

Irony - The modern mode: either the devil's mark or the snorkel of sanity. Votes: 3

Irony became the head that bit its tail and then there is no way out. Votes: 3

Irony of the world is that it wants to simplify the complexity and complicate the simplicity. Votes: 3

Irony is based on insecurity; people like to not like things because they don't understand them. Votes: 3

Love: the sickest of Irony’s sick jokes. The place where logic and order go to die. Votes: 3

Knee-Jerk Irony: The tendency to make flippant ironic comments as a reflexive matter of course in everyday conversation. Votes: 3

Irony of the day: arthritis medication with a cap that old people can't get off, because of their arthritis. Votes: 3

Irony and pity are two good counselors: one, in smiling, makes life pleasurable; the other, who cries, makes it sacred. Votes: 3

That's the difference between irony and sarcasm. Irony can be spontaneous, while sarcasm requires volition. You have to create sarcasm. Votes: 3

Irony, perfect definition: that for which I want to possess it, I would no longer want once I possessed it. Votes: 3

Irony limits, finitizes, and circumscribes and thereby yields truth, actuality, content; it disciplines and punishes and thereby yields balance and consistency. Votes: 3

Irony is a great tool to deal with things. It's an intellectualization, a way to go above things, which can work. Votes: 3

Irony has only emergency use. Carried over time it is the voice of the trapped who have come to enjoy their cage. Votes: 3

Even if that were true, it wouldn't be irony," Lucas pointed out. "Irony is the contrast between what's said and what happens. Votes: 3

Irony: While we increasingly hold people more responsible if they drink and drive, we hold women less responsible if they drink and have sex. Votes: 3

Irony is the cultivation of the spirit and therefore follows next after immediacy; then comes the ethicist, then the humourist, then the religious person. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. ' Votes: 3

Because of various security lapses, some senators are calling for a probe of the security at the offices of the Department of Homeland Security. The investigation will be conducted by the Department of Irony. Votes: 3

Irony is to the high-bred what billingsgate is to the vulgar; and when one gentleman thinks another gentleman an ass, he does not say it point-blank, he implies it in the politest terms he can invent. Votes: 3

Irony is the hardest addiction of all. Forget heroin. Just try giving up irony, the deep-down need to mean two things at once, to be in two places at once, not to be there for the catastrophe of a fixed meaning. Votes: 3

Irony has seeped into the felt of any fedora hat I have ever owned - not out of any wish of mine, but out of necessity. A fedora hat worn by me without the necessary protective irony would eat through my head and kill me. Votes: 3

Irony is the recourse of the weak-minded wimp, I think. I hate bands that deliver their songs with knowing smiles on their faces, so that if those songs fall flat they can say 'Ah well, we never really meant it anyway.' It's so dishonest. Votes: 3

Irony is the birth-pangs of the objective mind (based upon the misrelationship, discovered by the I , between existence and the idea of existence). Humor is the birth -pangs of the absolute mind (based upon the misrelationship, discovered by the I , between the I and the idea of the I . Votes: 3

Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument. Votes: 2

Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony. Votes: 2

At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed. Votes: 2

It is a fitting irony that under Richard Nixon, "launder" became a dirty word. Votes: 2

We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars. Votes: 2

Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves. Votes: 2

Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it. Votes: 2

My book has a very simple surface, but there are layers of irony and paradox all the way through it. Votes: 2

Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization. Votes: 2

We Americans only voted for George Bush to prove to the British that Americans understand irony. Unfortunately, it kinda backfired. Votes: 2

The grand irony, however, is that Southern segregation was not brought to an end, nor redneck violence dramatically reduced, by violence. Votes: 2

A play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate ignorance-you set free the concealed irony, the deadly joke. Votes: 2

Perhaps the saddest irony of depression is that suicide happens when the patient gets a little better and can again function sufficiently. Votes: 2

The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates. Votes: 2

The irony is, the advertising industry knows everyone hates what they produce. This is why they keep looking for new ways to force people to stay tuned. Votes: 2

Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world takes everything at face value. Votes: 2

Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions. Votes: 2

I always thought the biggest failing of Americans was their lack of irony. They are very serious there! Naturally, there are exceptions... the Jewish, Italian, and Irish humor of the East Coast. Votes: 2

If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too. Votes: 2

The accident was a horrible thing - but that horrible thing made Chris, at the end of his life, Superman. It's a happy irony if there is such a thing. I'm proud to have known him. Votes: 2

In the end, there is no absence of irony: the integrity of what is sacred to Native Americans will be determined by the government that has been responsible for doing everything in its power to destroy Native American cultures. Votes: 2

People in the U.K. share my bemusement with the United States that America doesn't share with itself. They have a sense of irony, which America doesn't have, seeing as it's being run by fundamentalists who take things literally. Votes: 2

I don't mock things, which makes me more vulnerable to mockery myself. If you're cynical, you're protected from mockery. But I have to be nice. I don't think I have irony. A sense of humour, yes, but not irony. Votes: 2

The irony is that the people we tend to vote for actually look down on voters and voting. That's just idiotic, right? That's like a snake eating its own tail! A wolf in a trap gnawing off its own head to escape! Votes: 2

My dad is so unique in what he does. It's not like I'm taking a torch from him and doing his thing. I hope I've carried from him a little bit of a sense of irony, a little bit of a wink. Votes: 2

By an irony of fate, my first employment was as a draughtsman. I hated drawing; it was for me the very worst of annoyances. Fortunately, it was not long before I secured the position I sought, that of chief electrician to the telephone company. Votes: 2

The irony is that the more we fight age, the more it shows. Paint on a 50-year-old face brings to mind a Gilbert and Sullivan comic figure. Smooth the cheeks, and suddenly the ear lobes and hands look out of place. Do we run around in October, painting the gold leaves green? Votes: 2

In a world where irony reigns, where you have to separate, protect and laugh at anything that is honest or has an emotional charge, I bet for catharsis. I like to invest emotionally in things. And catharsis, when it touches the emotional vein, can open the doors of even those who protect themselves. Votes: 2

So, I'm on 'Sesame Street,' walking around with all these monsters, Elmo and his buddies, a whole bunch of chickens, a whole bunch of penguins and a number four dancing about. It was just pure joy, simple, ridiculous fun, stupid joy. There's no irony. 'Sesame Street' is just a crazy great place to be. Votes: 2

We all want to be special, to stand out; there's nothing wrong with this. The irony is that every human being is special to start with, because we're unique to start with. But we then go through some sort of boot camp from the age of zero to about 18 where we learn everything we can about how not to be unique. Votes: 2

I like the irony in my work. Votes: 0

People use irony as a defense mechanism. Votes: 0

Your favorite virtue? An appreciation for irony. Votes: 0

Fundamental belief consoled him for superficial irony. Votes: 0

You should never try irony or self-effacing humour. Votes: 0

I'm not much given to straight, irony-free hero-worship. Votes: 0

And with alphabetical irony Nigeria follows New Zealand Votes: 0

There is no paradox. There is only irony. Votes: 0

I need an irony punctuation mark for the clueless. Votes: 0

Everything becomes symbol and irony when you've been betrayed Votes: 0

...because really, sometimes the irony gods just get drunk. Votes: 0

Adolescence is about digging out the iron inside irony. Votes: 0

The universe tends toward maximum irony. Don't push it. Votes: 0

History, in the end, becomes a form of irony. Votes: 0

Humor, together with irony,forms a safeguard against idolatry. Votes: 0

Don't you find any irony in a vampire sucking up? Votes: 0

Don't underestimate the value of irony"”it is extremely valuable. Votes: 0

Solemnity and a complete absence of irony also mark kitsch. Votes: 0

The irony is, nothing is more frightening than being frightened. Votes: 0

From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent. Votes: 0

Americans are not renowned for having a sense of irony. Votes: 0

Hollywood is a place of great irony at all times. Votes: 0

Royal Young's writing is that rare blend of irony and beauty. Votes: 0

You know, sometimes I swear the whole universe runs on irony. Votes: 0

Art and irony would disintegrate the personality, kitsch makes it whole. Votes: 0

Heaven has fashioned a knife of irony to stab me with. Votes: 0

I don't think irony's meant to synergize with anything as heartfelt assadness." Votes: 0

Experiences that banish irony are much better for living than for writing. Votes: 0

You humans, you know, whoever built you sewed irony into your sinews. Votes: 0

The definition of black irony is Pro-lifers killing Doctors who do abortions Votes: 0

The irony is I stopped going to church a few weeks later. Votes: 0

The irony is that you can't use real rain to make movies. Votes: 0

There is not much irony when people are being happy on screen. Votes: 0

I want to get a tattoo of the word irony, only misspelled. Votes: 0

I want to see Brian Williams with no irony wearing a mustache. Votes: 0

wars are fought so that peace can be achieved talk about irony Votes: 0

There's a certain amount of what I wear that I wear for irony. Votes: 0

I couldn't have done 16 months of deployment without a sense of irony. N Votes: 0

It's an irony of our times that men seeking peace must make war. Votes: 0

It is an oversimplification to say that the opposite of irony is oversimplification. Votes: 0

The irony of loneliness is that everybody shares it from time to time. Votes: 0

Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not. Votes: 0

The world changes, we do not, therein lies the irony that kills us. Votes: 0

irony is a way of having one's cake while appearing to eat it. Votes: 0

I think people under age 55 come to Vegas with a certain sense of irony. Votes: 0

The irony of the information age is that it lends credibility to uninformed opinion. Votes: 0

If the Ego is hateful, Love your neighbor as yourself becomes a cruel irony. Votes: 0

... the irony of life is not that you cannot forget but that you can. Votes: 0

Humanity, perhaps, that quality of benevolence that humans have, without irony, named after themselves. Votes: 0

Cruel irony, the poor man tormented with hunger feeds those who plead his case. Votes: 0

Honesty and unpopular opinions are the toughest sell in a country with an irony-deficiency. Votes: 0

Far more quickly than reason and logic, irony can penetrate rage and puncture self-pity. Votes: 0

I'm most interested in finding the strangeness and irony in reality. That's my forte. Votes: 0

Each day of the Obama presidency seems to bring a new, perversely delicious irony. Votes: 0

my mother never saw the irony of calling me a "son of a bitch Votes: 0

The most dangerous irony is, people are angry with others because of their own incompetence. Votes: 0

The irony is palpable - technical access has never been greater, cultural access never weaker. Votes: 0

The irony of love is that it guarantees some degree of anger, fear and criticism. Votes: 0

Here's the irony of this moment on Smackdown: Jimmy crack corn and I DO care. Votes: 0

The irony is that science has served only to show how small human knowledge is. Votes: 0

The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of probably my best poetry. Votes: 0

We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power. Votes: 0

It's exciting to work with the kids so devoid of irony, so unguarded. And also terrifying Votes: 0

The antidote to hubris, to overweening pride, is irony, that capacity to discover and systematize ideas. Votes: 0

I love the French for their sarcasm, their irony. I love them for their bad moods. Votes: 0

The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony. Votes: 0

irony is an indispensable ingredient of the critical vision; it is the safest antidote to sentimental decay. Votes: 0

The irony is that musical artists have enormous public voices, but behind the scenes we're voiceless, actually. Votes: 0

Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology. Votes: 0

I really think [the Bush Administration]'s foreign policy agenda is to spread irony through the world. Votes: 0

It could draw from a greater reservoir of freedom. The irony could develop an even greater ease. Votes: 0

There is an irony that the most active anti-gay [groups] are Al-Qaeda and the American Right wing. Votes: 0

It would be the irony of fate if my administration had to deal chiefly with foreign affairs. Votes: 0

You can't use irony as a way of disengaging with the difficult or emotional aspects of life. Votes: 0

In a nutshell, I am not unaware of my failings. Neither am I a stranger to irony. Votes: 0

I was not interested in irony; I wanted to emphasize the primacy of the idea in making art Votes: 0

Part of the irony of environmentalism is questing for solutions when you know you're part of the problem. Votes: 0

...his job was the very least important part of his life, never to be mentioned except in irony. Votes: 0

The presence of irony does not necessarily mean that the earnestness is excluded. Only assistant professors assume that. Votes: 0

My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony. Votes: 0

I think of the irony that in our language [Nepali] the word for love can also mean deceit. Votes: 0

Men who retain irony are not to be trusted. They can't always resist an impulse to tickle themselves. Votes: 0

I was not interested in irony; I wanted to emphasize the primacy of the idea in making art. Votes: 0

The South has more of a disproportionate amount of irony on T-shirts than any other region in the country. Votes: 0

The irony of New Testament lordship is that only in slavery to Christ can a man discover authentic freedom. Votes: 0

All the pathos and irony of leaving one's youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel Votes: 0

Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony. Votes: 0

[But] we accept irony through a device called metaphor. And through that we grow and become deeper human beings. Votes: 0

The irony of a director going to film festivals is you never get to see any of the films. Votes: 0

Laughter and irony are at heart reminders that we are not prisoners in this world, but voyagers through it. Votes: 0

I am a connoisseur of fine irony. 'Tis a bit like fine wine, but it has a better bite. Votes: 0

It's kind of a terrible irony, in a way, that the solution to America's problems was World War II. Votes: 0

Americans don't understand irony? I am an intelligent person living in the United States. My entire existence is ironic. Votes: 0

Every man is a prisoner, and the greatest irony of all is to be the prisoner of another man. Votes: 0

I'm really into the irony of writing vaguely radical plays that instantly win huge establishment awards. It's really amusing. Votes: 0

Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony. Votes: 0

Crying wolf may have been the boy's undoing, but the true irony was that the wolves were always lurking nearby. Votes: 0

The newly-minted captain admits the irony between the gold on his shoulders and the lack of gold in his pockets. Votes: 0

guess they forgot to program us with any respect for authority." "well, I have a highly developed sense of irony. Votes: 0

It is a strange irony that the principles of science should seem to deny the necessary conviction of common sense. Votes: 0

I think Douglas [Adams] is writing with an eye to irony for adults at the same time as entertaining children. Votes: 0

While we cried at birth, others were rejoicing and while we smile to death, others were crying...irony of life Votes: 0

Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and a sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery. Votes: 0

one great irony about ignorance it that one may do wrong things greatly and great things wrongly; knowingly or unknowingly Votes: 0

I’ll work my way from irony to sincerity in the sinking city, a would-be Whitman of the vulnerable grid. Votes: 0

Of course the 19th century remained in blissful ignorance of post-modern irony, and the dime novels were made without end. Votes: 0

A careful observation of Nature will disclose pleasantries of superb irony. She has for instance placed toads close to flowers. Votes: 0

Skype is a wonderful thing. The irony is that you never Skype when you're in the same country as someone. Votes: 0

I'm so sick of sarcasm and irony, I could kill! Sincerely, the real root of things is love and sacrifice. Votes: 0

I know the universe has a sense of irony, and sometimes you get reminded just how sadistic that can be. Votes: 0

I regard everything with irony, including the face I see in the mirror when I wake up in the morning. Votes: 0

The irony of life is that those who wear masks often tell us more truths than those with open faces. Votes: 0

Making a film that's supposed to be fun to watch is really hard - that's the weird irony of it. Votes: 0

I have wit in my work and a sense of humor, but I do not use irony in any way Votes: 0

Does anything on you work properly?" Asked ter Borcht. "Well, I do have a highly developed sense of irony." Replied Iggy. Votes: 0

When readers don't like the book, it's usually because they feel that romantic love is pass or somehow needs more irony. Votes: 0

Well, it'd certainly be fascinating if we discovered that gays were better at being married than heterosexuals are. Talk about irony. Votes: 0

Dangerously well’— what an irony is this: it expresses precisely the doubleness, the paradox, of feeling ‘too well Votes: 0

The irony of the matter is that the future generations do not have a vote. In effect, we hold their proxy. Votes: 0

Even the notion that, you know,[Bill] Clinton was the black president strikes me as the greatest irony of all times. Votes: 0

Part of the terrible irony of war is that it enlists the best in human nature for purposes of mutual destruction. Votes: 0

I've learned not to hide behind a veil of irony - to talk about my work in a more honest way. Votes: 0

The irony of sensory deprivation tanks is that in order to think outside the box, you must first go inside one. Votes: 0

I love the irony. I'm perceived as being really young and yet I have the clinical condition of an old man. Votes: 0

A king who is renowned for mercy," said the Arobern, with heavy irony, "must also be renowned in equal measure for injustice. Votes: 0

What a cruel irony of fate, to pair together, like Siamese twins united by the shoulders, scientific adversaries of such contrasting character! Votes: 0

It is an unfortunate irony that music-making intended in part to attract new listeners is usually the least well rehearsed and motivated. Votes: 0

It's no small irony that the government inevitably and invariably ends up promoting precisely that which they would most like to repress. Votes: 0

In hindsight, I must have been looking for a way to write about Jewishness that somehow managed to minimize irony and self-deprecation. Votes: 0

United Nations peacekeepers are going all over the world spreading AIDS even while they're trying to bring peace. What a supreme irony. Votes: 0

Our universities are so determined to impose tolerance that they'll expel you for saying what you think and never notice the irony Votes: 0

You know the great irony is that people think you have to have money to enjoy fine food, which is a shame. Votes: 0

O The irony of man, he thinks he's past generation did not repeat the same way of thinking, either intelligently or foolishly. Votes: 0

Time changes all things and cultivates even in herself an appreciation of irony, and, therefore, why shouldn't I have changed a trifle? Votes: 0

I think the irony ... is that I actually would like to see a relatively light touch when it comes to the government. Votes: 0

That's the irony in the work: the best stories are the worst things that happen. My best times were somebody else's worst. Votes: 0

The irony is that the person not taking risks feels the same amount of fear as the person who regularly takes risks. Votes: 0

There are a million ways to make money in the markets. The irony is that they are all very difficult to find. Votes: 0

I want to own this transition, not to simply swallow the shame of it entire. I will push for every little irony. Votes: 0

The reason ... our pervasive cultural irony is at once so powerful and so unsatisfying is that an ironist is impossible to pin down. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Sadness is the matrix from which wit and irony spring; sadness is uncomfortable and creative, which is why consumer society cannot tolerate it. Votes: 0

Whenever you feel like feeling like a devil's advocate, Bible-thump. That, in a worldly world, is the great irony and satire of evangelism. Votes: 0

The irony is that the more unapologetically sexist men are in movies, the more women tend to be attracted to them in person. Votes: 0

The irony of Christmas is always upon the poor in heart; the mystery of the solstice is always upon the rest of us. Votes: 0

Often we withhold our affections, waiting first for love to be extended to us. The irony is that we are loved for loving. Votes: 0

England and Denmark have a sense of irony and a darker sense of humour that you don't necessarily find in Germany and Sweden. Votes: 0

The irony of rule followers is they often quote a lot of people that do not follow as many rules as they do. Votes: 0

Nobody gets irony anymore, as we are now living in the post-ironic age. Once George Bush gets a library, our irony is dead. Votes: 0

I think I would explode in flames of irony if I were to option an idea that I was satirizing in a novel. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

There's something terribly weird about the standard fantasy setting--not least of which the fact the phrase "standard fantasy setting" can be uttered without irony. Votes: 0

There is too much emphasis on technical perfection nowadays, and not enough on what music is actually about - irony, joy, human suffering, love. Votes: 0

I feel that there's hardly any irony in my work; if there's anything, there'll be sincerity, which people sometimes find hard to deal with. Votes: 0

To have arrived on this earth as a product of a biological accident, only to depart through human arrogance, would be the ultimate irony. Votes: 0

I think my films are very English. That certain emotional distance, interest in the world, interest in irony. These are all deeply English propositions. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The irony of good customer service is that over time it will bring in more new customers than promotions and price slashing ever did! Votes: 0

My friend "M" says the irony of being a zombie is that everything is funny, but you can't smile, because your lips have rotted off. Votes: 0

Ah, woman. She is an enigma. An anomaly of perfection & irony. She can lure angels into her arms & give birth to a nation of ideologies. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I think the French have a romantic cliche that Englishmen have great style, great music, irony and sense of humour. Well, sometimes cliches are true. Votes: 0

The irony of life is we always compare our fantasies with reality, rather than accepting the reality as is and transforming it into a paradise.... Votes: 0

Failure is a trickster with a keen sense of irony and cunning. It takes great delight in tripping one when success is almost within reach. Votes: 0

Everyone is tearing each other apart in the name of their personal god. And the irony is, by definition, they're probably worshiping the same god. Votes: 0

What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

This condition [irony] has nothing to do with writer's block, a psychological syndrome, which is one of the few I have not diagnosed for myself! Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Truth offends everyone outside its definitions. But the irony of truth is that the greater its potential for offense, the greater its potential for giving hope. Votes: 0

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? Votes: 0

King Abdullah has died. A divisive figure in the Middle East. The sad irony is that the USA preached democracy in the face of absolute rule. Votes: 0

The irony here is we're looking for water and we're looking out for water. Without it you die, and with too much of it you die. Votes: 0

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? Votes: 0

The irony is that while God doesn't need us but still wants us, we desperately need God but don't really want Him most of the time. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The irony is that 'looking down on everybody else' is a violation of the law of love, which, according to Jesus, is the absolute essence of righteousness. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away." Votes: 0

You know, there's a certain irony in the fact that our lives and perhaps the lives of everyone on Earth may depend on Captain Patterson's sex appeal. Votes: 0

She looks like a woman who has found it ridiculous to commit herself to a single emotional stance in anything, but must always ride high heavy irony. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Hamlet, Kiekegaard, 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. Votes: 0

I'd love to start some movements. What I'm tired of is irony, and sarcasm, and music/movies/what have you, not having the guts to mean anything. Votes: 0

The irony is that in our decades, the combination of rationalism, asceticism, and individualism (the so-called Protestant Ethic) has produced precisely the system of boondoggling, luxury-consumption, and status. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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? Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The great irony to Dirk [Gently] is that he sees connections in everything, but the one thing he fails and struggles with most is connecting with other people. Votes: 0

I like to have my characters talking in an up-to-date way, and I like their essentially modern self-awareness, which means we can have lots of irony and jokes. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I never used to believe in fate. I used to think you make your own life and then you call it fate. That's why I call it irony. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

But the irony is that because the band isn't the focus any more, it allows me the chance to enjoy being a member of Def Leppard much more. Votes: 0

One of the hardest things I've encountered whilst working on 'Pippin' is the consistent irony, as a reflection from the core material of the show, within my own life. Votes: 0

There's no more delicious irony on the face of the Earth than environmental protesters being led away in plastic handcuffs that have a biodegradability horizon line of, like, 40,000 years. Votes: 0

The surest sign of the estrangement of the opinions of two persons is when they both say something ironical to each other and neither of them feels the irony. Votes: 0

To drag a man in fetters into the grand illuminated temple of liberty, and call upon him to join you in joyous anthems, were inhuman mockery and sacrilegious irony. Votes: 0

Every war is ironic because every war is worse than expected. Every war constitutes an irony of situation because its means are so melodramatically disproportionate to its presumed ends. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

In them was not the savage blankness of the reptile species. Instead there was something far worse - burning, unquenchable rage mixed with the self-mocking irony of great intelligence. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

He took pains to avoid self-depreciation, self-mockery, ambiguity, irony, subtlety, vulnerability, a civilized world-weariness and a tragic sense of history--the very things, he says, that are most natural to him. Votes: 0

Kenney knows two essential truths about melodrama: First that it is most powerful when combined with irony and understatement; and second that it is a salient feature of modern life. Votes: 0

The irony about Charles II is not that he came to the throne because England needed a successor to Charles I, but because England needed a successor to Oliver Cromwell. Votes: 0

I think that you can fall into bad habits with comedy... It's a tightrope to stay true to the character, true to the irony, and allow the irony to happen. Votes: 0

Accept that there are things in this world we can never explain and life will be understandable. That is the irony of life. It is also the beauty of it. Votes: 0

Rich people making their houses bigger in order to make their lives happier wind up hurting their own marriages. There's a deep irony here. Do the couples perceive that irony? Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The irony of acquiring a foreign tongue is that I have amassed just enough cheap, serviceable words to fuel my desires and never, never enough lavish, impudent ones to feed them. Votes: 0

In the works of Duchamp, space begins to walk and take on form; it becomes a machine that spins arguments and philosophizes; it resists movement with delay and delay with irony. Votes: 0

Cervantes is the most important Spanish writer. But he is not the most representative of the Spanish. His irony, his sense of humor - they are too subtle to seem Spanish. Votes: 0

In golf your strengths and weaknesses will always be there. If you could improve your weaknesses, you would improve your game. The irony is that people prefer to practice their strengths. Votes: 0

A vast percentage of the human race is literally not wired neurologically to get irony. Well more than half of humanity takes life at face value, which is to me terrifying. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The trouble with talking about irony is, it's such a slippery thing that the second you start talking about it, you're a better example of it than you are an analyst. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

There's been this strange irony to my whole life. All my original bandmates have died, when I was the most wild and most reckless of us all. But I'm still here. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

(On The International Criminal Court) "For the victors of the Cold War to submit to an unelected, unaccountable, and almost certainly hostile body such as that envisaged would be the ultimate irony." Votes: 0

The beauty and mystery of this world only emerges through affection, attention, interest and compassion . . . open your eyes wide and actually see this world by attending to its colors, details and irony. Votes: 0

Art for Duchamp, all the arts, obey the same law: meta-irony is inherent in their very spirit. It is an irony that destroys its own negation and, hence, returns in the affirmative. Votes: 0

The further humans move from hunters to horticulturists to agriculturists to urbanisation to industrialists, the further the sacred recedes, first to heaven, then condensed to monotheism and finally it dies in irony. Votes: 0

With supreme irony, the war to make the world safe for democracy ended by leaving democracy more unsafe in the world than at any time since the collapse of the revolutions of 1848 Votes: 0

The irony of the process of thought control: the more energy you put into trying to control your ideas and what you think about, the more your ideas end up controlling you. Votes: 0

The New or Future Eve is emptied of all inner life and turned into a shell. The bitter irony in this is that her perfection recalls nothing so much as a corpse. Votes: 0

I still see the world as a place of bitter irony and black humour, failed hopes, dashed plans. I hope to make my work sparer, to outgrow my desire to show off. Votes: 0

The irony is, of course, that many of the values that I was raised with, that I think are very important, that I hold dear, are the result of a religious faith. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

But the irony is they think they're being tough on ISIS and Trump thinks he's being tough on ISIS. Senator Rubio in his interview with you touched on it very, very lightly. Votes: 0

There are ... two kinds of people in this world, those who long to be understood and those who long to be misunderstood. It is the irony of life that neither is gratified. Votes: 0

Talk about impersonating an identity, about locking into a role, about irony; I went to cover the war and the war covered me; an old story, unless of course you've never heard it. Votes: 0

If sub specie aeternitatis there is no reason to believe that anything matters, then that does not matter either, and we can approach our absurd lives with irony instead of heroism or despair. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

One cannot fail to observe a crushing irony: the gospel of relativistic tolerance is perhaps the most “evangelistic” movement in Western culture at the moment, demanding assent and brooking no rivals. Votes: 0

A life that partakes even a little of friendship, love, irony, humor, parenthood, literature, and music, and the chance to take part in battles for the liberation of others cannot be called 'meaningless'... Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Cynicism is overrated, and far too easy. In small doses, cynicism--like irony--provides an essential tempering quality. But to wallow in it, and to dismiss things like hope and faith, is cowardly and unoriginal. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I love meeting people who have absolutely no sense of irony. It's really fascinating to imagine what it would be like to go through life without understanding even the most basic of ironies. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

A mouth of no distinction but well practiced, before I entered my teens, in irony. For what is irony but the repository of hurt? And what is hurt but the repository of hope? Votes: 0

I don't understand this irony - valuable things like cars, gold, diamond are made up of hard materials but most valuable things like money, contracts and books are made up of soft paper. Votes: 0

The irony of our social group is that so often everyone feels this, but there's no company whatsoever in that feeling. Think of Pound's great emphasis, the way out is via the door. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Certainly, it seems true enough that there's a good deal of irony in the world... I mean, if you live in a world full of politicians and advertising, there's obviously a lot of deception. Votes: 0

Faith is a luxury for those who are able to ignore what the rest of us must see every day. Pessimism, distrust, and irony are the holy trinity of my religion, irony in particular. Votes: 0

There has to be irony, both in design and in the objects. I see around me a professional disease of taking everything too seriously. One of my secrets is to joke all the time Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The irony about selling out is that they only call you a sell-out when your stuff finally sells - I've had products bearing my name since I was 14, but nobody was buying them then. Votes: 0

No sense of the irony of human experience, that we are the highest form of life on earth, and yet ineffably sad because we know what no other animal knows, that we must die. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I love Sell Out, I think it's great. I love the jingles. The whole thing as an album is a wonderful piece of work. The cover. Everything about it. It's got humor, great songs, irony. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Melodrama is one of the most stunning art forms. These are stories where the emotions are big, and the situations are big, and the artists believe in the situation dramatically. There's no irony or distance. Votes: 0

Strong people stand up for themselves. Stronger people stand up for others. The irony is that while sleep sometimes brings nightmares, it's the reality of my waking hours that can cause me the greater fear. Votes: 0

I threw my hands on my hips, shocked by the irony. A Mather helping a Greensmith? Hell was freezing over somewhere beneath our feet and every kind of farm animal was sprouting wings to fly. Votes: 0

The best antidote for crime is justice. The irony we often fail to appreciate is that the more justice people enjoy, the fewer crimes they commit. Crime is the natural offspring of an unjust society. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The truth is you really are nothing, but this nothing is full, whole, infinite in everything and everywhere. This nothing is conciousness itself. It is already whole, complete and fulfilled. This is the amazing irony. Votes: 0