Best 841 quotes in «irony quotes» category

Between "just desserts" and "tragic irony" we are given quite a lot of scope for our particular talent. Generally speaking, things have gone about as far as they can possibly go when things have got about as bad as they reasonably get.

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.

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

By multiplying ironies, I evade commitments.

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

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

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

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

Everyone is always going through tough things, the irony in it is that everyone thinks what they're going through is just as hard as what you are. Life isn't about surviving this, it's about understanding this.

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

Everything becomes symbol and irony when you've been betrayed

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

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.

Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.

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

Here we have the great irony of modern nutrition: at a time when hundreds of millions of people do not have enough to eat, hundreds of millions more are eating too much and are overweight or obese.

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

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.

Everything we say about other people is really about ourselves.

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.

Humor does not include sarcasm, invalid irony, sardonicism, innuendo, or any other form of cruelty. When these things are raised to a high point they can become wit, but unlike the French and the English, we have not been much good at wit since the days of Benjamin Franklin.

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

Humor brings insight and tolerance.

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.

I don't think it's aiming at gags, I think the humour is woven into it. It's part of how the characters operate and how they deal with disaster because they're worldly enough to have a bit of irony and wryness about their own circumstances. So, I think the humour comes out of that.

I have survivor skills. Some of that is superficial - what I present to people outwardly - but what makes people resilient is the ability to find humour and irony in situations that would otherwise overpower you.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

In my own work, humor is necessary, for the reasons stated above, but also because forbidding your characters silliness, absurdity, irony, and vulgarity forbids them aspects of the human experience every bit as universal as sorrow.

In the end, the Labour party could cease to represent labour. Stranger historic ironies have happened than that.

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

In the history of photography, one process has always replaced another. The tumultuous realignment that's going on in the photography now is really just a natural evolution. The irony is that none of the processes that have been replaced have disappeared. More people than ever are practicing every approach to shooting and printing.

I need an irony punctuation mark for the clueless.

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

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

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

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.

Irony is always the best weapon against fascism.

Irony is the hygiene of the mind.

Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge.

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.

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

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

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

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