Best 841 quotes in «irony quotes» category

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

I need an irony punctuation mark for the clueless.

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 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.

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.

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

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

Irony is always the best weapon against fascism.

Irony is the hygiene of the mind.

Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge.

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

It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.

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.

I suppose that's one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.

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 oversimplification to say that the opposite of irony is oversimplification.

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

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

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

It's a fitting irony that under Richard Nixon "launder" became a dirty word.

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.

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.

Language and, presumably, literature are more ancient and inevitable, more durable than any form of social organization. The revulsion, irony, or indifference often expressed by literature toward the state is essentially the reaction of the permanent-better yet, the infinite-against the temporary, against the finite.

I wonder if Bettie Page original gay cult had something to do with the ironies inherent in her image, as well as her innate fabulousness as an image.

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

Life is full of ironies and paradoxes.

Mann is widely recognized as a master of irony and ambiguity, yet it's remarkable how quickly people foreclose options he carefully leaves open. Lots of readers - including eminent critics - jump to conclusions: that Nietzsche's Birth of Tragedy is a central background text, that Aschenbach is an inferior writer, that he's never been attracted by pubescent male beauty before, that he dies of cholera.

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