Irony Quotes

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

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.

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

Which is a wonderful irony, I have property there. I go back every chance I get. One of the main reasons I actually wrote the book, agreed to write it having never wanted to do that in my life, very intimidating by the way to write a book.

And the irony is that they wrote better without access to my quotes.

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?

Irony is the hygiene of the mind.

It would no doubt be very sentimental to argue - but I would argue it nevertheless - that the peculiar combination of joy and sadness in bell music - both of clock chimes, and of change-ringing - is very typical of England. It is of a piece with the irony in which English people habitually address one another.

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

I like the irony in my work.

Irony is just honesty with the volume cranked up.

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.

Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge.

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.

This commitment to truth is something one senses more and more Americans yearning for, just as they are becoming more and more sophisticated at knowing when the truth is being obscured - an irony that seems to elude most of today's elected officials.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Yes, of course that's true but you know, the irony of all that is that before the accident, I'd pretty much lost interest in playing drums.

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