Irony Quotes

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

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

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.

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

Irony differentiates. Cynicism never does.

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.

Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.

Irony, I feel, is a very high form of morality.

The irony of that is, what makes it kind of ironic, is when you do become successful as a professional athlete in particular, a lot of the young children who are emulating these stars do have a different perspective.

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

It is hard to miss the irony in the fact that the very same week that Republicans were publicly heralding Congressman Paul Ryan's plan to inject market forces into the American health care system, they were crafting a budget deal to strip them from the health reform law.

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

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

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.

That is where the irony of the film comes off, in terms of the language it employs - where he tries desperately to be a 'TV Dad,' to give advice and it's so pat it becomes ridiculous.

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

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.

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?

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.

I like the irony in my work.

Irony is just honesty with the volume cranked up.

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.

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.

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.