Irony Quotes

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

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

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.

Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

The Academy Awards ceremony is designed to be without irony, but Chris Rock supplied it anyway with filmed movie-theater interviews with black men and women who had never heard of the movies nominated for Best Picture.

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

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

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

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

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

To me the biggest irony of this lifetime that I'm living is that for someone who thrives in the public eye in the creative ways that I do, I actually don't enjoy being in the public eye.

The irony of the Supreme Court hearing on these cases last week and of the outright hostility that the Court has displayed against religion in recent years is that above the head of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court is a concrete display of the Ten Commandments.

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

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

You know, in my music career there was a moment where the irony was just so heavy. There were people in my audience that were the reason I developed neuroses. These people that tortured my life were using my art, my poetry, as fuel for them, to torture other people.

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.

Irony differentiates. Cynicism never does.

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.

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.

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.