Irony Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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 just honesty with the volume cranked up.

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.

Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge.

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.

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.