Irony Quotes

These were always the weirdest trips for me, when it was midnight or even later, and we pulled up to...

A united front announcing a split.

The irony of informing nearly naked people in a wilderness setting about the story of naked Adam and...

I always think it's funny when Indians celebrate Thanksgiving. I mean, sure, the Indians and Pilgrim...

[Or perhaps my friends should have realized that they shouldn't have left behind the FRICKING REASON...

What one should add here is that self-consciousness is itself unconscious: we are not aware of the p...

He saw that it was an ironical thing for him to be running thus toward that which he had been at suc...

His face had been twisted into an expression of every agony he had imagined for his friend.

Sometimes, the embers are better then the campfire. It's strange, but it's true.

The speed felt tremendous. And the bottom of the ravine was treacherous. She ought to control her mo...

«Such is the irony of life,» Kruppe proclaimed, raising one pastry-filled hand over his head, «that ...

I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize.

To condemn slavery was one thing—that I could do in my own individual heart—but female ministers!

Funny, though, I don't feel too bad.

I pound on the glass, screaming my head off. Everyone ignores me except for some Capitol attendant w...

As the ironist does not have the new within his power, it might be asked how he destroys the old, an...

He led them around the base of a great fallen tree whose exposed roots resembled more than anything ...

and their days make no story for they were good and joyful and without event

Christ has no body now on earth but yours, no hands but yours, no feet but yours,Yours are the eyes ...

You're not going to tell me they built fifty-foot-high killer golems, are you?""Only a man would thi...

Just to keep the bad dreams at bay, she took a swig out of a bottle that smelled of apples and happy...

You know, you're rather amusingly wrong.

People who didn't need people needed people around to know that they were the kind of people who did...

(About sweeping)....What he was in FACT doing was moving the dirt around with a broom, to give it a ...

We think, therefore we should make everyone think what we think.

... nature did not make us to feel too good for too long (which would be no good for the survival of...

She resembled the swallow in the fable who once every thousand years transferred a grain of wheat, i...

For the whole earth is the tomb of famous men; not only are they commemorated by columns and inscrip...

All depression has its roots in self-pity, and all self-pity is rooted in people taking themselves t...

But what use is the unicorn to you if your intellect doesn't believe in it?

Colorless green ideas sleep furiouslythree old owls on a chest of drawerswere screwingthe daughter o...

What is a saint supposed to do, if not convert wolves?

The list could surely go on, and there is nothing more wonderful than a list, instrument of wondrous...

He had been trying to measure the distance between the earth and God.

She came from the most worthless of classes - the rich, with a smattering of culture.

All of which does not alter the fact that Pnin was on the wrong train.

The Lethean Library, for all its incalculable volumes, is, I know, sadly incomplete without Mr. Good...

It is extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as [inherently] exceptional, whateve...

Irony is a gift of the gods, the most subtle of all the modes of speech. It is an armour and a weapo...

It might seem to you that living in the woods on a riverbank would remove you from the modern world....

The fool's crime is the crime that is found out and the wise man's crime is the crime that is not fo...

I will never lie again.

To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It has happened to all of us; we are its victims, are we hav...

I got this to say. You're acting like a crowd of kids.

It would be the irony of fate if my administration had to deal chiefly with foreign affairs.

Maugham then offers the greatest advice anyone could give to a young author: "At the end of an inter...

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

I was tired of this silly joking about my 'speaking countenance'. I could keep a secret as well as a...

It's extraordinary, the amount of misunderstandings there are even between two people who discuss a ...

During the first day, curious at having outsiders among them, a long stream of inmates came over and...

Now, as I understand it, the bards were feared. They were respected, but more than that they were fe...

It is the oldest ironies that are still the most satisfying: man, when preparing for bloody war, wil...

When one has no character, one HAS to apply a method. Here it did wonders incontrovertibly, and I am...

O young girl, throw yourself again into the water so that I might have a second time the chance to s...

Imagine a factory staffed by Alphas—that is to say by separate and unrelated individuals of good her...

He himself, Anthony went on to think, he himself had chosen to regard the whole process as either po...

It is sometimes easier to be happy if you don't know everything.

Inscriptions here of various Names I view'd,The greater part by hostile time subdu'd;Yet wide was sp...

Hard times' is a phrase the English love to use, when speaking of Africa. And it is easy to forget t...

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

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

It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel. -Anatole France, novelist, ess...

We are dancing on our irony as upon the top of glowing sparks.

Dear friend…'The Witcher swore quietly, looking at the sharp, angular, even runes drawn with energet...

For I must tell you, gentle reader, that Geralt the Witcher was always a modest, prudent and compose...

And, conversely, she went on to herself, sneering at the Grand Duke's palace, poverty is wasted on t...

LIII.What is the holiness of conversation? It isto master death.

She lived in fear of ifonic endings. (91)

The 21st chapter gives the novel the quality of genuine fiction, an art founded on the principle tha...

The main business of a lawyer is to take the romance, the mystery, the irony, the ambiguity out of e...

The man might have died in a fit; but then the jewels are missing," mused the Inspector, "Ha! I have...

They only asked for punishments that fitted their crimes. Not ones that came like cupboards with bui...

You are so lost to your higher self that you would resent me for my achievements, rather than celebr...

But you see, a rich country like America can perhaps afford to be stupid.

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

The worst thing about irony for me is that it attenuates emotion.

The world isn't fair? What a huge revelation! Some people in power abuse those they have power over?...

It is odd that the Bible says, ‘God created man,’ whereas it is the other way round: man has created...

I gather they are even vaguely pacifist, not on moral grounds but from an ingrained habit of belittl...

Our world will not die as the result of the bomb, as the papers say, it will die of laughter, of ban...

What are all these?" Clary asked."Vials of holy water, blessed knives, steel and silver blades," Jac...

What - what - what are you doing?" he demanded."I am almost six hundred years old," Magnus claimed, ...

That was the last cruel irony of Tobias’s life: that he doomed the woman he would have died to save.

Il me semble que je serais toujours bien la ou je ne suis pas.It seems to me that I will always be h...

Relate comic things in pompous fashion. Irregularity, in other words the unexpected, the surprising,...

What is your advice to young writers?” “Drink, fuck and smoke plenty of cigarettes.

I didn't know who tobelievebutone thing I doknow: when a man islivingmany claim relationshipsthat ar...

I feel no grief for being called somethingwhichI am not;in fact, it's enthralling, somehow, like a g...

sometimes when everything seems atits worstwhen all conspiresand gnawsand the hours, days, weeksyear...

I paid, got up, walkedto the door, openedit.I heard the mansay, "that guy'snuts."out on the street I...

I hope I know my own unworthiness, and that I hate and despise myself and all my fellow-creatures as...

Those darling byegone times, Mr Carker,' said Cleopatra, 'with their delicious fortresses, and their...

What tale do you like best to hear?' 'Oh, I have not much choice! They generally run on the same the...

John dear!" said I in the gentlest voice, "the key is down by the front steps, under a plantain leaf...

It is so hard to talk with John about my case, because he is so wise, and because he loves me so.

John says I musn't lose my strength, and has me take cod liver oil and lots of tonics and things, to...

Papa said that the parish priest in Abba was not spiritual enough. That was the problem with our peo...

If we ran Nigeria like this cell," he said, "we would have no problems in this country. Things are s...

The struggle for a free intelligence has always been a struggle between the ironic and the literal m...

Many things in this period have been hard to bear, or hard to take seriously. My own profession went...