Irony Quotes

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...

Actually—and this was where I began to feel seriously uncomfortable—some such divine claim underlay ...

When Maimonides says that the Messiah will come but that 'he may tarry,' we see the origin of every ...

How ya doin'?' I always think, What kind of a question is that?, and I always reply, 'A bit early to...

Sooner or later, all talk among foreigners in Pyongyang turns to one imponderable subject. Do the lo...

In our native terms, the ironic style is often compounded with the sardonic and the hard-boiled; eve...

Crazy things seem normal, normal things seem crazy.

Suddenly the thought that the end of her life was imminent shocked him; it was one thing to pity som...

The Emperor, you see, protects... He protects mankind, through the Legions, through the Martial corp...

how can it be that the modern human mind is capable of precise logical analysis, and yet simultaneou...

Even in dying, a Thennanin ship was reputed to be not worth putting out of its misery. In battle the...

I think the main function of contemporary irony is to protect thespeaker from being interpreted as n...

God, what a ghastly enterprise to be in, though--and what an odd way to achieve success. I'm an exhi...

Irony and hip ennui are extremely authoritarian.

Commercial comedy's often set up to feature an ironist makingdevastating sport of someone who's naiv...

Postmodern irony and cynicism's become an end in itself, a measure of hip sophistication and literar...

The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the fla...

I don't think irony's meant to synergize with anything as heartfelt assadness.

All U.S. irony is based on an implicit "I don't really mean what I say." So what does irony as a cul...

In sum, then a conservative tech writer offers a really attractive way of looking at viewer passivit...

And it never even occurs to them their certainty that they are different is what makes them the same...

Now it turns out that a few broadsheet film critics in Britain do indeed belong to a category of peo...

Labour day is a great American holiday that peoplecelebrate by going out and buying products made in...

A writer flirts with schizophrenia, nurtures synesthesia, and embraces obsessive-compulsive disorder...

There's always a 'she'. Isn't there?

He also said that he marvelled that among the Greeks, those who were skilful in a thing contend toge...

If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; But if you really make them think, they...

I myself," said Gibbon, "am slightly underdone in the personal worthlessness line. It was Papa's fau...

I think this goes more to the idea of 'relentless irony' than 'divine providence.

No, there's a group of hardened, fossilised men opposed by fresh young revolutionaries as John Butte...

But that's men all over ... Poor dears, they can't help it. They haven't got logical minds.

(One character on another:)"Don't you know that I passionately dote on every chin on his face?

Salcombe Hardy groaned: "How long, O Lord, how long shall we have to listen to all this tripe about ...

Nothing goes so well with a hot fire and buttered crumpets as a wet day without and a good dose of c...

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,a medley of extemporanea,And love is a thing that can never go ...

We're not obsessed by anything, you see," insisted Ford."...""And that's the deciding factor. We can...

In the center lay the exploded carcass of a lonely sperm whale that hadn't lived long enough to be d...

So, like I said, these are a bunch of really sweet guys, but you wouldn't want to share a Galaxy wit...

Jane, who is much better at reading guide books than I am (I always read them on the way back to see...

Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest iron...

How do you like your blue-eyed boy Mr Death?

Georgie, I've got it," she said. "I've guessed what it means."Now though Georgie was devoted to his ...

The only ironic thing about that song is that it's called 'Ironic' and it is written by a woman who ...

I was much affected by the internal troubles of the Punch family; I thought that with a little more ...

If the empire had been afflicted by any recent calamity, by a plague, a famine, or an unsuccessful w...

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

So this was the Ashram's final joke on me? Once I had learned to accept my loud, chatty, social natu...

Humor is hard to catch in a second language. Especially when you're as serious a young man as Giovan...

Time makes fools of us all. Our only comfort is that greater shall come after us.

Man is literally split in two: he has an awareness of his own splendid uniqueness in that he sticks ...

You ought to be ironical the minute you get out of bed. You ought to wake up with your mouth full of...

You're worse than decent. You're virtuous.

So through a world of piety I made my way to Sebastian.

In 1913, when Anthony Patch was twenty-five, two years were already gone since irony, the Holy Ghost...

Once upon a time all the men of mind and genius in the world became of one belief- that is to say, o...

Food is an important part of a balanced diet.

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

The robots came bearing a gift and the name of it was "Plenty."Plenty is a habit-forming drug. You d...

There is no greater cruelty than a genius stumbling over something idiotic.

What each individual wills is obstructed by everyone else, and what emerges is something that no one...

Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belo...

Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn’t really hurt.

Boy, these conservatives are really something, aren't they? They're all in favor of the unborn. They...

With every mistake, we must surely be learning.

Metaphysics in philosophy is, of course, supposed to characterize what is real - literally real. The...

It is bound to be a failure, every book is a failure, but I do know with some clarity what kind of b...

Then you do not belong here. Death holds no sweetness in this house. We are not warriors, nor soldie...

The things I do for love.

Bad Religion has never been about criticizing people who are Christian. But we've always been about ...

Irony takes nothing away from pathos.

And involuntarily I compared the childish sarcasm, the religious sarcasm of Voltaire with the irresi...

Kemp: I demonstrated conclusively this morning that invisibility--I.M: Never mind what YOU'VE DEMONS...

Indeed it may be said with some confidence that the average man never really thinks from end to end ...

From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent.

If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they...

Since ideology, particularly in it's shallower versions, is peculiarly destructive of the capacity t...

«It's true, Christian-like or not; and is about as Christian-like as most other things in the world,...

The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's...

Being a woman is worse than being a farmer there is so much harvesting and crop spraying to be done:...

Don’t underestimate the value of irony—it is extremely valuable.

The world had been divided into two parts that sought to annihilate each other because they both des...

Nobody these days holds the written word in such high esteem as police states do.

Even You-Know-Who can't split himself into seven.

Would you like me to [kill you] now?" asked Snape, his voice heavy with irony. "Or would you like a ...

My mind went back to that picture in the obstetrics book. A cow standing in the middle of a gleaming...

Scary discovery of the day: Most people who RT @yokoono's tweets do so without irony.

I cannot say much for this Monarch's Sense--Nor would I if I could, for he was a Lancastrian. I supp...

Mr. Bennet, how can you abuse your own children in such a way? Youtake delight in vexing me. You hav...

She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they sho...

Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.

How unfortunate, considering I have decided to loathe him for eternity

That will do extremely well, child. You have delighted us long enough. Let the other young ladies ha...

But it was a matter of great consolation to her, that what brought evil to herself would bring good ...

Jesus Christ was innocent too,' said Svejk, 'and all the same they crucified him. No one anywhere ha...

I got mixed up with some oddness in my youth, and the long and short of it is that I can't shuffle o...

My momma always said, 'You and Elvis are pretty good, but y'all ain't no Chuck Berry.

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to ap...

Hell's bells, irony blows.

Nay, but prithee, with sprinkles 'pon it instead," I said solemnly, "and frosting of white.