Irony Quotes

Irony Quote of the day

I never used to believe in fate. I used to think you make your own life and then you call it fate. That's why I call it irony.

In passing, we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute.

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.

In the end, the Labour party could cease to represent labour. Stranger historic ironies have happened than that.

With every mistake, we must surely be learning.

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

Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.

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

Truth offends everyone outside its definitions. But the irony of truth is that the greater its potential for offense, the greater its potential for giving hope.

The irony of loneliness is that everybody shares it from time to time.

In golf your strengths and weaknesses will always be there. If you could improve your weaknesses, you would improve your game. The irony is that people prefer to practice their strengths.

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, a medley of extemporanea, And love is a thing that can never go wrong, and I am Marie of Romania.

It is one of history's ironies that Communism, advertised as a classless society, tended to breed a privileged class of feudal proportions.

I'd rather be partly great than entirely useless.

Laughter and irony are at heart reminders that we are not prisoners in this world, but voyagers through it.

Life is that perfect fine line between ironies.

The greatest irony in the world is that you are so blessed and don't know it.

The irony of New Testament lordship is that only in slavery to Christ can a man discover authentic freedom.

It's one of the ironies of human nature that the most sensitive people are generally insensitive to the feelings of others.

Faith is a luxury for those who are able to ignore what the rest of us must see every day. Pessimism, distrust, and irony are the holy trinity of my religion, irony in particular.

If you think this Universe is bad, you should see some of the others.

Assumptions are unopened windows that foolish birds fly into, and their broken bodies are evidence gathered too late.

If one cannot learn from the mistakes of others, one might as well become a Democrat.

Poets speak of hope in ladies smiles, but give me a smirk any day, I say.

There has to be irony, both in design and in the objects. I see around me a professional disease of taking everything too seriously. One of my secrets is to joke all the time

Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.

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

The irony about selling out is that they only call you a sell-out when your stuff finally sells - I've had products bearing my name since I was 14, but nobody was buying them then.

The irony is that science has served only to show how small human knowledge is.

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.

In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.

Irony is the hygiene of the mind.

Food is an important part of a balanced diet.

I want to get a tattoo of the word irony, only misspelled.

I regard everything with irony, including the face I see in the mirror when I wake up in the morning.

The best antidote for crime is justice. The irony we often fail to appreciate is that the more justice people enjoy, the fewer crimes they commit. Crime is the natural offspring of an unjust society.

What a cruel irony of fate, to pair together, like Siamese twins united by the shoulders, scientific adversaries of such contrasting character!

If the Ego is hateful, Love your neighbor as yourself becomes a cruel irony.

There are ... two kinds of people in this world, those who long to be understood and those who long to be misunderstood. It is the irony of life that neither is gratified.

Life is full of ironies and paradoxes.

To have arrived on this earth as a product of a biological accident, only to depart through human arrogance, would be the ultimate irony.

One of the ironies of courage, and the reason why we prize it so highly, is that we find it easier to be brave for someone else than we do for ourselves alone.

Everything we say about other people is really about ourselves.

I'd love to start some movements. What I'm tired of is irony, and sarcasm, and music/movies/what have you, not having the guts to mean anything.

Let's escape the past. The past didn't work. All we have is the future, and I'm the one who wrote "no future for you!" Don't let the irony be lost.

Accept that there are things in this world we can never explain and life will be understandable. That is the irony of life. It is also the beauty of it.

I quote others only in order the better to express myself.

It was growing late, and though one might stand on the brink of a deep chasm of disaster, one was still obliged to dress for dinner.

There is too much emphasis on technical perfection nowadays, and not enough on what music is actually about - irony, joy, human suffering, love.