Irony Quotes

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

Our universities are so determined to impose tolerance that they'll expel you for saying what you think and never notice the irony

Talk about impersonating an identity, about locking into a role, about irony; I went to cover the war and the war covered me; an old story, unless of course you've never heard it.

I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize.

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

There are a million ways to make money in the markets. The irony is that they are all very difficult to find.

The irony of the information age is that it lends credibility to uninformed opinion.

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

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.

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

People use irony as a defense mechanism.

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.

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

The surest sign of the estrangement of the opinions of two persons is when they both say something ironical to each other and neither of them feels the irony.

Here we have the great irony of modern nutrition: at a time when hundreds of millions of people do not have enough to eat, hundreds of millions more are eating too much and are overweight or obese.

Failure is a trickster with a keen sense of irony and cunning. It takes great delight in tripping one when success is almost within reach.

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

Irony has only emergency use. Carried over time it is the voice of the trapped who have come to enjoy their cage.

Why sunset is more colorful than sunrise? It's an irony of life saying, 'sometimes, good things happen in goodbyes.

The grim irony of investing, then, is that we investors as a group not only don't get what we pay for, we get precisely what we don't pay for. So if we pay for nothing, we get everything.

Humor, together with irony,forms a safeguard against idolatry.

The irony is that the person not taking risks feels the same amount of fear as the person who regularly takes risks.

Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment.

The antidote to hubris, to overweening pride, is irony, that capacity to discover and systematize ideas.

Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world takes everything at face value.

To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, "I wish I had known this some time ago.

If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in its unfolding and accepts responsibility for a life lived in the midst of such paradox.

Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do

Far more quickly than reason and logic, irony can penetrate rage and puncture self-pity.

The irony of the process of thought control: the more energy you put into trying to control your ideas and what you think about, the more your ideas end up controlling you.

The prince of darkness is a gentleman!

I feel that there's hardly any irony in my work; if there's anything, there'll be sincerity, which people sometimes find hard to deal with.

When irony first makes itself known in a young man's life, it can be like his first experience of getting drunk; he has met with a powerful thing which he does not know how to handle.

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

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the road less traveled by and they CANCELLED MY FRIKKIN' SHOW. I totally shoulda took the road that had all those people on it. Damn.

The irony of man's condition is that the deepest need is to be free of the anxiety of death and annihilation; but it is life itself which awakens it, and so we must shrink from being fully alive.

What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around.

Your favorite virtue? An appreciation for irony.

A play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate ignorance-you set free the concealed irony, the deadly joke.

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 irony of acquiring a foreign tongue is that I have amassed just enough cheap, serviceable words to fuel my desires and never, never enough lavish, impudent ones to feed them.

There's no more delicious irony on the face of the Earth than environmental protesters being led away in plastic handcuffs that have a biodegradability horizon line of, like, 40,000 years.

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

Men who retain irony are not to be trusted. They can't always resist an impulse to tickle themselves.

Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony.

God hides the fires of hell within paradise.

Even things that are true can be proved.

I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.

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.

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