Quotes and Sayings About Irony

Cruel irony, the poor man tormented with hunger feeds those who plead his case.
-- Albert Camus

#Men #Irony #Hunger

Italics provide a wonderful advantage: you see, right away, that the words are in a rush. When something exists at a slant, you can't help but consider irony.
-- Ann Beattie

#Helping #Irony #Wonderful

You love her," Teddy observed quietly. Henry replied with an uncharacteristic lack of irony: "Yes." Teddy's eyes shifted to the plaster interlacing that decorated the ceiling in curlicues. "Lord, you never make it easy, do you." "No.
-- Anna Godbersen

#Eye #Ceilings #Irony

Cervantes is the most important Spanish writer. But he is not the most representative of the Spanish. His irony, his sense of humor - they are too subtle to seem Spanish.
-- Antonio Munoz Molina

#Important #Irony #Sense Of Humor

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

#Artist #Culture #Irony

The irony is palpable - technical access has never been greater, cultural access never weaker.
-- Beeban Kidron

#Technology #Irony

When I was young I had no means or time, and now I have the means and time, I have no youth.
-- Bess Streeter Aldrich

#Mean #Irony #Youth

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.
-- Brando Skyhorse

#Luxury #Able #Irony

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

#Being Happy #People #Irony

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

#Blessed #Veins #Irony

I suppose that's one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.
-- Charlie Chaplin

#Irony #Moments #Irony Of Life

At the best, sarcasms, bitter irony, scathing wit, are a sort of swordplay of the mind. You pink your adversary, and he is forthwith dead; and then you deserve to be hung for it.
-- Christian Nestell Bovee

#Sarcasm #Mind #Irony

Even if that were true, it wouldn't be irony," Lucas pointed out. "Irony is the contrast between what's said and what happens.
-- Claudia Gray

#Irony #Said #Contrast

Irony is the glory of slaves.
-- Czeslaw Milosz

#Irony #Slave #Glory

Corporate irony not only ridicules the thing it is selling but the very act of selling it. In the process it disarms critics by making anyone who goes against the flow of commerce seem clueless.
-- David Denby

#Clueless #Flow #Irony

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.
-- David Jeremiah

#Giving #Definitions #Irony

One of the persistent ironies of reform is the impossibility of predicting the full consequences of change ...
-- Diane Ravitch

#Change #Reform #Irony

Perhaps the saddest irony of depression is that suicide happens when the patient gets a little better and can again function sufficiently.
-- Dick Cavett

#Suicide #Littles #Irony

No sense of the irony of human experience, that we are the highest form of life on earth, and yet ineffably sad because we know what no other animal knows, that we must die.
-- Don DeLillo

#Animal #Earth #Irony

Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment.
-- Edwin Percy Whipple

#Irony #Insult #Compliment

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

#Ease #Irony #Draws

Irony is the hygiene of the mind.
-- Elizabeth Bibesco

#Hygiene #Mind #Irony

Haven't you picked up on the irony of life by now? Things only just happen when you're not ready. When you're ready, you start trying, and gadamn I feel like trying right now.
-- Elizabeth Reyes

#Trying #Irony #Ready

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

#Party #Irony #Stranger

Never joke with the press. Irony does not translate into newsprint.
-- Erica Jong

#Doe #Irony #Journalism

I've learned not to hide behind a veil of irony - to talk about my work in a more honest way.
-- Florence Welch

#Veils #Way #Irony

Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#Details #Irony #Remember

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

#Irony #Argument #Needed

To drag a man in fetters into the grand illuminated temple of liberty, and call upon him to join you in joyous anthems, were inhuman mockery and sacrilegious irony.
-- Frederick Douglass

#Men #Liberty #Irony

Well, it'd certainly be fascinating if we discovered that gays were better at being married than heterosexuals are. Talk about irony.
-- Gail Collins

#Gay #Irony #Married