Irony Quotations

Although my life is far from perfect, the irony is that in a divorced parent's custody schedule - with days on and days off - instead of like it was before, when I felt ragged and still oddly guilty all the time, now I feel guilty but not ragged.

I am aware it's easy and may be fashionable to pose with a slum child, and the irony of getting the media along means that it can come across as disingenuous. But you take these things on board, and you hope you mean it whenever you get stuck into something.

Irony is one of my favorite aspects of life.

As I write, I control my anxiety and anguish thanks to the invaluable aid of irony and humor. But every night I am subdued by an anxiety that knows no irony, and I must wait until the next day to rediscover the blend of anguish and humor that characterizes my writing and that generates my style.

My career progressed slowly. Real slow at a time. The irony of it was I had the best part of my career between when I was 45 and 49 years old. That's when most people are in their twilight, waiting to get to the Champions Tour. And that's when I made most of my hay.

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.

My dad moved to London in his early 20s and didn't really go back. So the irony is I've spent lots and lots of time in Ireland, but not with my dad. I've shot films in Belfast, where he's from. And I've shot in Dun Laoghaire. Which is great. And I've shot in Dublin.

Richard Branson once said: 'Tony's very good at selling bands and he's very good at making television programmes. But he'll never be great at either, until he decides which one he wants to do.' I entirely accept that. That doesn't matter to me very much. I like the irony of the two lives.

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

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

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

Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.

Making a film that's supposed to be fun to watch is really hard - that's the weird irony of it.

Life is that perfect fine line between ironies.

I love the irony of movies. I really do. For whatever reason, I'm incredibly intrigued by the irony of reality in a motion picture.

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

United Nations peacekeepers are going all over the world spreading AIDS even while they're trying to bring peace. What a supreme irony.

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

But the irony is that because the band isn't the focus any more, it allows me the chance to enjoy being a member of Def Leppard much more.

In the end, we know what makes us happy. We also know what makes us unhappy. That's the irony. We know and yet we still mess it up. That's part of the human condition, no, and why we need to work on it.

One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

That's the irony in the work: the best stories are the worst things that happen. My best times were somebody else's worst.

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

Irony is just honesty with the volume cranked up.

Here's the irony in what I do: When I go out to eat, I like classic French food. I like amazing Japanese food that has such a history that it goes back hundreds of years. And I also like really innovative food as well.

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.

The accident was a horrible thing - but that horrible thing made Chris, at the end of his life, Superman. It's a happy irony if there is such a thing. I'm proud to have known him.

I love the French for their sarcasm, their irony. I love them for their bad moods.

I was not interested in irony; I wanted to emphasize the primacy of the idea in making art

I have three sons, as different from each other as any three humans could be but connected by their shared love of Guitar Hero. I'm lucky to be married to a man I can call my soulmate without any irony whatsoever.

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

That is where the irony of the film comes off, in terms of the language it employs - where he tries desperately to be a 'TV Dad,' to give advice and it's so pat it becomes ridiculous.

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

Here's an irony of the history of conservatism's relationship with business and business's relationship with conservatism: 'Wall Street' used to be the right-wing industrialists of the forties and fifties' greatest term of derision. (Wall Street was the place that humiliated them by forcing them, hat in hand, to beg for capital).

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

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

Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved.

I love the irony. I'm perceived as being really young and yet I have the clinical condition of an old man.

Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge.

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.

On one level, I enjoyed the irony of the situation: a girl who's from a Cuban or Puerto Rican household who's been discouraged from speaking Spanish.

Obviously, there's a good bit of irony to that scene, ... A lot of what began in that first war (in 1991) can be extrapolated to what we're seeing today. I think those remain issues we should be talking about, even arguing about.

Many people think making a film about history... about war... about the Holocaust, it might be heavy, dramatic and traumatic. I don't see things like that... you can find irony everywhere. It's how I look at life.

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

Irony is the hygiene of the mind.

Kids can't meet their own needs until their teens, sometimes even late teens. And, as we know, a teenager can eat you out of house and home. The irony is it would be even more difficult if our children grew like primates.

I can't help feeling there's a terrible irony attached to how a player of Willie's ability could end up with relatively little to show for his career. Today, a player like him, even after seven or eight years, would never need to worry about money again.

I feel real bad for Marc-Andre. He did a great job. You could say there's a bitter irony in this.

Here were the tart herbs of plain American speech, the pasture, without the flowers of elocution... the clean rhythms... the irony and the homespun tenderness that, in a fine perforation, reached a sustained exaltation.

If it's approached as just a fun read, it's like romantic comedy with a marriage plot. If it's read more profoundly, there's delicious irony ... and incredible insight into human foibles. ... I hope this is a chance for all kinds of people to discover this real gem.

There is a percentage of kids who don't go on to college for a variety of reasons. And the irony is that, often, those are the kids that are staying in the community and not going away.

There is huge irony here. Six Democrats in Congress were eliminated, but the seventh victim may turnout to be the author of the plan.

My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch.

Irony became the head that bit its tail and then there is no way out.

Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment

I will also say that there's a kind of aura around young male writers, say age 26, the hot male writer thing that never surrounds women playwrights. And there's a tremendous irony there, because the playwrights most interesting to read and see now, the ones who are really pushing the work forward aesthetically, are almost all women.

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

It is hard to miss the irony in the fact that the very same week that Republicans were publicly heralding Congressman Paul Ryan's plan to inject market forces into the American health care system, they were crafting a budget deal to strip them from the health reform law.

I still see the world as a place of bitter irony and black humour, failed hopes, dashed plans. I hope to make my work sparer, to outgrow my desire to show off.

I think that's a strange irony that we're playing Truman State. Aside from Joplin, there isn't anyplace else on the face of the earth that will be more touched and more impacted than Kirksville and the Truman State campus by the loss of John Ware.

I think that televisions are unnecessarily complex. The irony is that as the pictures get better and the choice of content gets broader, that the complexity of the experience of using the television gets more and more complicated.

It is a common tragic irony that the loudest people are rarely the ones who are the smartest or most correct, yet they are more often than not the ones with the most unsolicited advice on how everything should be.

It is a common tragic irony that the loudest people with the least education or variety of life experiences are rarely the ones who are the smartest or most correct, yet they are more often than not the ones with the most unsolicited advice on how everything should be.

It is a cruel irony of history that he left at the moment he was most needed, the very moment he was expected to provide leadership in helping to settle the future status of Kosovo.

You know, the irony is perfect. The world works in an interesting way, but we (were) both pretty busy that day.

That's the part that was so bittersweet for Sue, ... It's so in line with so many things that happened in her career. From being head coach of the 1980 Olympic team when we boycotted, to our first Final Four when she watched the game in her hotel room in New Orleans. The irony of all that is that she was the one person who was OK with the circumstances.

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.

You are learning many social cues and nuances that you didn't pick up on when you were younger, such as irony and sarcasm, and these can work for and against you. At this point in your life, you may misinterpret a comment that was made as a compliment because you mistook it as sarcasm. What your friends say has a huge impact. You are constantly wondering, 'What did he mean by that?' or 'How do I look?' These feelings are common to everyone but are critical to teenagers because they are torn two ways. It is equally important for you to be an individual and to fit in.

That's the sad irony in this. This was a room that was built specifically to prolong the life of the collection.

Irony can elude the genius among us, sometimes.

The real irony is that this is probably the most important moment in the laboratories' 28-year history in terms of being a very critical part of our nation's effort to address these significant energy problems. At that moment, we're facing a substantial threat to the laboratory.

The universe tends toward maximum irony. Don't push it.

The trouble with talking about irony is, it's such a slippery thing that the second you start talking about it, you're a better example of it than you are an analyst.

Part of the irony of environmentalism is questing for solutions when you know you're part of the problem.

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

History, in the end, becomes a form of irony.

Love: the sickest of Irony’s sick jokes. The place where logic and order go to die.

That's the difference between irony and sarcasm. Irony can be spontaneous, while sarcasm requires volition. You have to create sarcasm.

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

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.

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

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.

In my own work, humor is necessary, for the reasons stated above, but also because forbidding your characters silliness, absurdity, irony, and vulgarity forbids them aspects of the human experience every bit as universal as sorrow.

There is a bit of sweet irony to that.

There is a certain irony in this because so much of the effort of the quartet had been spent on reducing the powers of the presidency and building up the powers of the prime minister and cabinet.

The reason ... our pervasive cultural irony is at once so powerful and so unsatisfying is that an ironist is impossible to pin down.

And with alphabetical irony Nigeria follows New Zealand

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.

Irony is the glory of slaves.

Truly a little bit of irony here, coming back to this stadium. I'd seen enough in 18 innings, but this is the greatest trip of my life, ... This is going to be the first World Series game I ever attended that I didn't play in.

You were so near death that ghosts crowded around you, weeping silver tears, waiting for you with such smiles. You humans, you know, whoever built you sewed irony into your sinews.

You humans, you know, whoever built you sewed irony into your sinews.

Waking Up Dead does a great job of portraying the irony of stardom's illusive promise of money, fame and power only to have it boomerang back and cut so many artists to shreds.

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.

Is there some irony here? Probably. But sometimes in order to enact real reform, interesting alliances have to be made.

What an interesting irony that the foremost chip promoter in the world comes from Wisconsin and Wisconsin would be the first state to say, 'Hey, at least get our permission first'. It's good that lawmakers in Wisconsin are paying attention to the fact that this technology even exists.

What an irony it is, the senator from Colorado objects to a simple resolution,

The other irony is that Roberts is a lifelong advocate of federalism and states' rights. Like his mentor, Rehnquist, he has a narrow view of the commerce clause.

People generally don't associate spring flowers with the unhappy days of their lives. Actually, it's pretty much the opposite. They come in here and see something that's beautiful and peaceful. There's a strange irony about it all if you really think about it.

Some people do it with irony and humor. Some people do it earnestly. Some people are ashamed of having to ask the question. And every so often there will be a journalist from Swaziland who doesn't know anything about it -- wonderful.