Ironic Quotes - Page 4

When I was a boy, unconsciously, spontaneously I learned the art of telling ironic stories.

This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.

Even things that are true can be proved.

Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves.

I guess it's ironic. I just did the Gucci cologne ad, and I was the cologne thief in junior high.

A young writer is easily tempted by the allusive and ethereal and ironic and reflective, but the declarative is at the bottom of most good writing.

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

It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from our creator, our very self-consciousness, is also the one thing that divides us from our fellow creatures. It was a bitter birthday present from evolution.

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

Humor brings insight and tolerance.

Irony is Fate's most common figure of speech.

Barbarism? That's ironic coming from a woman helping to prepare us for slaughter. And what's she basing our success on? Our table manners?

Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism

Sixty percent of all Indians live in urban areas, but nobody's writing about them. They're really an underrepresented population, and the ironic thing is very, very few of those we call Native American writers actually grew up on reservations, and yet most of their work is about reservations.

The ironic humor comes from the distance between what we understand about ourselves and what is truly going on in ourselves.

I would say my work is anti-ironic.

To be honest, I don't watch a lot of TV. It's kind of ironic because I'm on TV.

Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past.

The thing is, comedy's gone in a weird direction. People are really into ironic comedy and fakeness and cleverness.

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

It's ironic that in our culture everyone's biggest complaint is about not having enough time; yet nothing terrifies us more than the thought of eternity.

The struggle for a free intelligence has always been a struggle between the ironic and the literal mind.

I used to love Kurt Cobain, when he was telling people we're a pop band. People would laugh, they thought of it as good old ironic Kurt. But he wasn't being ironic.

It's ironic that this amazing invention of the Internet has made information gathering easier available than ever, but that this platform also helps spread misinformation.

Those who condemn the self-righteous for the sake of self-discovery do so with ironic self-righteousness.