Irony Quotes - Page 2

What cannot be said above all must not be silenced but written.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

My friend "M" says the irony of being a zombie is that everything is funny, but you can't smile, because your lips have rotted off.

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.

Your favorite virtue? An appreciation for irony.

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

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

Honesty and unpopular opinions are the toughest sell in a country with an irony-deficiency.

One of the ironies of the stock market is the emphasis on activity. Brokers, using terms such as 'marketability' and 'liquidity,' sing the praises of companies with high share turnover... but investors should understand that what is good for the croupier is not good for the customer. A hyperactive stock market is the pick pocket of enterprise.

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument.

Even things that are true can be proved.

Everyone is always going through tough things, the irony in it is that everyone thinks what they're going through is just as hard as what you are. Life isn't about surviving this, it's about understanding this.

There's a large strain of irony in our human affairs... Interwoven with our affairs is this wonderful spirit of irony which prevents us from ever being utterly and irretrievably serious, from being unaware of the mysterious nature of our existence.

Time changes all things and cultivates even in herself an appreciation of irony, and, therefore, why shouldn't I have changed a trifle?

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.

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

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

Crying wolf may have been the boy's undoing, but the true irony was that the wolves were always lurking nearby.