Irony Quotes - Page 3

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.

Royal Young's writing is that rare blend of irony and beauty.

Some of Mr. Gregory's poems have merely appeared in The New Yorker ; others are New Yorker poems: the inclusive topicality, the informed and casual smartness, the flat fashionable irony, meaningless because it proceeds from a frame of reference whose amorphous superiority is the most definite thing about it they are the trademark not simply of a magazine but of a class.

Dangerously well’— what an irony is this: it expresses precisely the doubleness, the paradox, of feeling ‘too well

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

Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology.

You know, sometimes I swear the whole universe runs on irony.

Irony differentiates. Cynicism never does.

Irony is wasted on the stupid

Being lost is worth the being found.

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 like the irony in my work.

Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge.

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

The irony of Christmas is always upon the poor in heart; the mystery of the solstice is always upon the rest of us.

It is an oversimplification to say that the opposite of irony is oversimplification.

From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent.

Irony is just honesty with the volume cranked up.

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.

A $20 haircut hardly ever lasts longer than a $5 haircut.

I am someone who takes everything very literally. I simply do not understand irony, a defect I have had ever since I was able to think independently.

Van Gogh was so under appreciated in his time, he sold only one of his 900 paintings while alive. Posthumously, he became one of the most famous artists of all time and his work is now considered priceless. Oh the irony.

Between "just desserts" and "tragic irony" we are given quite a lot of scope for our particular talent. Generally speaking, things have gone about as far as they can possibly go when things have got about as bad as they reasonably get.

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

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