Irony Quotes - Page 4

Irony: Don't let yourself be controlled by it, especially during uncreative moments.

This human nature is shabby stuff, as you may know from introspection.

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

The irony is I stopped going to church a few weeks later.

It's an irony of our times that men seeking peace must make war.

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

I know the universe has a sense of irony, and sometimes you get reminded just how sadistic that can be.

Irony - The modern mode: either the devil’s mark or the snorkel of sanity.

It's no small irony that the government inevitably and invariably ends up promoting precisely that which they would most like to repress.

... the irony of life is not that you cannot forget but that you can.

Irony deals with opposites; it has nothing to do with coincidence.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

The irony is that I use computers every day of my life to do music because I edit all of my music in a computer. But when it comes to doing live processing, I prefer, as a performer with an instrument, not just having the computer as the only thing I have. I really prefer and find it much more flexible to have the limitations of pedals.

Because he had nothing to hide, he did perhaps appear to have forfeited a little of his strength. But that is the irony of honesty.

It is one of history's greatest ironies that, over the centuries, the pursuit of pleasure has resulted in more pain than enjoyment.

You yourself are participating in the evil, or you are not alive. Whatever you do is evil for somebody. This is one of the ironies of the whole creation.