Irony Quotes - Page 5

[But] we accept irony through a device called metaphor. And through that we grow and become deeper human beings.

Irony is the glory of slaves.

When I was young I had no means or time, and now I have the means and time, I have no youth.

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.

The irony of a director going to film festivals is you never get to see any of the films.

Irony is the birth-pangs of the objective mind (based upon the misrelationship, discovered by the I , between existence and the idea of existence). Humor is the birth -pangs of the absolute mind (based upon the misrelationship, discovered by the I , between the I and the idea of the I .

Every man is a prisoner, and the greatest irony of all is to be the prisoner of another man.

We Americans only voted for George Bush to prove to the British that Americans understand irony. Unfortunately, it kinda backfired.

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

Irony is the word I forget the meaning of immediately after I look it up, but I kind of feel like I live in a constant state of it.

The ironies in the commonplace are my inspiration and delight.

Irony dissolves sentiment, but occasionally a sentiment is strong enough to dissolve irony.

The naive is what is or appears to be natural, individual, or classical to the point of irony or to the point of continuous alternation of self-creation and self-destruction. If it is only instinct, then it is childlike, childish, or silly; if it is only intention, it becomes affectation.

Nobody these days holds the written word in such high esteem as police states do.

Never joke with the press. Irony does not translate into newsprint.

Certain audiences get the double meaning and some of the references and ironies, but there's definitely been shows where I feel like I'm not doing it well enough for it to come across as anything other than "oh, she's hot and she's dancing."

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

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

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.

Irony: While we increasingly hold people more responsible if they drink and drive, we hold women less responsible if they drink and have sex.

The rottenness of politics in Yugoslavia didn't come as a surprise. The main lesson is that this is a war which could have easily been stopped by Europe. What was lacking was any will to do so. It's an irony of the achievement of Europe that it had lived for 40 years under the assumption of the unimaginability of internal wars, so it didn't know what to do with it when it was confronted with one close up.

You should never try irony or self-effacing humour.

The irony of good customer service is that over time it will bring in more new customers than promotions and price slashing ever did!

Irony is a qualification of subjectivity.

When or if we "quote, unquote" do not like our work, it is probably because we do not feel safe where we go to work. So when you say, what can we do?, the irony is that the best thing we can do is, well one option, is to quit.