Irony Quotes - Page 7

There's a certain amount of what I wear that I wear for irony.

...because really, sometimes the irony gods just get drunk.

The irony or humor of my pieces is never really calculated, but they somehow always end up that way. Humor, especially when dealing with matters of extreme gravity, has a way of toppling set ideas and opening up new modes of interpretation. Furthermore, adding humor tends to shift the power balance.

Humanity, perhaps, that quality of benevolence that humans have, without irony, named after themselves.

It is one of history's great ironies that capitalists built decent and humane societies on the basis of an amoral approach to the economics of pricing, whereas socialists built exploitative and inhumane societies on the basis of a morally inflamed approach to economics.

You can say that a small attack is one in which relatively few people die, but the minute you say that, you can sense the ironies in that statement. A blast in which five people are killed is a meaningful blast.

Irony is based on insecurity; people like to not like things because they don't understand them.

I think the French have a romantic cliche that Englishmen have great style, great music, irony and sense of humour. Well, sometimes cliches are true.

Language and, presumably, literature are more ancient and inevitable, more durable than any form of social organization. The revulsion, irony, or indifference often expressed by literature toward the state is essentially the reaction of the permanent-better yet, the infinite-against the temporary, against the finite.

I'm the type of spiritual person that doesn't speak openly about their spirituality. Irony is probably my religion.

When I started making movies about weird people, I knew they were weird, I was infected with irony, and I wanted New York to notice.

It is one of the ironies of history that reformers so often misjudge the consequences of their reforms.

irony is a way of having one's cake while appearing to eat it.

Do you see the irony at all, Tristan?’ I stare at him and shake my head. He seems determined not to speak again until I do. ‘What irony?’ I ask eventually, the words tumbling out in a hurried heap. ‘That I am to be shot as a coward while you get to live as one.

Everything becomes symbol and irony when you've been betrayed

The universe tends toward maximum irony. Don't push it.

guess they forgot to program us with any respect for authority." "well, I have a highly developed sense of irony.

Does anything on you work properly?" Asked ter Borcht. "Well, I do have a highly developed sense of irony." Replied Iggy.

Would you like me to [kill you] now?" asked Snape, his voice heavy with irony. "Or would you like a few moments to compose an epitaph?

Don't you find any irony in a vampire sucking up?

Hamlet, Kierkegaard, Kafka are ironists in the wake of Jesus. All Western irony is a repetition of Jesus' enigmas/riddles, in amalgam with the ironies of Socrates.

In the end, we know what makes us happy. We also know what makes us unhappy. That's the irony. We know and yet we still mess it up. That's part of the human condition, no, and why we need to work on it.

The irony of prison is that it takes years and years and years to plan an elaborate escape, but all you have is years and years and years.

On a throne at the center of a sense of humor sits a capacity for irony. All wit rests on a cheerful awareness of life's incongruities. It is a gentling awareness, and no politician without it should be allowed near power.

The Book of History is the Bible of Irony.