Top 100 The Irony Quotes
#1. And the irony is that they wrote better without access to my quotes.
Steve Carlton
#2. Because really, sometimes the irony gods just get drunk.
Libba Bray
#3. The irony is that what was supposed to be a great vulnerability of Hillary Clinton , which the Iraq war vote which she has acknowledged was a terrible mistake, has lent an aura of strength in a funny way.
Joe Conason
#4. It's far more "normal" and even logical for people to get along with one another than it is for them to argue, fight and not get along. The irony is that society has conditioned us to be afraid of each other - to set up boundaries between ourselves and others
Anonymous
#5. 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.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#6. The irony of a director going to film festivals is you never get to see any of the films.
Tom Hooper
#7. That was the irony: Her mother loved things so much that she had nothing.
Liane Moriarty
#8. In one of his darker moments, the irony started him laughing and he couldn't stop, and the sounds that came from him, before finally tapering into sobs, were so far from mirth they might have been the forced inversion of laughter-like a soul pulled inside out to reveal its rawest meats.
Laini Taylor
#9. The problem is that once the rules of art are debunked, and once the unpleasant realities the irony diagnoses are revealed and diagnosed, "then" what do we do?
David Foster Wallace
#10. Skype is a wonderful thing. The irony is that you never Skype when you're in the same country as someone.
Richard Fleeshman
#11. The irony of American history is the tendency of good white Americanas to presume racial innocence. Ignorance of how we are shaped racially is the first sign of privilege.
In other words. It is a privilege to ignore the consequences of race in America.
Tim Wise
#12. 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.
Harlan Coben
#13. Such is the irony of life on earth; that living in extreme simplicity free from indulgence turns this persecuted Middle Eastern fatherless carpenter, into the definition of vivacity, and one of the most recognized names in the world.
Sayed Mahdi Modarresi
#14. Sam Brownback, Mike Huckabee and Tom Tancredo - those were the three guys who said they do not believe in evolution. The irony will be on them when their campaigns die off in favor of stronger, fitter campaigns.
Bill Maher
#15. 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.
Nicholas Sparks
#16. The irony is that the more we fight age, the more it shows. Paint on a 50-year-old face brings to mind a Gilbert and Sullivan comic figure. Smooth the cheeks, and suddenly the ear lobes and hands look out of place. Do we run around in October, painting the gold leaves green?
Karen DeCrow
#17. Kindness toward strangers is rare in North Korea. There is risk in helping others. The irony was that by forcing us to be good citizens, the state made accusers and informers of us all.
Hyeonseo Lee
#18. The irony is that while God doesn't need us but still wants us, we desperately need God but don't really want Him most of the time.
Francis Chan
#19. The irony is that we are busy doing many things that don't matter and we have no time for things that do. Shouldn't we reverse it?-RVM
R.v.m.
#20. The keynote of American civilization is a sort of warm-hearted vulgarity. The Americans have none of the irony of the English, none of their cool poise, none of their manner. But they do have friendliness. Where an Englishman would give you his card, an American would very likely give you his shirt.
Raymond Chandler
#21. What happens when we're dead? The irony is that all our questions wil be answered after we die. We spend our whole life trying to figure out the truth and the only way we'll find out what it is, is to get hit by a bus. And the only comfort that religion offers is that God is driving that bus.
John Ryman
#22. The irony is, of course, that many of the values that I was raised with, that I think are very important, that I hold dear, are the result of a religious faith.
Steve Coogan
#23. We think craft is important, and the irony has always been that horror may be disregarded by critics, but often they are the best-made movies you're going to find in terms of craft. You can't scare people if they see the seams.
James Wan
#24. You've seen what I can do," Thomas replied, trying to sound as dangerous as he felt. "You've watched me in the Maze and the Scorch." He almost wanted to laugh at the irony. They had made him into a killer ... to save people?
James Dashner
#25. It could draw from a greater reservoir of freedom. The irony could develop an even greater ease.
Elfriede Jelinek
#26. The world changes, we do not, therein lies the irony that kills us.
Anne Rice
#27. Kutesosh gajair'is." It was a bare whisper.
"Such simple phrases. I destroy the enemy. I protect life. And my personal favorite - "
"Kun-kabynalti osu fuir'is."
"None shall die while I watch over them. The irony is so beautiful." Elkinsair wiped at his eyes.
Patrick Weekes
#28. Here is the irony: Europe dominated the world, but it failed to dominate itself. For five hundred years Europe tore itself apart in civil wars, and as a result there was never a European empire - there was instead a British empire, a Spanish empire, a French empire, a Portuguese empire, and so on.
George Friedman
#29. Careless and not particularly biting, it was easier to shrug off than anything in the first book which depicted me as an inarticulate zombie confused by the irony of Randy Newman's I Love L.A.
Bret Easton Ellis
#30. Even now, the irony that so non-intellectual a man should choose to engage the Soviet Union on the battlefield of ideas has eluded most commentators and historians.
Richard Perle
#31. I am aware it's easy and may be fashionable to pose with a slum child, and the irony of getting the media along means that it can come across as disingenuous. But you take these things on board, and you hope you mean it whenever you get stuck into something.
Erin O'Connor
#32. The irony of the information age is that it lends credibility to uninformed opinion.
Stephen Coonts
#33. If you don't choose my life," he said, "you will marry in the spring."
"That's a trap."
"No, it's a bet. A bet that you like your independence too much not to fight alongside me."
"I hope you see the irony in what you have just said.
Marie Rutkoski
#34. After all the talk about the end of the world the irony was that it actually happened.
Michael J. Seidlinger
#35. unaccustomed Tuscan sunlight, and his body ached from contorting his long frame into a plane seat. The irony of hating long distance flights wasn't lost on him. After all, he spent most of his life jetting between hotels. But he wasn't
Sally Clements
#36. The irony is that the person not taking risks feels the same amount of fear as the person who regularly takes risks.
Peter McWilliams
#37. I threw my hands on my hips, shocked by the irony. A Mather helping a Greensmith? Hell was freezing over somewhere beneath our feet and every kind of farm animal was sprouting wings to fly.
Leigh Goff
#38. But the irony is they think they're being tough on ISIS and Trump thinks he's being tough on ISIS. Senator Rubio in his interview with you touched on it very, very lightly.
Ted Koppel
#39. The irony of life is to realize that you live only to die.
Nely Cab
#40. The irony about selling out is that they only call you a sell-out when your stuff finally sells - I've had products bearing my name since I was 14, but nobody was buying them then.
Tony Hawk
#41. The irony of justice is that the feelings that precede it and those which fruit from it are never fair and balanced.
Cecelia Ahern
#42. Not to mention the fact that your uncle seems determined to drink away the coffers of House Jacos." Another swig of gin. Coriane almost laughed at the irony. "How selfish.
Victoria Aveyard
#43. The newly-minted captain admits the irony between the gold on his shoulders and the lack of gold in his pockets.
Patrick O'Brian
#44. I'm really into the irony of writing vaguely radical plays that instantly win huge establishment awards. It's really amusing.
Israel Horovitz
#45. The irony of New Testament lordship is that only in slavery to Christ can a man discover authentic freedom.
R.C. Sproul
#46. The irony here is we're looking for water and we're looking out for water. Without it you die, and with too much of it you die.
Cody Lundin
#47. The irony of primary parent laws is that on the one hand feminists were arguing for women's equal rights to jointly-created career assets that emanated from the male financial womb, but arguing against men's equal rights to jointly-created children that emanated from the woman's child-bearing womb.
Warren Farrell
#48. Everyone is tearing each other apart in the name of their personal god. And the irony is, by definition, they're probably worshiping the same god.
Ridley Scott
#49. I was as real to him as he was to me and it struck me just then that I meant something to him. In whatever capacity he was able, I meant something. The irony of that epiphany made my gut twist.
C.J. Roberts
#50. It is hard to miss the irony in the fact that the very same week that Republicans were publicly heralding Congressman Paul Ryan's plan to inject market forces into the American health care system, they were crafting a budget deal to strip them from the health reform law.
Ron Wyden
#51. In acting, you have a writer, a director, a character - you're working through being another person - and the irony I always tell people is when I acted early on as a teenager, it actually kept me out of trouble.
Juliette Lewis
#52. We often assume that the question, "How can I be happy?" can be successfully answered without reference to the love of God and our neighbors. And the irony is that if our biggest question is our own happiness, we can never know the God in whom we find our ultimate joy and rest.
Michael S. Horton
#53. My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch.
Jack Nicholson
#54. We are each unique ... which is why it is so wrong to be lumped together by stereotypes or viewed with narrowed expectations based on skin color or chromosomes. The irony is that dealing with this prejudice becomes our shared experience.
Sheryl Sandberg
#55. That is where the irony of the film comes off, in terms of the language it employs - where he tries desperately to be a 'TV Dad,' to give advice and it's so pat it becomes ridiculous.
Atom Egoyan
#56. 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.
Isaac Marion
#57. The irony of instant gratification is that it leaves such lasting scars.
Heather King
#58. Worrying about what other people think is a jail of our own creation, and the irony of it is those people are in the same jail with us.
Srinivas Rao
#59. The irony was not lost on any of us that despite the theme there was a robot on the throne.
Kathryn Davis
#60. But the irony is that unless God's in the center of it, you can get singed pretty badly.
Julie Lessman
#61. The irony of loneliness is that everybody shares it from time to time.
Lil B
#63. The best antidote for crime is justice. The irony we often fail to appreciate is that the more justice people enjoy, the fewer crimes they commit. Crime is the natural offspring of an unjust society.
Gerry Spence
#64. Soon, she and the rest of them would be ironic much of the time, unable to answer an innocent question without giving their words a snide little adjustment. Fairly soon after that, the snideness would soften, the irony would be mixed in with seriousness, and the years would shorten and fly.
Meg Wolitzer
#65. Thomas stood there, sorting through his options. The irony wasn't lost on him. He'd escaped WICKED only to be held at gunpoint by an average everyday city worker.
James Dashner
#66. The irony of the Supreme Court hearing on these cases last week and of the outright hostility that the Court has displayed against religion in recent years is that above the head of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court is a concrete display of the Ten Commandments.
Cliff Stearns
#67. The irony of life is that the child begins to become an adult when he starts to live alone and he loses the security provided by those who love him and are always close to him.
Mark Curl
#68. Because we can engineer genetics, because we can telecast real lives-of course we must, right? But are these good things to do? The irony is, the people who will finally answer that question will be the very ones produced by the process.
Roger Ebert
#69. Suppose we took a thousand negatives ...
combining the elegances, the squalor, the curiosities, the monuments, the sad faces, the triumphant faces, the power, the irony, the strength, the decay, the past, the present, the future of a city - that would be my favorite picture.
Berenice Abbott
#70. The irony here is this administration is spending more money on climate change research and development than any administration in all the rest of the industrialized world combined.
Christine Todd Whitman
#71. It's important for a man to know his limitations, and my limitations started at moving to Peckham and hanging around with yardies, postcode wannabes and those weird, skinny white kids who don't get the irony in Eminem.
Ben Aaronovitch
#72. In golf your strengths and weaknesses will always be there. If you could improve your weaknesses, you would improve your game. The irony is that people prefer to practice their strengths.
Harvey Penick
#73. And she couldn't help but smile at the irony of the fact that the baddest boy in school could somehow always make her feel like the world was good.
Priscilla Glenn
#74. The irony of the matter is that the future generations do not have a vote. In effect, we hold their proxy.
Charles J. Hitch
#75. Every psychiatrist hated the irony that the best-paying specialty was cosmetic surgery, as if you could fix your psyche by changing your face.
Lisa Scottoline
#76. The irony is that science has served only to show how small human knowledge is.
Masanobu Fukuoka
#77. The irony of being ignored by someone is that it means you have been noticed by that person first. Take heart you were seen, and yes they still hate you. However, they will never forget you and will always look over their shoulder to see if your coming their way.
Shannon L. Alder
#78. We always protect our heads, our faces,' he commented as he followed a half-step behind and to her left. It's pure instinct; to shield the eyes. The irony is that the blind have no eyes to protect, and suffer most of their injuries on their legs. But instinct can be blind, too.
Melinda Cross
#79. The irony of war," he said. "It has always been this way. We are taught to think that the battle lines separate the good from the bad, but the truth, as you are beginning to understand, is less comfortable.
Jonathan Renshaw
#80. Erik wondered if they saw the irony of such a tiny complex expecting to find the cure from the very lives they minimized in comparison to the whole. If such small, little lives mattered not, how could they believe anything they did would matter?
Ellie Lieberman
#81. I don't think readers of Mann have overlooked the fact that he was a great ironist, but they have tended to see the irony in particular parts of the novella, and to miss it in others.
Philip Kitcher
#82. And what's the irony?
...
In the end... we call the enemy friends... the fake people again friends... should I continue here with the words?
Deyth Banger
#83. Nick smiled. "I kind of like the irony."
"Jesus, you are such a nerd." Gabriel flung the lighter at him.
"Stop using big words."
"Five letters is a big word?
Brigid Kemmerer
#84. Phones with numerical keypads worked best for dialing phone calls. Incidentally, phone calls tend to be the primary function of a phone. 'Smartphones' completely ignore these basic facts, resulting in some of the least intelligent devices I've seen yet. Oh the irony.
Ashly Lorenzana
#85. The irony of Christianity is that believers get so angry, and self righteous toward other Christians who sin differently than they do. Christianity is like one large fraternity where brother and sisterhood is tested by hazing.
Shannon L. Alder
#86. I recognized it immediately the first time it happened - the cackle of the crone. It is the sound of a woman who is caught inside the mystery of the universe, in the irony of the angst, in the place ego abhors. Bliss.
Toni Bentley
#87. The thing that I come across is that people think that I might actually be super aggressive, want-to-fight type in real life. The irony is that that's just not true, at all.
Zoe Bell
#88. In my film "Benny's Video," I depicted violence but I failed to say all that I had to say, so I wanted to continue the dialog and that's why I did "Funny Games." The irony is that after I shot "Funny Games," but it hadn't been released at all anywhere.
Michael Haneke
#89. But oh, the irony of meeting about green initiatives over tiny disposable water bottles.
Tracy Ewens
#90. Many of us are speeding up and skipping over, missing the important as we scan for the urgent. The irony is that in our anxiety toward not missing out, we are losing the most meaningful moments of life.
Jeff Goins
#91. The irony is, the advertising industry knows everyone hates what they produce. This is why they keep looking for new ways to force people to stay tuned.
Simon Sinek
#92. The irony of that is, what makes it kind of ironic, is when you do become successful as a professional athlete in particular, a lot of the young children who are emulating these stars do have a different perspective.
Frank Shorter
#93. I spoke of the irony of the Taliban wanting female teachers and doctors for women yet not letting girls go to school to qualify for these jobs
Malala Yousafzai
#94. Poverty was nature surviving in society; that the limitedness of food and the unlimitedness of men had come to an issue just when the promise of boundless increase of wealth burst in upon us made the irony only the more bitter.
Karl Polanyi
#95. If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
W. Somerset Maugham
#96. Here's the irony of this moment on Smackdown: Jimmy crack corn and I DO care.
Todd Grisham
#97. It is the irony of this story that the one who scared me witless to start with was the very same who brought me peace, purpose, I dare say even wholeness.
Yann Martel
#98. There is a stereotype that vegans talk about being vegan all the time. The irony is, once people find out I'm vegan, I quickly become their confessor, counselor, and sounding board.
Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
#99. The irony is that you can't use real rain to make movies.
Greg Kinnear
#100. Only Jack has remarked on the irony that America is going to war against a white supremacist enemy with a segregated American army.
Michael Grant
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