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Quotes About Irony

consistency, a virtue I have always deplored.
~ John Julius Norwich
Perhaps the experience can give my writing a new dimension. Being actively engaged in the system which I criticize will be an interesting irony in itself.
~ John Kennedy Toole
Oh, my God! Ignatius mumbled, looking at the austere little calling card. You can't really be named Dorian Greene. Yes, isn't that wild? Dorian asked languidly. If I told you my real name, you'd never speak to me again. It's so common I could die just thinking of it. I was born on a wheat farm in Nebraska. You can take it from there.
~ John Kennedy Toole
Miró agradecido la nuca de Myrna, la cola de caballo que golpeaba inocente sus rodillas. Gratamente. Qué irónico, pensó Ignatius. Y, tomando la cola de caballo con una de sus manazas, la apretó cálidamente contra su húmedo bigote.
~ John Kennedy Toole
Irony sucks, you know? Roger nodded. That it does. Safely confined to the pages of novels, it's an interesting rhetorical device; encountered loose in the real world, it's a beast with steel claws and mirrors for eyes.
~ Unknown
Somewhat ironically, Clarke later committed suicide as a result of a 'violent and hopeless passion for a very beautiful lady of a rank superior to his own'. To decide the method he tossed a coin: heads he would hang himself, tails he would drown. The coin landed on its side in a mud patch, so he shot himself.
~ John Lloyd
Bumper sticker: My kid beat the heck out of the student of the month.
~ Anonymous
She looks like a woman who has found it ridiculous to commit herself to a single emotional stance in anything, but must always ride high heavy irony.
~ Sylvia Plath
People have different ideas, emotional ideas, of what certain words mean, and they think of irony as something that's more associated with being cynical-it's kind of a put-down.
~ Jeff Koons
There's no more delicious irony on the face of the Earth than environmental protesters being led away in plastic handcuffs that have a biodegradability horizon line of, like, 40,000 years.
~ Dennis Miller
Travel at its truest is thus an ironic experience.
~ Paul Fussell
If being broke is a joke then you a funny ni....
~ Unknown
I wish the dollar store sold gas.
~ Unknown
Since I'm not depressed enough by being at work, I think I'll balance my checkbook so I'll be really ready to hit the bar after work.
~ Unknown
Its funny how; The one person you'd take a bullet for...Tends to always be the one behind the gun.
~ Unknown
Dear gym teacher, how the hell are you fat? Sincerely, you teach exercise for a living!
~ Unknown
It's ironic that the person who says I love you, hurts you the most.
~ Unknown
Isn't it ironic that women always want to hurt the loyal guys but keep around the jerks.
~ Unknown
Ironic how the person you'd take a bullet for sometimes ends up being the one behind the gun.
~ Unknown
The irony of course is that when we criticize someone, often we have the same imperfections ourselves.
~ Unknown
It's so ironic that it took so much time for people to realize your real value. They come knocking right when you have finally closed your door.
~ Unknown
It is life. It makes us laugh an hour, and it laughs at us another.
~ Ahmed Mayouf
Laugh at life, because life laughs at us each time we take it seriously.
~ Unknown
Life is full of ironies. The people who hurt you, hate you, despise you, look for faults in you now, are the ones who may need you later on.
~ Mufti Ismail Menk