Quotes About Irony

In mockery of monumental stone.

The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed:

The blind man is laughing at the bald head.

Who the hell is afraid of a fridge but ties himself to a puma?

I have learned from my mistakes, and I am sure I can repeat them exactly

Ahhh. A man with a sharp wit. Someone ought to take it away from him before he cuts himself.

There is particularly bitter irony for the modern reader in Damian's citation of traditional laws that rigorously punish child sex abusers, sending them to monastic prisons for the rest of their lives for a single offense. In the Book of Gomorrah we hear the voice of a prophet speaking to us over the span of centuries, reminding us of vital truths we have abandoned, and calling us to repentance.

Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked.

He was absurd, but then who isn't.

There's an irony: the passionate defense of the Bible as a "history book" among the more conservative wings of Christianity, despite intentions, isn't really an act of submission to God; it is making God submit to us. In

There's an irony: the passionate defense of the Bible as a "history book" among the more conservative wings of Christianity, despite intentions, isn't really an act of submission to God; it is making God submit to us.

Ian chuckled. "You know what the world's greatest oxymoron is?" "Happily married," Sid said wearily.

And it is a terrible irony that our very liberalism allows such danger to flourish. There has to be a time when we say: No more. And thanks to Connexion, that time has now come. As Edmund Burke said—' 'The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing,' Yuri quoted.

Stupid people often say the smartest things.

To some, the temporal triumph of the Christian community in the world is a sign of God's favor and the essential righteousness of the Christian position. The irony of the matter, though, is that whenever the Christian community gains worldly power, it nearly always looses its capacity to be the critic of the power and influence it so readily brokers.

It will be like a man who flees from a lion, only to encounter a bear, or who enters his house and rests his hand against the wall, only to be bitten by a snake.