Irony Quotes

It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel. -Anatole France, novelist, essayist, Nobel laureate (1844-1924)

~ Anatole France

An independent newspaper? It is a newspaper that looks nothing like a newspaper.

~ Ljupka Cvetanova

Help yourself with the state! It's on democracy!

~ Ljupka Cvetanova

What tale do you like best to hear?' 'Oh, I have not much choice! They generally run on the same theme - courtship; and promise to end in the same catastrophe - marriage.

~ Charlotte Brontë

Men never forget true love. They always remember all the women they couldn't have.

~ Ljupka Cvetanova

Men weigh love with hands.

~ Ljupka Cvetanova

She walks in beauty.

~ Ron Rash

The beauty and mystery of this world only emerges through affection, attention, interest and compassion . . . open your eyes wide and actually see this world by attending to its colors, details and irony.

~ Orhan Pamuk

Tremendous beauty and tremendous ugliness puts you on the outside of things.

~ Peter Bogdanovich

It is a tragic and agonizing irony that instructions once delivered for the purpose of avoiding needless offense are now invoked in ways that needlessly offend, that words once meant to help draw people to the gospel now repel them.

~ Rachel Held Evans

Irony: When those who call others a 'threat to Christianity' reject the crucial tenets of their own faith themselves.

~ Christina Engela

It would be dreadfullyironic, I mused, if once I earned a soul, I forgot everything about being fey, including all my memories of her. That sort of ending seemedappropriately tragic; the smitten fey creature becomes human but forgets why he wanted to in the first place. Old fairy tales loved that sort of irony.

~ Julie Kagawa

What has our culture lost in 1980 that the avant-garde had in 1890? Ebullience, idealism, confidence, the belief that there was plenty of territory to explore, and above all the sense that art, in the most disinterested and noble way, could find the necessary metaphors by which a radically changing culture could be explained to its inhabitants.

~ Robert Hughes

A painting is worth a thousand confused art-gallery visitors.

~ Ljupka Cvetanova

Sarcasm is waster on the young.

~ Bert Mccoy

I always think it's funny when Indians celebrate Thanksgiving. I mean, sure, the Indians and Pilgrims were best friends during the first Thanksgiving, but a few years later, the Pilgrims were shooting Indians.So I'm never quite sure why we eat turkey like everybody else.

~ Sherman Alexie

I cannot say much for this Monarch's Sense--Nor would I if I could, for he was a Lancastrian. I suppose you know all about the Wars between him and the Duke of York who was on the right side; if you do not, you had better read some other History, for I shall not be very difuse in this, meaning by it only to vent my spleen against, and show my Hatred to all those people whose parties or principles do not suit with mine, and not to give information.

~ Jane Austen

A constant factor in human history is the need to protect oneself. Another factor is the urge to attack someone else.

~ Stan Beckensall

A good lover? One percent talent and ninety nine percent hard work.

~ Ljupka Cvetanova

No one plows the field just by thinking about it.

~ Ljupka Cvetanova

But the Egotist is stuck somewhere between his hidden triad of pride, fear, and insecurity; he is forever fighting to prove himself, instigating battles the Humbleman has unwittingly conquered, already sealed some time ago. Yes, the day he finally accepts face-to-face such an irony as humility - the irony that humility is indeed the mother of giants, that great men, having life so large, as needed, can afford to appear small - the world will then know peace.

~ Criss Jami

The highest goodness is like water.Water is beneficial to all things but not contend. It stays in places which others despise. Therefore it is near Tao. The weakest things in the world can overmatch the strongest things in the world. Nothing in the world can be compared to water for its weak and yielding nature; yet in attacking the hard and strong nothing proves better than water. For there is no alternative to it. The weak can overcome and the yielding can overcame the hard. This all the world knows but does not practice. This again is the practice of ‘wu-wel’ and nonviolence. Water may be weak, pliable, fluid, but its action is not one of running away from an obstacle. On the contrary, it gives at the point of resistance, envelopes the object and passes beyond it. Ultimately it will wear down the hardest rock. Water is a more telling symbol than land… crossing the river to get to the other side is, again, attaining the state of enlightenment.

~ J.c. Cooper

I don't want to die. I deserve, certainly, the most extreme punishment society has, and I think society deserves to be protected from me and from others like me. That's the irony. What I'm talking about is going beyond retribution because there is no way in the world that killing me is going to restore those beautiful children to their parents and correct and soothe the pain.

~ James C. Dobson

Just married! A bright past is ahead of them!

~ Ljupka Cvetanova

She said yes. If only she didn't talk so much!

~ Ljupka Cvetanova

To agree to a marriage is to consent to a mutual act of transformation, to promise to ensure that the versions of yourselves that you will become will remain in harmony, though you yourselves can never stay the same.

~ Dexter Palmer

Behind every successful woman is a hungry man.

~ Ljupka Cvetanova

The apparently bottomless gulf between what we say we want and why we do want, between what we officially admire and secretly desire, between, in the largest sense, the people we marry and the people we love.

~ Joan Didion

And, conversely, she went on to herself, sneering at the Grand Duke's palace, poverty is wasted on the poor, who never know how to make the best of things, are only the rich without money, are just as useless at looking after themselves, can't handle their cash just like the rich can't, always squandering it on bright, pretty, useless things in just the same way.

~ Angela Carter

Irony, we want our handwriting to look like typed fonts, and our computer fonts to look like handwritten text.

~ Vikrmn

Corporate irony, you will seen the best of machines and worst of people ever.

~ Vikrmn

Irony, we want to dance like robots and want robots to dance like us.

~ Vikrmn

Fathers are ironic, they want democracy in their country but dictatorship in their home.

~ Amit Kalantri

Irony of the world is that it wants to simplify the complexity and complicate the simplicity.

~ Vikrmn

I know the power of speech. I don't talk much.

~ Ljupka Cvetanova

Big people never scare me. I am a little man. I can easily hide.

~ Ljupka Cvetanova

I give away examples!

~ Ljupka Cvetanova

I watched you undress. Shame on you!

~ Ljupka Cvetanova

Good advice is usually given by someone who was once a bad example.

~ Ljupka Cvetanova

Who am I to judge me?

~ Ljupka Cvetanova