Irony Quotes

You can put anything into words, except your own life

~ Max Frisch

Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.

~ Jane Austen

I can’t help but think that if she was going to kill herself, she might as well have done it earlier. Perhaps when I was a toddler. Or better yet, an infant. It certainly would have made my life easier. I asked my uncle Hugh (who is not really my uncle, but he is married to the stepsister of my current mother’s brother’s wife and he lives quite closeand he’s a vicar) if I would be going to hell for such a thought. He said no, that frankly, it made a lot of sense to him. I do think I prefer his parish to my own.

~ Julia Quinn

I'd rather be partly great than entirely useless.

~ Neal Shusterman

It is bound to be a failure, every book is a failure, but I do know with some clarity what kind of book I want to write.

~ George Orwell

There's a large strain of irony in our human affairs... Interwoven with our affairs is this wonderful spirit of irony which prevents us from ever being utterly and irretrievably serious, from being unaware of the mysterious nature of our existence.

~ Malcolm Muggeridge

My father told me that it is only a mad man that keeps bushy hairs. I asked him, what about the great men with bushy hairs?. He replied, education had made them mad, so study to be wise and sane.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

I find it really fascinating that while in an attempt to look beautiful we tend to go for what's easily acceptable.But when it comes to portraits, it is only our facial flaws that make that picture worth its while, setting it apart.Isn't it amazing to find that beauty is something that makes us alike? While our flaws are the real contributors to our uniqueness.

~ Mansi Laus Deo

Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.

~ Mark Twain

The first thing they would do would be to open my mouth and extract the soggy ball of my handkerchief, and as they spread it out flat on the table beside my white remains, an orange stamp—a stamp belonging to the King—would flutter to the floor: It was like something right out of Agatha Christie.

~ Alan Bradley

If I wasn't a devil myself I'd give Me up to the Devil this very minute.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

My mouth was dry. Whispers carried on the wind as the maids around me bunched together in small groups, hysterical, morbid. I thought: who will clean the mess?

~ A.e. Croft

Here was the world-famous novelist with her penchant for detail; yet, in her observations of a prostitute with a customer, she had failed to come away with the most important detail of all. She could never identify the murderer; she could barely describe him. She'd made a point of not looking at him!

~ John Irving

In league with being graced by greatness, prepare to be greeted, by all that is beneath you.

~ Justin K. Mcfarlane Beau

Irony is Fate's most common figure of speech.

~ Trevanian

It would be the irony of fate if my administration had to deal chiefly with foreign affairs.

~ Woodrow Wilson

Truth is the irony of fate.

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From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent.

~ H.p. Lovecraft

Are we not all actors playing parts in another person's play?

~ Shannon L. Alder

There is no simple explanation for anything important any of us do, and the human tragedy, or the human irony, consists in the necessity of living with the consequences of actions performed under the pressure of compulsions so obscure we do not and cannot understand them.

~ Hugh Maclennan

He had been trying to measure the distance between the earth and God.

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

The Emperor, you see, protects... He protects mankind, through the Legions, through the Martial corps, through the war machines of the Mechanicum. He understands the dangers. The inconsistencies. He uses you, and all the instruments like you, to protect us from harm. To protect our physical bodies from murder and damage, to protect our minds from madness, to protect our souls... There are insane dangers in the cosmos, dangers that mankind is fundamentally unable to comprehend, let alone survive. So he protects us. There are truths out there that would drive us mad by one fleeting glimpse of them. So he chooses not to share them with us. That's why he made you... Remember, Garviel. The Emperor is our truth and out light. If we trust in him, he will protect.

~ Dan Abnett

I didn't know who tobelievebutone thing I doknow: when a man islivingmany claim relationshipsthat are hardlysoand after he dies, well,then it's everybody'sparty.

~ Charles Bukowski

Humor is hard to catch in a second language. Especially when you're as serious a young man as Giovanni. He said to me the other night, 'When you are ironic, I am always behind you. I am slower. It is like you are the lightning and I am the thunder.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

If I wanted to consume something that looks and tastes like dirt, I’d eat dirt,” I said, “at least dirt isn’t overpriced.~Beans~

~ Garrison Kelly

She came from the most worthless of classes - the rich, with a smattering of culture.

~ Virginia Woolf

i do not give a sh*t, the toilet miss me now

~ Mohlalefi J Motsima

What is a saint supposed to do, if not convert wolves?

~ Umberto Eco

If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.

~ Harlan Ellison

If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.

~ Harlan Ellison

In order to do the unthinkable, do not think about it.

~ J.r. Rim

It's ironic how those with the most loving arms are the ones who get the most hate.

~ Sara Deuidicibus

Have you ever noticed how good things go to those who hate?

~ Sol Luckman

That's the beautiful thing about innocence, even monsters have a pocketful of childhood memories with which to seek comfort with.

~ Dave Matthes

The irony of the human heart is that it’s tormented both by the presence and absence of it’s own soul’s counterpart.

~ Crystal Woods

Sometimes Caesar gets killed cos Brutus is an Honest Man.

~ Talees Rizvi

In a nutshell, I am not unaware of my failings. Neither am I a stranger to irony.

~ Mordecai Richler

One of life’s ironies is that the more honest and vulnerable you are, the more others try to discredit you as a fraud and a fake. Shut them up by not caring.

~ Dan Pearce

Irony is just honesty with the volume cranked up.

~ George Saunders

What a refreshing mind you have, young man. There really is nothing quite like total ignorance, is there?

~ Neil Gaiman