Irony Quotes

You know,' she begins, 'you fellas ought to be looking after each other.' Her comment makes me realise that through the lies, the greatest irony is that we are looking out for each other. It's just that in the end, we're letting her down. That's what injures us.

~ Markus Zusak

Food is an important part of a balanced diet.

~ Fran Lebowitz

Goose neck is a delicacy. You have to at least try it. In fancy restaurants people pay up to fifty dollars a plate for this stuff.' And at our house we were force-fed it for free. Just another irony of life.

~ Janette Rallison

These are the best things I've ever had in my mouth!

~ Mora Early

Irony is easier than hopeless silence but braver than flight.

~ Leslie Jamison

Words were his delight; Hers, a gay gracefulnessOf dancing and moving. But when to the place Of deep loving (Starlight at midnight)At last they came, Their full communion And consummation,Their complete sphere,Was stillness for her,Silence for him.

~ Theodore Spencer

The irony of informing nearly naked people in a wilderness setting about the story of naked Adam and Eve eating the fruit of knowledge and inventing the fashion industry due to a sudden need for clothing to hide their shame is not lost on Williams.

~ Sarah Vowell

The Bible appears to be the most revered book never read.

~ Timothy Beal

About two-thirds of Americans believe that the Bible answers all or most of the basic questions of life—and 28 percent of them admit that they rarely or never read it!

~ Timothy Beal

The bible is so simple you have to have someone else help you misunderstand it..

~ Harmon Okinyo

Voltaire expected that within fifty years of his lifetime there would not be one Bible in the world. His house is now a distribution centre for Bibles in many languages.

~ Corrie Ten Boom

The idea of reappropriation isn’t a new one. The process of turning negative words, symbols, or ideas into positive parts of our own identity – was used for social justice movements long before hipsters thought that being ironic was cool. Whether it is repurposing a racial epithet or taking on a stereotype for sociopolitical empowerment, it’s an important process that has been around for thousands of years and continues to change society today.

~ Simon S. Tam

So through a world of piety I made my way to Sebastian.

~ Evelyn Waugh

I was tired of this silly joking about my 'speaking countenance'. I could keep a secret as well as anyone. Poirot had always persisted in the humiliating belief that I am a transparent character and that anyone can read what is passing in my mind.

~ Agatha Christie

I'm starting to feel like a character from one of these books

~ Christina Tetreault

It is a truth widely recognized that tyranny stems from the consent of the governed as much as democracy does.

~ Eric Robert Morse

You know something is wrong when the government declares opening someone else’s mail is a felony but your internet activity is fair game for data collecting.

~ E.a. Bucchianeri

Don't worry, my little lump of rock. Everybody gets a chance to choose. Or else where would irony come from?

~ Catherynne M. Valente

But the people only talked about how ugly her face looked. No one even bothered to mention what a sweet, kindhearted girl she was. Now, don’t be amazed! That is just the nature of humans, to notice the one flaw among a person’s ten good qualities.

~ Janaki Sooriyarachchi

Pessimism is a funny thing, isn't it? Madison thought as she looked at Judith's furrowed face. I like a bit of pessimism as much as the next man, but when I'm bombarded with it I suddenly became an eternal optimist.

~ Melissa Kite

If heaven was hot and hell was chilly, tell me, why would you go to heaven?

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

It is odd that the Bible says, ‘God created man,’ whereas it is the other way round: man has created God. It is odd that the Bible says, ‘The body is mortal, the soul is immortal,’ whereas even here the contrary is true: the body (its matter) is eternal; the soul (the form of the body) is transitory.

~ Béla Bartók

They only asked for punishments that fitted their crimes. Not ones that came like cupboards with built-in bedrooms. Not ones you spent your whole life in, wandering through its maze of shelves.

~ Arundhati Roy

Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

They say a woman's loyalty only lasts as long as it takes her to hang up and dial again.

~ Kim Gatlin

Sometimes you need to do something bad to do something good.I guess that's the irony of life.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

Then you do not belong here. Death holds no sweetness in this house. We are not warriors, nor soldiers, nor swaggering bravos puffed up with pride. We do not kill to serve some lord, to fatten our purses, to stroke our vanity. We never give the gift to please ourselves. Nor do we choose the ones we kill. We are but servants of the God of Many Faces.Valar dohaeris. All men must serve.You know the words, but you are too proud to serve. A servant must be humble and obedient.I obey. I can be humbler than anyone.That made him chuckle. You will be the very goddess of humility, I am sure. But can you pay the price?What price?The price is you. The price is all you have and all you ever hope to have. We took your eyes and gave them back. Next we will take your ears, and you will walk in silence. You will give us your legs and crawl. You will be no one's daughter, no one's wife, no one's mother. Your name will be a lie, and the very face you wear will not be your own.

~ George R.r. Martin

Il me semble que je serais toujours bien la ou je ne suis pas.It seems to me that I will always be happy in the place where I am not.

~ Charles Baudelaire

...one of the roles of man is to shut his eyes and keep them shut to see if he can continue into the night of his old age the dream curtailed in the night of his youth.

~ Machado De Assis

For with dandies, a joke is the only way of making yourself respected.

~ Jules Barbey D'aurevilly

Chin up, and we'll drown a little slower.

~ Leanne Mechelle

We give up our power to the very people who took it away from us in the first place.

~ Patti Digh

So this was the Ashram's final joke on me? Once I had learned to accept my loud, chatty, social nature and fully embrace my inner Key Hostess - only then could I become The Quiet Girl in the Back of the Temple, after all?

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

A writer flirts with schizophrenia, nurtures synesthesia, and embraces obsessive-compulsive disorder. Your art feeds on you, your soul, and, yes, to a degree, your sanity. Writing novels worth reading will bugger up your mind, jeopardize your relationships, and distend your life. You have been warned.

~ David Mitchell

How bold we are. We shy from a flame that licks the tip of our finger for a fraction of a second, and from which we are allowed the luxury of escape. But most of humankind flaunt their disobedience in the face of an eternal fire that engulfs all, and from which there is no escape. Ever.

~ Laurence B. Brown

Your weaknesses may not seem overwhelming, but they will create the biggest problems you face.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

We always feel the brunt of the blow dealt to us, but hardly ever do we feel the impact we have on others. Why is that?

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Comparisons are like rigid fingers—eager to point at a subject but unwilling to grasp it.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

In passing, we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute.

~ Francis A. Schaeffer

Daniel Elkins. The man credited with hunting vampires to extinction, killed by vampires. Ironic way to go, but he wouldn't have it any other way. He told me on more than one occasion that he knew he'd go down bloody, and he was right.

~ David Reed