Irony Quotes

Everyone Deserves An Equal Footing.

~ R.e. Conary

For 'wellness', naturally is no cause of complaint--people relish it, they enjoy it, they are at the furthest pole from complaint. People complain of feeling ill--not well. Unless, as George Eliot does, they have some intimation of 'wrongness' or danger, either through knowledge or association, or the very excess of excess. Thus, though a patient will scarcely complain of being 'very well', they may become suspicious if they feel 'too well'.

~ Oliver Sacks

You say ‘cure.’ I hear ‘you’re not human enough.

~ John Scalzi

I didn't think that Herefordshire Social Services would be best pleased about me dumping a poorly socialised pre-teen with mind control powers on them.

~ Ben Aaronovitch

There are fascinating possibilities in this situation. I'd get it down on paper if I were you.

~ Joe Orton

You don't buy poetry. (Neither do I.)Why?You cannot afford it? Bosh! You spendEditions de luxe on a thirsty friend.You can buy any one of the poetry bunchFor the price you pay for a business lunch. Don't you suppose that a hungry head,Like an empty stomach, ought to be fed?Looking into myself, I find this true, So I hardly can figure it false in you.

~ Edmund Vance Cooke

My mother had not acted for ten years. Not since a reviewer wrote that her portrayal of Lady Macbeth put him in mind of an exasperated society hostess burdened with unmannerly guests who had lost the new tennis balls, left the bathrooms in a mess, and finished the gin.

~ Victoria Clayton

How many times do I have to tell you? We are not gangsters!

~ Peter Cimino

There is nothing worse then being surrounded by a bunch of people telling you to do what is right, when they can't define that definition, without a lot of hatred and judgment behind it.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Either help or give up. Right now devil's advocate is just another name for asshole.

~ James S.a. Corey

Metaphysics in philosophy is, of course, supposed to characterize what is real - literally real. The irony is that such a conception of the real depends upon unconscious metaphors.

~ George Lakoff

It is so hard to talk with John about my case, because he is so wise, and because he loves me so.

~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman

This place is packed with beautiful hipsters. While the Coney Island bombast radiated sincerity, everything here seems more ironic. When someone in the crowd ironically chants, 'USA!' someone else ironically chants back, 'Mother Russia.

~ Jon Ronson

The more people I am with, Dorrigo thought, the more alone I feel.

~ Richard Flanagan

Postmodern irony and cynicism's become an end in itself, a measure of hip sophistication and literary savvy. Few artists dare to try to talk about ways of working toward redeeming what's wrong, because they'll look sentimental and naive to all the weary ironists. Irony's gone from liberating to enslaving. [.] The postmodern founders' patricidal work was great, but patricide produces orphans, and no amount of revelry can make up for the fact that writers my age have been literary orphans throughout our formative years.

~ David Foster Wallace

... the novel, arguably the author's best, had a disquieting power, like a sleeping crocodile.

~ Roberto Bolaño

Marcus and Ellie exchanged a worried look and examined the bag again. Sure enough, the gold was gone.

~ Justin Swapp

It has been said that civilization is the process of freeing human beings from each other, and that is true. But it takes people to free each other, because people cannot be freed from each other except by each other. The irony of this cannot be overstated.

~ Robert Peate

I think you'll find that I'm qualified to deal with practically everything, if I choose. That last part, of course, is essential. --Devyn DuChien

~ Chris Pavesic

Regretfully, but I have to admit that A. Einstein was right. -''Who?''. Oh, there was such a guy...

~ Alexander Zalan

Sixty years of virginity tried in vain to dam the waters of instinct as they burst through the granite of good intentions,the rock of irreproachablee conduct.

~ René Crevel

Frankly speaking, I'm not afraid of death. I don't endeavour to avert its advent. But I don't want to be a witness of it.

~ Alexander Zalan

I got this to say. You're acting like a crowd of kids.

~ William Golding

Pssthe called.The Cyclops lowered his hammer. He turned towards Zeus, but his one big eye had been staring into the flames so long that he couldn't see who was talking.I am not PsstThe Cyclops said I am BrontesOh boy, Zeus thought. This may take a while

~ Rick Riordan

Sometimes, to fix something, you need to completely ruin something else

~ Evan Gans

I wish I hadn't cried so much! said Alice, as she swam about, trying to find her way out. I shall be punished for it now, I suppose, by being drowned in my own tears! That will be a queer thing, to be sure! However, everything is queer today.

~ Lewis Carroll

The cave floor rumbled. A large stone emerged from the dirt-a smooth, oval rock exactly the same size and weight as a baby god... She wrapped the stone in swaddling clothes and gave the real baby Zeus to the nymphs to take care of... She marched right up to King Cannibal and shouted, This is the best baby yet! A fine little boy named, uh, Rocky!

~ Rick Riordan

I hardly think that any Socialist, nowadays, would seriously propose that an inspector should call every morning at each house to see that each citizen rose up and did manual labour for eight hours.

~ Oscar Wilde

I preyed on this sort of thing, discontentment, a clash of passions among the rivals, and the zealots. Open sores opened secrets. That’s how I roll.” Jackson Guild, The Trinity Conspiracy, Betrayal at Black Mesa

~ Jeff Shear

She trailed her fingers along the book spines as she wandered around the room. “My father thinks reading is a waste of time.” Hunter thought her father was a waste of space.

~ Larissa Ione

Papa said that the parish priest in Abba was not spiritual enough. That was the problem with our people, Papa told us, our priorities were wrong; we cared too much about huge church buildings and mighty statues. You would never see white people doing that.

~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I actually feel quite self-indulgent at the moment, telling you all about me, me, me.(...) On the other hand, you're a human -you should understand self obsession.

~ Markus Zusak

Political convictions then were of the utmost importance, so intensely felt that it was difficult even for well-balanced and temperate men to think of the opposition party without bitterness. To the rank and file of the Federalists, the Democrats seemed a vulgar, ignorant mob at best, at worst a group of knaves and blockheads. To the Democrats, the Federalists appeared abandoned traitors fawning at the feet of the British government, a blindly selfish aristocracy who deserved little better treatment than the French nobility had received a few years before during the Reign of Terror.

~ William Edward Buckley

The irony was not lost on any of us that despite the theme there was a robot on the throne.

~ Kathryn Davis

We can get you a throne with snakes. I’ll stand next to you and roar at anybody who fails to grovel. Fear Kate Daniels. She is a mighty and terrible ruler. Grendel can anoint the petitioners with his vomit. It’ll be great . . .

~ Ilona Andrews

Life is full of little ironies, but it's also pockmarked with some the size of that big rock in Australia.

~ Rick Yancey

Her beauty was a weapon. A loaded gun, with the barrel pointed at her own head.

~ Khaled Hosseini

When you raise the most valid of points, you will be grazed by the most hollow of souls, and the most vacant of personages.

~ Justin K. Mcfarlane Beau

Curley's wife lay with a half-covering of yellow hay. And the meanness and the plannings and the discontent and the ache for attention were all gone from her face. She was pretty and simple, and her face was sweet and young. Now her rouged cheeks and reddened lips made her seem alive and sleeping very lightly. The curls, tiny little sausages, were spread on the hay behind her head and her lips were parted

~ John Steinbeck

Diamond is the hardest substance, but the Irony, it is also brittle.

~ Pushkar Saraf