Browse through our collection of quotes tagged with Irony.
How strange it was to think that he, who such a short time ago dared not believe in the happiness of her loving him, now felt unhappy because she loved him too much!
Leo Tolstoy
Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
Oscar Wilde
Those darling byegone times, Mr Carker,' said Cleopatra, 'with their delicious fortresses, and their dear old dungeons, and their delightful places of torture, and their romantic vengeances, and their picturesque assaults and sieges, and everything that makes life truly charming! How dreadfully we have degenerated!
Charles Dickens
People who didn't need people needed people around to know that they were the kind of people who didn't need people.
Terry Pratchett
Irony is wasted on the stupid
Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
Agnes Repplier
When one has no character, one HAS to apply a method. Here it did wonders incontrovertibly, and I am living on the site of one of the greatest crimes in human history.
Albert Camus
I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize.
Steven Wright
An appreciation for irony.
Christopher Hitchens
His wit and irony - particularly when he uses them to condemn superstition - are inimitable
Bertrand Russell
Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.
Mark Twain
How ya doin'?' I always think, What kind of a question is that?, and I always reply, 'A bit early to tell.
He had had much experience of physicians, and said 'the only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd druther not'.
Irony is jesting behind hidden gravity.
John Weiss
Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves.
Karl Kraus
Sometimes, the embers are better then the campfire. It's strange, but it's true.
Stephen King
Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do. He who does not understand irony and has no ear for its whispering lacks of what might called the absolute beginning of the personal life. He lacks what at moments is indispensable for the personal life, lacks both the regeneration and rejuvenation, the cleaning baptism of irony that redeems the soul from having its life in finitude though living boldly and energetically in finitude.
Soren Kierkegaard
What a refreshing mind you have, young man. There really is nothing quite like total ignorance, is there?
Neil Gaiman
God hides the fires of hell within paradise.
Paulo Coelho
An old man turned ninety-eightHe won the lottery and died the next dayIt's a black fly in your ChardonnayIt's a death row pardon two minutes too lateIt's a traffic jam when you're already lateIt's a no-smoking sign on your cigarette breakIt's like ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knifeIt's meeting the man of my dreamsAnd then meeting his beautiful wife.
Alanis Morissette, Song Ironic
