Irony Quotes

At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed. Frederick Douglass
Time Argument Like Irony Convincing Needed
Perhaps the saddest irony of depression is that suicide happens when the patient gets a little better and can again function sufficiently. Dick Cavett
Depression Better Patient Suicide Saddest Perhaps Irony Gets Happens Again Little Function Sufficiently
The exact meaning of irony is so narrow that the word is hardly worth using; in its broad, current definition, it's a euphemism for sarcasm. 'I'm not being sarcastic; I'm being ironic.' No, you're not. You're evading the responsibility for being sarcastic. Richard Corliss
You Worth Word Responsibility Broad Definition Exact Narrow Ironic Irony Current Being Meaning Meaning Of Euphemism Sarcasm Sarcastic Using Hardly
If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too. W. Somerset Maugham
Freedom Money Will Values Lose Nation Too More Comfort Than Irony Anything
In the end, there is no absence of irony: the integrity of what is sacred to Native Americans will be determined by the government that has been responsible for doing everything in its power to destroy Native American cultures. Winona LaDuke
Government Integrity Will Power Everything Destroy Has-Been Responsible Determined Absence Sacred Doing Been Cultures End American Irony Native Native American Native Americans In The End
I have survivor skills. Some of that is superficial - what I present to people outwardly - but what makes people resilient is the ability to find humour and irony in situations that would otherwise overpower you. Amy Tan
You People Otherwise Humour Would Find Ability Some Superficial Makes Survivor Irony Situations Skills Present Resilient
People in the U.K. share my bemusement with the United States that America doesn't share with itself. They have a sense of irony, which America doesn't have, seeing as it's being run by fundamentalists who take things literally. Bill Hicks
People Sense States Run Seeing Take Share Itself America Irony Being Literally Which Who United United States Things Fundamentalists
I don't like irony and sarcasm very much. But I do like it when you think someone is telling you a joke, and then you discover it's serious. Jens Lekman
You Joke Think Telling Someone Like Discover Very Irony Then Much Sarcasm Serious
The irony is that the people we tend to vote for actually look down on voters and voting. That's just idiotic, right? That's like a snake eating its own tail! A wolf in a trap gnawing off its own head to escape! Steven Weber
Vote People Voting Wolf Snake Own Down Eating Tend Tail Head Like Voters Look Idiotic Gnawing Off Escape Irony Just Trap Actually Right
The main business of a lawyer is to take the romance, the mystery, the irony, the ambiguity out of everything he touches. Antonin Scalia
Business Lawyer Everything Out Mystery Take Main He Ambiguity Irony Romance
Humor is everywhere in that there's irony in just about anything a human does. Bill Nye
Humor Everywhere About Does Irony Human Just Anything
Irony, I feel, is a very high form of morality. Jean Stafford
High Morality Feel Very Irony Form
Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge. Mason Cooley
Truth Simple Challenge Every Simple Truth Irony Regards
Neither irony or sarcasm is argument. Samuel Butler
Argument Neither Irony Sarcasm
In a world where irony reigns, where you have to separate, protect and laugh at anything that is honest or has an emotional charge, I bet for catharsis. I like to invest emotionally in things. And catharsis, when it touches the emotional vein, can open the doors of even those who protect themselves. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
You World Doors Those Laugh Charge Bet Invest Emotional Open Emotionally Vein Like Protect Catharsis Irony The Doors Where Anything Themselves Separate Who Even Reigns Things Honest
Americans are not renowned for having a sense of irony. Andrew Dominik
Sense Having Renowned American Irony
Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not. Barbara Kruger
Culture Our Know Irony Listen Whether Saturated
The irony is that the more we fight age, the more it shows. Paint on a 50-year-old face brings to mind a Gilbert and Sullivan comic figure. Smooth the cheeks, and suddenly the ear lobes and hands look out of place. Do we run around in October, painting the gold leaves green? Karen DeCrow
Age Fight Mind Face Painting Sullivan Out Run Gilbert More Look Cheeks Around Comic Smooth Leaves October Green Hands Irony Gold Place Figure Paint Shows Suddenly Ear Brings
Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Chaos Clear Abundant Irony Infinitely Eternal Agility Consciousness
You hear a lot of rap songs about spending money. I thought, wouldn't it be funny to make a song about saving money because it's ironic, but beyond irony, I genuinely have pride in saving money. Lil Dicky
Funny You Song Money Pride Thought Saving Saving Money Spending Spending Money Rap About Songs Beyond Make Because Genuinely Hear Lot Ironic Irony
For years, young adults have adopted extremely liberal world views in their attempts to be different, ultimately failing to see the irony that they've all become the same. Steven Crowder
World Become Young Liberal Extremely Be Different See Adopted Adult Attempts Failing Years Ultimately Irony Same Young Adults Different Views
It would no doubt be very sentimental to argue - but I would argue it nevertheless - that the peculiar combination of joy and sadness in bell music - both of clock chimes, and of change-ringing - is very typical of England. It is of a piece with the irony in which English people habitually address one another. A. N. Wilson
Music People Joy Sadness Doubt Typical Address Would No Doubt Both Argue Combination Nevertheless Piece Another Clock Very Irony Which Sentimental England English English People Bell Peculiar
I want to see Brian Williams with no irony wearing a mustache. Adam McKay
Williams Mustache See Wearing Irony Want Brian
The irony is of course that my career has lasted a whole lot longer than some of the people I've parodied over the years. Al Yankovic
People Lasted Some Longer Over Course Years Lot Than Irony Whole Career
To me the biggest irony of this lifetime that I'm living is that for someone who thrives in the public eye in the creative ways that I do, I actually don't enjoy being in the public eye. Alanis Morissette
Me Creative Thrive Enjoy Living Ways Eye Someone Lifetime Irony Being Biggest Public Public Eye Who Creative Ways Actually
Irony is a great tool to deal with things. It's an intellectualization, a way to go above things, which can work. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Work Great Tool Way Above Deal Go Irony Which Things
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