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Irony Quotes

From even the greatest of horrors, irony is seldom absent.

– H. P. Lovecraft

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive - funny quote

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

– Robert A. Heinlein

Job: A Comedy of Justice

I don’t have a constituency, and I’m not autobiographical in any way. I write these deeply moral books in a country which would prefer irony to anything with a moral tone.

– Jim Crace

It’s no small irony that the government inevitably and invariably ends up promoting precisely that which they would most like to repress.

– Jock Sturges

The irony of environmental opposition to the Keystone XL project is that stopping the pipeline to the U.S. will not stop production in the oil sands of Canada. Instead of coming to the United States, the oil will still be produced and shipped by rail or a pipeline similar to the Keystone XL to Canada’s Pacific Coast.

– John Hoeven

The unhappy irony is that, while ‘Glee’ is hitting the heights, school arts funding is being slashed across the country due to the steep recession and declining tax revenues.

– James Wolcott

Pictures artists staged their own images or copied or cut out others already in existence. The viewer took them in separately, in sometimes paradoxical waves: an original image, then the manipulations of it, then the places where image and idea intersected. This created a crucial perceptual glitch that irony and understanding filled.

– Jerry Saltz

Am I disappointed occasionally by the lack of irony in some movies? Yes.

– Isla Fisher

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

Irony became the head that bit its tail and then there is no way out.

– Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Cervantes is the most important Spanish writer. But he is not the most representative of the Spanish. His irony, his sense of humor – they are too subtle to seem Spanish.

– Antonio Munoz Molina

I’ve always gravitated towards those ultimate lines in songs, the line you grab on to. That line in ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit,’ ‘Here we are now/Entertain us’ – the irony, the antagonism; that’s always stuck with me.

– Corey Taylor

I want to see Brian Williams with no irony wearing a mustache.

– Adam McKay

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

Humor is everywhere in that there’s irony in just about anything a human does.

– Bill Nye

Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony.

– Charles Baudelaire

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

I always thought the biggest failing of Americans was their lack of irony. They are very serious there! Naturally, there are exceptions… the Jewish, Italian, and Irish humor of the East Coast.

– Colin Firth

Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.

– Agnes Repplier

The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates.

– David Foster Wallace

Irony is the hygiene of the mind.

– Elizabeth Bibesco

It could draw from a greater reservoir of freedom. The irony could develop an even greater ease.

– Elfriede Jelinek

At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.

– Frederick Douglass

I used to get so many letters from students about the ending of ‘Pro Femina.’ So I had a stamp made that said ‘irony, irony, irony’ to put on a postcard and mail it back.

– Carolyn Kizer

I’m most interested in finding the strangeness and irony in reality. That’s my forte.

– Mary Ellen Mark

The irony is that you can’t use real rain to make movies.

– Greg Kinnear

People use irony as a defense mechanism.

– David Byrne

I don’t embrace irony, but I do think it’s a pre-existing condition; we manage it as best we can.

– Fred Tomaselli

Irony is just honesty with the volume cranked up.

– George Saunders

We’re not big on irony in Jamaica, sarcasm and double-talk. We tend to say things plainly, sometimes to the point of boredom.

– Marlon James

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