Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charlie Chaplin

I suppose that's one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.

Catherynne M. Valente

You humans, you know, whoever built you sewed irony into your sinews.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

History, in the end, becomes a form of irony.

Jamie Zawinski

The universe tends toward maximum irony. Don't push it.

Diane Ackerman

Part of the irony of environmentalism is questing for solutions when you know you're part of the problem.

We knew 3-point shooting was their game. There's a lot of irony in it in that we go on the same philosophy.

Is there some irony here? Probably. But sometimes in order to enact real reform, interesting alliances have to be made.

Czeslaw Milosz

Irony is the glory of slaves.

Ann Beattie

Italics provide a wonderful advantage: you see, right away, that the words are in a rush. When something exists at a slant, you can't help but consider irony.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Irony: Don't let yourself be controlled by it, especially during uncreative moments.

Neil Diamond

Being lost is worth the being found.

Frederick Douglass

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

H. P. Lovecraft

From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent.

Masanobu Fukuoka

The irony is that science has served only to show how small human knowledge is.

Miuccia Prada

I like the irony in my work.

Lily Allen

There's a certain amount of what I wear that I wear for irony.

In a weird way, this tragedy will make it a magnet for opportunity seekers. It's the irony of tragedies.

The irony was not lost on me, and it better not be lost on LSU.

Robert Newman

The irony is in many places the railroads are laying track where they removed it over the past two decades.

John Hurt

Life is full of ironies and paradoxes.

Haruki Murakami

[But] we accept irony through a device called metaphor. And through that we grow and become deeper human beings.

James Patterson

guess they forgot to program us with any respect for authority." "well, I have a highly developed sense of irony.

Philip Levine

The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of probably my best poetry.

Laurell K. Hamilton

I know the universe has a sense of irony, and sometimes you get reminded just how sadistic that can be.