Quotes of: Ironies Keyword

The worst thing about irony for me is that it attenuates emotion.

David Foster Wallace

Scary discovery of the day: Most people who RT @yokoono's tweets do so without irony.

James Taranto

Perhaps the saddest irony of depression is that suicide happens when the patient gets a little better and can again function sufficiently.

Dick Cavett

Well, certainly one of the ironies of the success of affirmative action is that the middle class within the black community no longer lives within 'black community' by and large.

Henry Louis Gates

I love the irony. I'm perceived as being really young and yet I have the clinical condition of an old man.

Michael J. Fox

I love the French for their sarcasm, their irony. I love them for their bad moods.

Marjane Satrapi

Irony of life – GOD will always make you do things which you never want to.

Aman Jassal

Irony of "importance": Those who deserve, don't get it; Those who don't, get it in abundance by you.

Shivam Singh

Royal Young's writing is that rare blend of irony and beauty.

Everything Beautiful Began After

It's an irony of our times that men seeking peace must make war.

Emperor of Thorns

Irony - The modern mode: either the devil’s mark or the snorkel of sanity.

Flaubert's Parrot

Irony serves as an alibi for a fetish.

The Limits of Narrative: Essays on Baudelaire, Flaubert, Rimbaud and Mallarme

The irony of life: Realizing a lifetime is barely long enough to figure out how it should have been lived.

Richelle E. Goodrich

There's something about Vonnegut's deadpan irony that I really like. And I like Borges' puzzle structure.

Ruth Ozeki

Of all America’s natural resources, its richest is an inexhaustible vein of irony.

Markham Shaw Pyle

That is where the irony of the film comes off, in terms of the language it employs - where he tries desperately to be a 'TV Dad,' to give advice and it's so pat it becomes ridiculous.

Atom Egoyan

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

I think the French have a romantic cliche that Englishmen have great style, great music, irony and sense of humour. Well, sometimes cliches are true.

Josephine de La Baume

There's some irony in playing a journalist after some of the stuff that has been written about me, but it's a great profession, particularly investigative journalism.

James Nesbitt

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

Charlie Chaplin

The irony is that 'looking down on everybody else' is a violation of the law of love, which, according to Jesus, is the absolute essence of righteousness.

John Ortberg