Irony Quotes - Page 19

• At first, I thought 'this series is going to be all about death and desecration,' but instead became a more complex landscape of human relationships. I hope I put something of these feelings into the portraits that I made of the characters, which were landscapes in themselves. An irony in the subject of crystal meth is how beautifully it resembles the desert sky.

  Ralph Steadman

  Character, Sky, Feelings

  "The day when Bill Murray got festive and Belle & Sebastian went techno" by Sam Richards, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2014.

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• In the end, the Labour party could cease to represent labour. Stranger historic ironies have happened than that.

  Enoch Powell

  Party, Stranger, Historic

  The Sunday Telegraph, October 18, 1964.

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• It would be the irony of fate if my administration had to deal chiefly with foreign affairs.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Fate, Would Be, Administration

  Woodrow Wilson (1956). “The Wilson reader”

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• Cruel irony, the poor man tormented with hunger feeds those who plead his case.

  Albert Camus

  Men, Hunger, Poor

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• The green prehuman earth is the mystery we were chosen to solve, a guide to the birthplace of our spirit, but it is slipping away. The way back seems harder every year. If there is danger in the human trajectory, it is not so much in the survival of our own species as in the fulfillment of the ultimate irony of organic evolution: that in the instant of achieving self-understanding, through the mind of man, life has doomed its most beautiful creations. And thus humanity closes the door on its past.

  E. O. Wilson

  Beautiful, Men, Past

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• There is no paradox. There is only irony.

  Philip K. Jason

  Paradox

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• Between "just desserts" and "tragic irony" we are given quite a lot of scope for our particular talent. Generally speaking, things have gone about as far as they can possibly go when things have got about as bad as they reasonably get.

  Tom Stoppard

  Gone, Talent, Dessert

  "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead". Book by Tom Stoppard, www.goodreads.com. 1966.

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• Moral self-infatuation has its own corruptions, after all. With time, almost every other principle of the magazine acquired an ironic echo, a sort of cackling aftermath.

  Renata Adler

  Time, Echoes, Self

  Renata Adler (1999). “Gone: The Last Days of the New Yorker”

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• The irony of loneliness is that everybody shares it from time to time.

  Lil B

  Loneliness, Share

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• There has to be irony, both in design and in the objects. I see around me a professional disease of taking everything too seriously. One of my secrets is to joke all the time

  Achille Castiglioni

  Design, Secret, Disease

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• One of the bitterest ironies of life is that one truly appreciates a blessing only after having been deprived of it or imagining that.

  Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi

  Gratitude, Blessing, Appreciate

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• The irony about Charles II is not that he came to the throne because England needed a successor to Charles I, but because England needed a successor to Oliver Cromwell.

  Simon Schama

  History, England, Thrones

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• Here we have the great irony of modern nutrition: at a time when hundreds of millions of people do not have enough to eat, hundreds of millions more are eating too much and are overweight or obese.

  Marion Nestle

  People, Too Much, Nutrition

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• I do not think it is logical to try and outsmart the smartest people. Instead, my weapons are irony and paradox. The joy of life is partly in the strange and unexpected. It is in the constant exclamation 'Who would have thought it?'

  Hugh Jackman

  Thinking, People, Joy

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• Phones with numerical keypads worked best for dialing phone calls. Incidentally, phone calls tend to be the primary function of a phone. 'Smartphones' completely ignore these basic facts, resulting in some of the least intelligent devices I've seen yet. Oh the irony.

  Ashly Lorenzana

  Intelligent, Phones, Facts

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• You can't top that remark for hypocrisy or the setting for irony. It isn't the middle class who write $32,500 checks. Those who do expect something in return. They've been getting it.

  Jack Kelly

  Writing, Class, Hypocrisy

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• There are a million ways to make money in the markets. The irony is that they are all very difficult to find.

  Jack D. Schwager

  Way, Making Money, Difficult

  Jack D. Schwager (2012). “The New Market Wizards: Conversations with America's Top Traders”, p.7, John Wiley & Sons

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

  Masanobu Fukuoka

  Shows, Humans, Human Knowledge

  Masanobu Fukuoka (2010). “The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming”, p.29, New York Review of Books

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• Even now, the irony that so non-intellectual a man should choose to engage the Soviet Union on the battlefield of ideas has eluded most commentators and historians.

  Richard Perle

  War, Men, Ideas

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• That books, a commodity little changed since Caxton's day, should have turned out to be the trailblazers of retailing on the internet is one of the stranger cultural ironies of our time. If you've bought one thing on the net, the newest and most prodigiously high-tech communications system imaginable, then it is almost certain to be a book, the oldest and simplest.

  Bryan Appleyard

  Book, Communication, Should Have

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• The irony of Christmas is always upon the poor in heart; the mystery of the solstice is always upon the rest of us.

  John Cheever

  Heart, Mystery, Poor

  John Cheever (2010). “Falconer”, p.163, Vintage

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• A man can be called ruthless if he bombs a country to oblivion. A woman can be called ruthless if she puts you on hold.

  Gloria Steinem

  Country, Men, Bombs

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• From the moment we are born, the world tends to have a box already built for us to fit inside. Our umbilical cord never seems to be severed; we only find new needs to fill. If we disconnected and severed our attachments, would we shatter our confinements and expand beyond our shell? Would the world look different? Would we recognize ourselves? Are we the box that we are inside, and to be authentically 'un-contained' would we still be able to exist? This is the irony of containment. As long as we don't push on the walls of our surroundings, we may never know how strong we really are.

  Paige Bradley

  Strong, Wall, Attachment

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• It is one of the ironies of history that reformers so often misjudge the consequences of their reforms.

  John W. Gardner

  Reform, Reformers, Consequence

  Dr. John W. Gardner (2015). “Excellence: Can We Be Equal And Excellent Too?”, p.13, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• The surest sign of the estrangement of the opinions of two persons is when they both say something ironical to each other and neither of them feels the irony.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Two, Opinion, Feels

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.160, Courier Corporation

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