Irony Quotes - Page 21

• Irony is wasted on the stupid

  Oscar Wilde

  Stupid

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• It's one of the ironies of mountaineering,' said Young, 'that grown men are happy to spend months preparing for a climb, weeks rehearsing and honing their skills, and at least a day attempting to reach the summit. And then, having achieved their goal, they spend just a few moments enjoying the experience, along with one or two equally certifiable companions who have little in common other than wanting to do it all again, but a little higher.

  Jeffrey Archer

  Men, Skills, Two

  Jeffrey Archer (2009). “Paths of Glory”, p.72, Pan Macmillan

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• If the Ego is hateful, Love your neighbor as yourself becomes a cruel irony.

  Paul Valery

  Love You, Ego, Hateful

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• Some of Mr. Gregory's poems have merely appeared in The New Yorker ; others are New Yorker poems: the inclusive topicality, the informed and casual smartness, the flat fashionable irony, meaningless because it proceeds from a frame of reference whose amorphous superiority is the most definite thing about it they are the trademark not simply of a magazine but of a class.

  Randall Jarrell

  Class, Magazines, Casual

  "Kipling, Auden & Co: Essays and Reviews 1935-1964". Book by Randall Jarrell, "Town Mouse, Country Mouse" (p. 70), 1980.

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• It turns out that President Obama has acid reflux. He had a sore throat, went to the hospital, and they diagnosed it as acid reflux. Talk about irony -- it's not covered by Obamacare.

  David Letterman

  Obamacare, President, Acid

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• Whenever you feel like feeling like a devil's advocate, Bible-thump. That, in a worldly world, is the great irony and satire of evangelism.

  Criss Jami

  Feelings, Devil, World

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.66, Criss Jami

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• In the modern Christian attempt to take a stand as Christ did, and maybe for others, win the approval of the world, the Christian will often think that it consists of targeting and demoralizing fellow Christians and only fellow Christians. It is one thing to stand against religious hypocrisy when one sees it, but it is another to go on snorting at anything or anyone who might seem 'too Christian' to us. The irony is that by doing this we are further advocating hypocrisy and 'half-hearted Christians'.

  Criss Jami

  Christian, Religious, Winning

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.12, Criss Jami

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• It is part of the irony of life that the strongest feelings of devoted gratitude of which human nature seems to be susceptible, are called forth in human beings towards those who, having the power entirely to crush their earthly existence, voluntarily refrain from using that power.

  John Stuart Mill

  Crush, Gratitude, Feelings

  John Stuart Mill (1970). “The Subjection of Women”, p.34, MIT Press

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• Let neither tear nor reproach besmirch this declaration of the mastery of God who, with magnificent irony, granted me both the gift of books and the night.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Book, Night, Tears

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• Life is that perfect fine line between ironies.

  Serj Tankian

  Perfect, Lines, Life Is

  "The Imperfect Harmony of Serj Tankian". Interview with Chris Carle, www.ign.com. September 27, 2010.

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• People use irony as a defense mechanism.

  David Byrne

  People, Defense, Use

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• Well, it'd certainly be fascinating if we discovered that gays were better at being married than heterosexuals are. Talk about irony.

  Gail Collins

  Gay, Married, Wells

  "Marriage Security and Insecurities". Interview with David Brooks, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. March 27, 2013.

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• Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.

  Quentin Crisp

  Health, Ironic, Disease

  "The Naked Civil Servant". Book by Quentin Crisp, Chapter 21, 1968.

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• You know, in my music career there was a moment where the irony was just so heavy. There were people in my audience that were the reason I developed neuroses. These people that tortured my life were using my art, my poetry, as fuel for them, to torture other people.

  Fred Durst

  Art, Careers, People

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• 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

  Italian, East, Serious

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Running, America, People

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

  Marjane Satrapi

  Sarcasm, Bad Mood, Mood

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• My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony.

  Maurice Sendak

  Witty, Father, Sides

  "Among the Wild Things" by Nat Hentoff, www.newyorker.com. January 22, 1966.

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• The irony is, the advertising industry knows everyone hates what they produce. This is why they keep looking for new ways to force people to stay tuned.

  Simon Sinek

  Hate, People, Way

  "I Hate You: A Tale About Advertising" by Simon Sinek, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 16, 2010.

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• Irony is the recourse of the weak-minded wimp, I think. I hate bands that deliver their songs with knowing smiles on their faces, so that if those songs fall flat they can say 'Ah well, we never really meant it anyway.' It's so dishonest.

  Robert Smith

  Song, Hate, Fall

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• The irony is that it was tougher to rent a car from Cerberus when it owned Alamo than to buy a semi-automatic. To rent a car, one had to provide ID, a drivers' license, and get insurance coverage. To buy a gun? Cash and carry, from the back of a station wagon at a gun show. No concerns about downstream liability or risk.

  Eliot Spitzer

  Gun, Car, Risk

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• I think of the irony that in our language [Nepali] the word for love can also mean deceit.

  Jane Wilson-Howarth

  Mean, Thinking, Deceit

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• I don't like the word ironic. I like the word absurdity, and I don't really understand the word 'irony' too much. The irony comes when you try to verbalize the absurd. When irony happens without words, it's much more exalted.

  David Lynch

  Ironic, Trying, Too Much

  "Inland Empire: the blogosphere's verdict" by Henrietta Clancy, www.theguardian.com. March 12, 2007.

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• The antidote to hubris, to overweening pride, is irony, that capacity to discover and systematize ideas.

  Ralph Ellison

  Pride, Ideas, Hubris

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• I’ll work my way from irony to sincerity in the sinking city, a would-be Whitman of the vulnerable grid.

  Ben Lerner

  Cities, Would Be, Way

  Ben Lerner (2014). “10:04: A Novel”, p.4, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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