Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old irony quotes, irony sayings, and irony proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.Anatole France
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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that tooW. Somerset Maugham
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Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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Irony is one of my favorite aspects of life.Wes Studi
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Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.Samuel Butler
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Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.Douglas Coupland
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I'd rather be partly great than entirely useless.Neal Shusterman
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It is sometimes easier to be happy if you don't know everything.Alexander Mccall Smith
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Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.Rene Descartes
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Irony is Fate's most common figure of speech.Trevanian
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Humor is everywhere in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.Bill Nye
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The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.Socrates
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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.Robert A. Heinlein
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Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who doSoren Kierkegaard
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My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitchJack Nicholson
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Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a complimentEdwin P. Whipple
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Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.Agnes Repplier
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Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane.Philip K. Dick
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The shortest distance between two points is under construction.Noelie Altito
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Most people would rather be certain they're miserable than risk being happy.Robert Anthony
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Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.Daniel J. Boorstin
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People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world.Calvin
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A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.Jessamyn West
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Irony is the hygiene of the mind.Elizabeth Bibesco
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Irony regards every simple truth as a challengeMason Cooley
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Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument.Rufus Choate
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Irony, I feel, is a very high form of morality.Jean Stafford
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Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.Herman Hesse
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Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.Blaise Pascal
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Reality is wrong. Dreams are for realTupac Shakur
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It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.Voltaire
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Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves?Robin Williams
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A leader leads by example, whether he intends to or not.Steve Jobs
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Example is not the main thing in influencing others, it's the only thingAlbert Schweitzer
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Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge.Mason Cooley
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Pleasure in irony ... is an ego trip.Jessamyn West
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Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.Friedrich Von Schlegel
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It's a tragic irony. The sick stayed well and the healthy became blind.Philip Yordan
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You know, there's a certain irony in the fact that our lives and perhaps the lives of everyone on Earth may depend on Captain Patterson's sex appeal.Charles Beaumont
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Irony is jesting behind hidden gravity.John Weiss
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A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.Jessamyn West
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Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment.Edwin P. Whipple
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Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves.Karl Kraus
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I am consistently inconsistent.Don Williams, Jr.
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Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of itCharles Lamb
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It's like rain on your wedding day.' Only if you're marrying a weatherman and he set the date.Ed Byrne
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Define irony: a bunch of idiots dancing around on a plane to a songGarland Greene
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A man is as young as the woman he feels.Groucho Marx
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I feel so miserable without you, it's almost like having you here.Stephen Bishop
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Sometimes I need what only you can provide: your absence.Ashleigh Brilliant
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It's always darkest before it turns absolutely pitch black.Paul Newman
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History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.Abba Eban
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From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent.H.P. Lovecraft
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.Michel de Montaigne
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Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.Jane Austen
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With every mistake, we must surely be learning.George Harrison
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The irony of life is that those who wear masks often tell us more truths than those with open faces.Marie Lu
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That will do extremely well, child. You have delighted us long enough. Let the other young ladies have time to exhibitJane Austen
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The struggle for a free intelligence has always been a struggle between the ironic and the literal mind.Christopher Hitchens
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A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that "individuality" is the key to success.Robert Orben
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If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you. But if you really make them think, they'll hate you.Don Marquis
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Food is an important part of a balanced diet.Fran Lebowitz