Irony Quotes - Page 25

• irony is an indispensable ingredient of the critical vision; it is the safest antidote to sentimental decay.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Vision, Decay, Ingredients

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

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• It would appear, from the best examples, that the proper way of beginning a preface to one's work is with a humble apology for having written at all.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Humble, Apology, Example

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

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• Among the Diaries beginning with the second quarter of our century, there is frequent mention of a lady then becoming famous for her beauty and her wit: "an unusual combination," in the deliberate syllables of one of the writers, who is, however, not disposed to personal irony when speaking of her.

  George Meredith

  Book, Becoming, Diaries

  George Meredith (1897). “Diana of the Crossways: A Novel”, p.51, Wayne State University Press

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• One can never be too rich or too thin' is an aphorism attributed to the Duchess of Windsor. Being both rich and thin is a difficult enterprise, indeed almost unprecedented as an ideal. Into the paradoxical gap between the capacity to spend money and the need to eat less steps a brilliant solution: 'light' food. In buying 'light' food we can pay more for what costs less to produce in the first place.

  Margaret Visser

  Light, Needs, Cost

  Margaret Visser (2010). “Much Depends on Dinner: The Extraordinary History and Mythology, Allure and Obsessions, Perils and Taboos of an Ordinary Mea”, p.109, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Most people think leadership is about being in charge. Most people think leadership is about having all the answers and being the most intelligent person or the most qualified person in the room. The irony is that it is the complete opposite. Leadership is about empowering others to achieve things they did not think possible. Leadership is about pointing in the direction, articulating a vision of the world that does not yet exist. Then asking help from others to insure that vision happens.

  Simon Sinek

  Intelligent, Thinking, Opposites

  "Why Leaders Should Always Eat Last – Simon Sinek Interview". Interview With Dan Schawbel, www.quickbase.com. February 19, 2014.

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• The irony is that the best thing we can do is, well one option, is to quit job we don't like. You don't always have to quit, and quite frankly, option two is to try to help others solve the problem that you are struggling with.

  Simon Sinek

  Jobs, Struggle, Helping Others

  "Why Leaders Should Always Eat Last – Simon Sinek Interview". Interview With Dan Schawbel, www.quickbase.com. February 19, 2014.

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• I wonder if Bettie Page original gay cult had something to do with the ironies inherent in her image, as well as her innate fabulousness as an image.

  Mary Harron

  Gay, Pages, Wonder

  Source: susiebright.blogs.com

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• Nothing is as easy or natural as consumer brands want us to think - no problem is as resolvable. Your hair will fall out, eventually. Yet we do have these brands, and we line our shelves with them. There's an inherent irony.

  Aaron Belz

  Fall, Thinking, Hair

  "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.

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• The show is not a history lesson or intellectual exploration. It is entertainment based on tension, irony and storytelling that is closely related to today’s life.

  Matthew Weiner

  Intellectual, Lessons, Today

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• People are complex, and I think it's a huge element of what I do, because you have to balance out the fact that you talk about quite serious things with a sense of irony and tongue-in-cheek humor. That's my personality as well.

  Marina and the Diamonds

  Thinking, People, Personality

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• That's a heavy word, but picking up a newspaper every day, how can you not despair at what's happening in the world, and how we're represented as human beings? The disappointments and corruption are dismaying at every level. And the biggest source of evil is of course religion... Everyone are tearing each other apart in the name of their personal god. And the irony is, by definition, they're probably worshipping the same god.

  Ridley Scott

  Disappointment, Names, Evil

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Irony is a qualification of subjectivity.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Subjectivity, Qualifications

  "On the Concept of Irony with Continual Reference to Socrates". Book by Soren Kierkegaard, 1841.

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• Irony limits, finitizes, and circumscribes and thereby yields truth, actuality, content; it disciplines and punishes and thereby yields balance and consistency.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Yield, Discipline, Consistency

  "On the Concept of Irony with Continual Reference to Socrates". Book by Soren Kierkegaard, 1841.

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• The presence of irony does not necessarily mean that the earnestness is excluded. Only assistant professors assume that.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Mean, Doe, Assistants

  "Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments". Book by Soren Kierkegaard, February 28, 1846.

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• Irony is the cultivation of the spirit and therefore follows next after immediacy; then comes the ethicist, then the humourist, then the religious person.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Religious, Next, Spirit

  "Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments". Book by Soren Kierkegaard, p. 504, February 28, 1846.

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• A third variety of drama ... begins as tragedy with scraps of fun in it ... and ends in comedy without mirth in it, the place of mirth being taken by a more or less bitter and critical irony.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Fun, Drama, Taken

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• I hope that my ideas attract a lively dialogue, even if my sentences are simple. Simple sentences have always served me well. And I don't use semicolons. It's hard to read anyway, especially for high school kids. Also, I avoid irony, too. I don't like people saying one thing and meaning the other.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  School, Kids, Simple

  Source: www.mcsweeneys.net

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• It's an astonishing skill that people can read, and read well. Very few people can read well. For instance, I have to be very careful with irony, saying something while meaning the exact opposite.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Opposites, Skills, People

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. June 12, 2003.

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• I believe the personal is the collective. One of the ironies of writing memoir is in using the "I" it becomes an alchemical "we." This is the sorcery of literature.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Believe, Writing, Sorcery

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The irony about selling out is that they only call you a sell-out when your stuff finally sells - I've had products bearing my name since I was 14, but nobody was buying them then.

  Tony Hawk

  Names, Stuff, Buying

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• Failure is a trickster with a keen sense of irony and cunning. It takes great delight in tripping one when success is almost within reach.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Delight, Tripping

  Napoleon Hill, Wyatt North (2014). “Think and Grow Rich”, p.23, Wyatt North Publishing, LLC

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• Sacred cows make great hamburgers.

  Robert Reisner

  Hamburgers, Cows, Sacred

  Robert George Reisner, Lorraine Wechsler (1974). “Encyclopedia of Graffiti”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• 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

  Thinking, Style, Sometimes

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• The act of seeing any film generally is you knowing more than the characters, even if its the classic Hitchcock shot of two people talking and a bomb being under the table. Part of the pleasure of it is seeing where people go wrong, and the irony of situations.

  Richard Ayoade

  Character, Talking, Two

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. June 3, 2011.

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• The irony is that the people we tend to vote for actually look down on voters and voting. That's just idiotic, right? That's like a snake eating its own tail! A wolf in a trap gnawing off its own head to escape!

  Steven Weber

  Snakes, People, Voting

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

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