Irony Quotes - Page 26

• 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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• United Nations peacekeepers are going all over the world spreading AIDS even while they're trying to bring peace. What a supreme irony.

  Richard Holbrooke

  Trying, World, Aids

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

  Dick Cavett

  Suicide, Littles, Patient

  Dick Cavett (2010). “Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets”, p.153, Macmillan

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• Heaven has fashioned a knife of irony to stab me with.

  Rachel Hartman

  Knives, Heaven

  Rachel Hartman (2012). “Seraphina”, p.104, Random House

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• Humour allows us to see that ultimately things don't make sense. The only thing that truly makes sense is letting go of anything we continue to hold on to. Our ego-mind and emotions are a dramatic illusion. Of course, we all feel that they're real: my drama, your drama, our confrontations. We create these elaborate scenarios and then react to them. But there is nothing really happening outside our mind! This is karma's cosmic joke. You can laugh about the irony of this, or you can stick with your scenario. It's your choice.

  Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche

  Karma, Letting Go, Laughter

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• We didn't understand irony yet in the '80s; we just kind of existed at face value, so there was no nerd cool yet because the digital revolution was still in its infancy.

  Chris Hardwick

  Digital Revolution, Nerd, Faces

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. December 29, 2012.

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• It is one of the ironies of biographical art that some details are more relevant than others, and many details have no relevance at all.

  Paul Bailey

  Art, Details, Relevant

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• There is grim irony in speaking of the freedom of contract of those who, because of their economic necessities, give their service for less than is needful to keep body and soul together.

  Harlan F. Stone

  Giving, Soul, Together

  Morehead v. N.Y. ex rel. Tipaldo, 298 U.S. 587, (632), 1936.

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• It is a strange irony that the principles of science should seem to deny the necessary conviction of common sense.

  Lawrence Joseph Henderson

  Common Sense, Principles, Strange

  "The order of Nature". Book by awrence Joseph Henderson, Ch. 5, 1917.

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• The irony of prison is that it takes years and years and years to plan an elaborate escape, but all you have is years and years and years.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Years, Prison, Plans

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Peter Cooper looks at the world with an artist's eye and a human heart and soul. His songs are the work of an original, creative imagination, alive with humor and heartbreak and irony and intelligence, with truth and beauty in the details. Deep stuff. And they get better every time you listen to them.

  Kris Kristofferson

  Song, Heart, Eye

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• Language and, presumably, literature are more ancient and inevitable, more durable than any form of social organization. The revulsion, irony, or indifference often expressed by literature toward the state is essentially the reaction of the permanent-better yet, the infinite-against the temporary, against the finite.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Organization, Literature, Language

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• At the best, sarcasms, bitter irony, scathing wit, are a sort of swordplay of the mind. You pink your adversary, and he is forthwith dead; and then you deserve to be hung for it.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Sarcasm, Mind, Bitter

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.207

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• It's one of the ironies of human nature that the most sensitive people are generally insensitive to the feelings of others.

  Ann Landers

  People, Feelings, Human Nature

  Ann Landers (1978). “The Ann Landers encyclopedia, A to Z: improve your life emotionally, medically, sexually, socially, spiritually”, Galahad Books

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• Scientists are rarely to be counted among the fun people. Awkward at parties, shy with strangers, deficient in irony - they have had no choice but to turn their attention to the close study of everyday objects.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Fun, Party, Science

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.96, Vintage

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• It is when people are told their own thoughts that they think they are being insulted.

  Isak Dinesen

  Truth, Thinking, People

  Isak Dinesen (2011). “Anecdotes of Destiny and Ehrengard”, p.152, Vintage

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• Men who retain irony are not to be trusted. They can't always resist an impulse to tickle themselves.

  Taylor Caldwell

  Men, Impulse, Trusted

  Taylor Caldwell (2016). “Dynasty of Death: A Novel”, p.499, Open Road Media

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• Louis [Leakey] was anxious to initiate a scientific study of these chimpanzees. It would be difficult, he emphasized, for nothing was known; there were no guidelines for such a field study; and the habitat was remote and rugged. Dangerous wild animals would be living there, and chimpanzees themselves were considered at least four times stronger than humans. I remember wondering what kind of scientist he would find for such a herculean task.

  Jane Goodall

  Science, Animal, Stronger

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• One of the persistent ironies of reform is the impossibility of predicting the full consequences of change.

  Diane Ravitch

  Change, Reform, Persistent

  Diane Ravitch (1974). “The great school wars, New York City, 1805-1973: a history of the public schools as battlefield of social change”

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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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• Mumbling priests swinging stick cans on their chains and even witch doctors conjuring up curses with a well-buried elephant tooth have a better sense of their places in the world. They know this universe is brimming with magic, with life and riddles and ironies. They know that the world might eat them, and no encyclopedia could stop it.

  N.D. Wilson

  Doctors, Elephants, Magic

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• Nobody gets irony anymore, as we are now living in the post-ironic age. Once George Bush gets a library, our irony is dead.

  Eric Idle

  Ironic, Age, Library

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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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