Irony Quotes - Page 8

• Humanity, perhaps, that quality of benevolence that humans have, without irony, named after themselves.

  Laini Taylor

  Humanity, Quality, Benevolence

  Laini Taylor (2011). “Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.43, Hachette UK

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• Irony is the glory of slaves.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Slave, Glory

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• You will love again, people say. Give it time. Me with time running out. Day after day of the everyday. What they call real life, made of eighth-inch gauge. Newness strutting around as if it were significant. Irony, neatness and rhyme pretending to be poetry. I want to go back to that time after Michiko's death when I cried every day among the trees. To the real. To the magnitude of pain, of being that much alive.

  Jack Gilbert

  Running, Pain, Real

  Jack Gilbert (2013). “The Great Fires: Poems, 1982-1992”, p.13, Knopf

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• Do you see the irony at all, Tristan?’ I stare at him and shake my head. He seems determined not to speak again until I do. ‘What irony?’ I ask eventually, the words tumbling out in a hurried heap. ‘That I am to be shot as a coward while you get to live as one.

  John Boyne

  Coward, Tumbling, Determined

  John Boyne (2011). “The Absolutist”, p.285, Random House

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• Every man is a prisoner, and the greatest irony of all is to be the prisoner of another man.

  Sidney Sheldon

  Men, Prisoner, Every Man

  Sidney Sheldon (1992). “Three complete novels”, Wings

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• She looks like a woman who has found it ridiculous to commit herself to a single emotional stance in anything, but must always ride high heavy irony.

  Sylvia Plath

  Emotional, Looks, Ridiculous

  Sylvia Plath (2000). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, 1950-1962”, Anchor

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• I went to university for a couple of years and I didn't enjoy university. The studying and the accountancy, economics, I just hated that stuff. Now the irony is here I am lawyer, accountant, I do it all day every day and sit at a desk. So I've never ended up where I wanted to be in many ways. I always wanted to be a farmer.

  Gerry Harvey

  Couple, Years, Here I Am

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• The grim irony of investing, then, is that we investors as a group not only don't get what we pay for, we get precisely what we don't pay for. So if we pay for nothing, we get everything.

  John C. Bogle

  Groups, Investing, Pay

  John C. Bogle (2010). “The Little Book of Common Sense Investing: The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns”, p.41, John Wiley & Sons

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• It sounds strange, somewhat on the line between irony and absurdity, to think that people would rather label and judge something as significant as each other but completely bypass a peanut. ... World peace is only a dream because people won't allow themselves and others around them to simply be peanuts. We won't allow the color of a man's heart to be the color of his skin, the premise of his beliefs, and his self-worth. We won't allow him to be a peanut, therefore we won't allow ourselves to come to live in harmony. (Diary 18)

  Erin Gruwell

  Dream, Heart, Self Worth

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• You know, sometimes I swear the whole universe runs on irony.

  Simon R. Green

  Running, Sometimes, Swear

  Simon R. Green (2007). “The Man With the Golden Torc”, p.196, Penguin

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• The irony of the process of thought control: the more energy you put into trying to control your ideas and what you think about, the more your ideas end up controlling you.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Thinking, Ideas, Trying

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.78, Random House

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• Italics provide a wonderful advantage: you see, right away, that the words are in a rush. When something exists at a slant, you can't help but consider irony.

  Ann Beattie

  Helping, Wonderful, Advantage

  Ann Beattie (2010). “Walks With Men: Fiction”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• Time changes all things and cultivates even in herself an appreciation of irony, and, therefore, why shouldn't I have changed a trifle?

  James Branch Cabell

  Appreciation, Time, Changed

  James Branch Cabell (2013). “The Essential James Branch Cabell Collection”, p.172, eBookIt.com

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• To have arrived on this earth as a product of a biological accident, only to depart through human arrogance, would be the ultimate irony.

  Richard Leakey

  Arrogance, Intelligence, Would Be

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• Don't be too much concerned about money, because that is the greatest distraction against happiness. And the irony of ironies is that people think they will be happy when they have money. Money has nothing to do with happiness. If you are happy and you have money, you can use it for happiness. If you are unhappy and you have money, you will use that money for more unhappiness. Because money is simply a neutral force.

  Rajneesh

  Happiness, Money, Thinking

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• Because we can engineer genetics, because we can telecast real lives-of course we must, right? But are these good things to do? The irony is, the people who will finally answer that question will be the very ones produced by the process.

  Roger Ebert

  Real, Science, People

  Roger Ebert (2009). “Roger Ebert's Four Star Reviews--1967-2007”, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• I have long been of the opinion that if work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept more of it for themselves.

  Bruce Grocott, Baron Grocott

  Inspirational, Work, Long

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• He's turned his life around. He used to be depressed and miserable. Now he's miserable and depressed.

  Harry Kalas

  Funny, Life, Change

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• The irony of good customer service is that over time it will bring in more new customers than promotions and price slashing ever did!

  Susan Ward

  Educational, Promotion, Good Customer Service

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• The irony is palpable - technical access has never been greater, cultural access never weaker.

  Beeban Kidron

  Technology, Greater, Access

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• The irony is this: Our bodies react to stress in exactly the same way whether or not we have a good reason for being stressed. The body doesn't care if we're right or wrong. Even in those times when we feel perfectly justified in getting angry - when we tell ourselves it's the healthy response - we pay for it just the same

  Howard Martin

  Stress, Healthy, Way

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• Some people suffer in silence louder than others.

  Morrie Brickman

  Funny, People, Silence

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• The Poor Man whom everyone speaks of, the Poor Man whom everyone pities, one of the repulsive Poor from whom charitable souls keep their distance, he has still said nothing. Or, rather, he has spoken through the voice of Victor Hugo, Zola, Richepin. At least, they said so. And these shameful impostures fed their authors. Cruel irony, the Poor Man tormented with hunger feeds those who plead his case.

  Albert Camus

  Distance, Men, Voice

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• Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and a sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Philosophical, Civilization, Play

  Joseph Wood Krutch (1956). “The Modern Temper”

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• It may well be that we shall by a process of sublime irony have reached a state in this story where safety will be the sturdy child of terror, and survival the twin brother of annihilation.

  Winston Churchill

  Brother, Children, War

  Winston Churchill (1961). “The Unwritten Alliance: Speeches 1953 to 1959”

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