Irony Quotes

"She thought of a sunrise over the library slope at Cornell University that nobody out on it had seen because the slope faces west."
-Thomas Pynchon

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch."
-Jack Nicholson

"It is a fitting irony that under Richard Nixon, 'launder' became a dirty word."
-William Zinsser

"Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment."
-Edwin P. Whipple

"Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding."
-Agnes Repplier

"The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive."
-Robert A. Heinlein

"The South is a region of irony. It's both un-American and deeply American."
-Bill Ferris

"We couldn't believe the irony, that we were watching our own demise on TV-it was post-postmodern."
-Alexandra Jacobs

"The irony of ironies for me is that the jury found they pirated our guys? anti-piracy invention."
-Joe Kendall

"What's more, he's had to reckon with some ultimate questions, which he's done with courage and wit and irony."
-Walter Parkes

"It's maybe more irony than anything else."
-Randy Stafford

"There's a certain irony in the mayor's position."
-Terry Christensen

"The irony is that these (executives) want to be a lot more successful with their approach to a horse than they want to be with their approach to a human being."
-Andrew Mitchell

"There is a bit of sweet irony to that."
-Victor Chayet

"The irony is, J&J could have had this company for $76 a share."
-Thomas Gunderson

"Is there some irony here? Probably. But sometimes in order to enact real reform, interesting alliances have to be made."
-Tom Swan

"We knew 3-point shooting was their game. There's a lot of irony in it in that we go on the same philosophy."
-Megan Ronhovde

"That's the ultimate irony. Most of these claims would never have been made if the institutions and the collectors have not been this open and transparent."
-Peter Marzio

"They should definitely abide by their privacy policies. The irony is rich."
-Jim Harper

"I've gotten to saying that the irony is pretty thick around here."
-Jay Beaumont

"It is a horrible irony."
-Steve Mendelson

"There's an irony: He's fighting for liberty and democracy, and back home he's killed because he's a black man in the South."
-Jefferson Russell

"You don't have to be hip to get this movie. Any person with the slightest bit of irony gets it."
-Jeffrey Wells

"Irony is just honesty with the volume cranked up."
-George Saunders

"If they don't, then the businesses will locate wherever they want to locate -- that's the irony."
-Steve Mason

"Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in just about anything a human does."
-Bill Nye

"The ultimate irony is that I'm becoming part of the establishment."
-John Waters

"There's irony in using an unconstitutional measure to promote Constitution Day."
-Roger Pilon