Top 519 Ironic Quotes & Sayings

It is a little ironic that one thing a babysitter should not do is sit on a baby.

It's kind of ironic that if I get my Ph.D., I'll be a real doctor.

I would say my work is anti-ironic.

Ironic people always dissolve when confronted with earnestness, it's their kryptonite

I'm just trying to portray what I find ironic or humorous.

I'm being ironic. Don't interrupt a man in the midst of being ironic, it's not polite. There!

It is ironic that losing makes you more liked than winning.

I have a great sense of humor, but it has an ironic twist to it.

I know it might be kind of ironic, but I like funny films and documentaries.

It's so ironic - when you finally achieve recognition, you hide behind dark glasses.

It's so ironic. When you finally achieve recognition, you hide behind dark glasses.

Ironic philosophies produce passionate works.

Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism

Ironic, huh? To keep that part of me alive, I have to be close to that which kills it.

Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past.

We never wanted to be ironic; we didn't want to wink at the audience.

Lyrically I'm very ironic and silly, but I hope I'll touch your heart

It is easy to keep secrets by being honest in an ironic tone of voice.

It's so ironic that you often hear these right-wing people talking about the Constitution.

I'm the anti indie-rocker. My stuff isn't ironic.

The passive ironic attitude is not cool or romantic, but pathetic and destructive.

I don't watch much British television at all. I mean, it's ironic because I used to work in it for years.

I am drawn to humorous art that is ironic.

Ironic, isn't it, what religion does to people?" "I guess it's more ironic what people do to religion.

Ironic things are interesting.

I don't like the ironic tone that our pop culture, in the world, has taken. Everything is 'ironic.' Everything is 'cool.'

One of the most difficult and ironic murder weapons is the life jacket.

The univers is statistically more likely to be ironic than not.

The barometer that shows "variable" is an ironic indictment of God.

It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.

I really try, at least consciously, not to be cynical or ironic.

I teach ethics at the FBI academy, which is ironic.

It's really ironic that I won, because that's not the goal that I had in mind when I went out to skate.

It's highly ironic that it was the conservatives on the court who overturned so many statutes.

It's kind of ironic that if I get my Ph.D., I'll be a real doctor

I just want to be good at soccer and have a normal life; it is a little ironic that you can't have both.

I got 'Reign In Blood' for Easter one year - how ironic is that?

When I was a boy, unconsciously, spontaneously I learned the art of telling ironic stories.

Ironic and jittery, we are puzzled by the old heroes with their fighting, boasting, and cocksure lovemaking.

"Politics" per se is absent from my writing but there is usually a moral (if ironic) compass.

It's ironic that no matter where I go, I meet people from Brooklyn. I'm proud of that heritage. It's where I'm from, who I am.

The humor is the sort born of ironic necessity; they use it to salve the wounds in insensitity.

I just really don't like being the center of attention that much. It's kind of ironic.

I used to love Kurt Cobain, when he was telling people we're a pop band. People would laugh, they thought of it as good old ironic Kurt. But he wasn't being ironic.

If two baseball players from the same hometown, on different teams, receive the same uniform number, it is not ironic. It is a coincidence. If Barry Bonds attains lifetime statistics identical to his father's, it will not be ironic. It will be a coincidence.

There's always something at least a little smug about self-reference - magazine articles about idealistic journalists, TV shows about TV actors, ironic films within ironic-er films: all this meta-media populated by thinly disguised characters making oblique inside jokes.

It was ironic; he held her captive, yet she’d captivated him.

There's something I find very satisfying about a nice ironic twist.

It is ironic that many Filipinos learn to love the Philippines while abroad, not at home.

I have quite a collection of ironic band T shirts.

He had come to believe that life was a series of ironic ambushes. - Doctor Sleep

After ages of bombast, the rhetoric of virtue has become ironic and shy.

I'm shooting a commercial for safe sex. How ironic. Because I don't have that.

There's nothing more ironic or contradictory than life itself.

And an anteater plus a large hungry mutant ant? An ironic way to die.

Irony is the disparity between what you expect will happen, and what does happen. So raining on your wedding day isn't ironic, it's just crappy. It would have been ironic if she had lived in a place like Seattle, and traveled to the desert of Mexico for a wedding and it ended up raining there, but not in Seattle. Alanis always gets the last laugh though. We all sit here, saying her song isn't ironic, but in fact, that's pretty ironic that she wrote a song called Ironic that wasn't really ironic. Those Canadians are pretty crafty.

Travel at its truest is thus an ironic experience.

The Arabic music I listen to is extremely edgy. Ironic, sarcastic, sensual, erotic.

It's so ironic that the better you get the easier it becomes to win.

Ironic that in order to do my life's work, I had to quit my day job.