Top 1200 Irony Of Life Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

Love, your own witch-daughter, Queen of the Mirror and the Highest Protector of Irony

It would be the irony of fate if my administration had to deal chiefly with foreign affairs.

Honesty and unpopular opinions are the toughest sell in a country with an irony-deficiency.

I think people under age 55 come to Vegas with a certain sense of irony.

Making a film that's supposed to be fun to watch is really hard - that's the weird irony of it.

I have wit in my work and a sense of humor, but I do not use irony in any way

It is an irony that the era of crafty villains such as Gabbar Singh or Mogambo has gone away.

The irony of love is that it guarantees some degree of anger, fear and criticism.

I love the irony. I'm perceived as being really young and yet I have the clinical condition of an old man.

Love: the sickest of Irony’s sick jokes. The place where logic and order go to die.

From my point of view, humour and irony include tragedy; they're two sides of the same coin.

Irony gives us, at little expense, the impression that we are experienced psychologists.

My generation has a hard time being genuine and enthusiastic. There's a lot of irony in our culture.

Studies of volunteers have shown there is a benefit to performing acts of love for other people. The irony is that it is actually in your best interest to be selfless. The things you do for the benefit of others not only make you feel fulfilled, they increase your chances of living a long and happy life. Remember that an act of love always benefits at least two people.

Each day of the Obama presidency seems to bring a new, perversely delicious irony.

The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of probably my best poetry.

We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power.

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

The South has more of a disproportionate amount of irony on T-shirts than any other region in the country.

Irony - The modern mode: either the devil’s mark or the snorkel of sanity.

The antidote to hubris, to overweening pride, is irony, that capacity to discover and systematize ideas.

I really think [the Bush Administration]'s foreign policy agenda is to spread irony through the world.

Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.

Irony became the head that bit its tail and then there is no way out.

Art and irony would disintegrate the personality, kitsch makes it whole.

I was not interested in irony; I wanted to emphasize the primacy of the idea in making art.

I had some people who disagreed with me here or there - but nothing as strong as I've received, you know, coming to America. That is the irony of life, so I guess - I always tell people - I go I feel like in a strange way, I'm home. You know, this doesn't shock me. This is just - I've come a long way to be in a place that is extremely familiar to me.

Sure, nothing succeeds like success. Fact is, dearest, we are fools. We cling to an ideal no one wants or cares about. I am the greater fool of the two of us. I go on eating out my heart and poisoning every moment of my life in the attempt to rouse people's sensibilities. At least if I could do it with closed eyes. The irony is I see the futility of my efforts and yet I can't let go.

For a wonderful physical tie binds the parents to the children; and - by some sad, strange irony - it does not bind us children to our parents. For if it did, if we could answer their love not with gratitude but with equal love, life would lose much of its pathos and much of its squalor, and we might be wonderfully happy.

I think Douglas [Adams] is writing with an eye to irony for adults at the same time as entertaining children.

The irony is that science has served only to show how small human knowledge is.

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

I’ll work my way from irony to sincerity in the sinking city, a would-be Whitman of the vulnerable grid.

It's an irony of our times that men seeking peace must make war.

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

The main business of a lawyer is to take the romance, the mystery, the irony, the ambiguity out of everything he touches.

My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony.

I think of the irony that in our language [Nepali] the word for love can also mean deceit.

The irony of a director going to film festivals is you never get to see any of the films.

I guess my sense of humour leans more towards irony and tongue-in-cheek performance.

God's irony, that in order to fight and defeat the threat of terrorism, we shall have to be clear about the principle of justice that allows us to understand what is evil in terrorism. And that principle of justice is the claim of justice that is inherent in every innocent human life. But if that claim was there in the Twin Towers, if it was there on the airplanes that those terrorists attacked, you explain to me why it is not there in the womb!

I'm so sick of sarcasm and irony, I could kill! Sincerely, the real root of things is love and sacrifice.

For me, true kitsch has nothing to do with irony. It's very honest. It represents what people like, their dreams.

Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves.

Experiences that banish irony are much better for living than for writing.

I have wit in my work and a sense of humor, but I do not use irony in any way.

If the Ego is hateful, Love your neighbor as yourself becomes a cruel irony.

I know the universe has a sense of irony, and sometimes you get reminded just how sadistic that can be.

I think the irony ... is that I actually would like to see a relatively light touch when it comes to the government.

The irony of the matter is that the future generations do not have a vote. In effect, we hold their proxy.

The irony is that musical artists have enormous public voices, but behind the scenes we're voiceless, actually.

I regard everything with irony, including the face I see in the mirror when I wake up in the morning.

I'm the type of spiritual person that doesn't speak openly about their spirituality. Irony is probably my religion.

My book has a very simple surface, but there are layers of irony and paradox all the way through it.

It's kind of a terrible irony, in a way, that the solution to America's problems was World War II.

You humans, you know, whoever built you sewed irony into your sinews.

The definition of black irony is Pro-lifers killing Doctors who do abortions

When you know that everything happens for the best, then everything that happens is okay with you. The irony of this is that when everything that happens is okay with you, you set up an energy field of such equanimity and harmony with the universe that the universal law of attraction draws more equanimity and harmony into your life.

There are a million ways to make money in the markets. The irony is that they are all very difficult to find.

I think I would explode in flames of irony if I were to option an idea that I was satirizing in a novel.