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Irony  Quotes
You ought to be ironical the minute you get out of bed. You ought to wake up with your mouth full of pity.

—Ernest Hemingway

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I would rather be an artist than a leader. Ironically, a leader has to follow the rules.

—Criss Jami

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I should learn patience, it’s a shame there’s no time for that.

—Maija Haavisto

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You might as well laugh at yourself,everyone else is.

—B.J. Neblett

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Aló, ,con la Casa de la Cultura?- Sí conchetumadre.

—Nicanor Parra

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Peace ain’t worth fighting for.

—Brian Spellman

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Irony is Fate’s most common figure of speech.

—Trevanian

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With every mistake, we must surely be learning.

—George Harrison

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«It’s true, Christian-like or not; and is about as Christian-like as most other things in the world,» said Alfred.

—Harriet Beecher

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He expects us to kill him,” Palomides said to Dinadan.”Some people are so demanding,” Dinadan replied. “Considering we’ve only just met, I mean.

—Gerald Morris

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Værsåartig, her var nu litt om bær, vore bærsorter…

—Knut Hamsun

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Once you hold the hand of Death, the only thing in life that can scare you is a sense of humor.

—Lionel Suggs

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Curley’s wife lay with a half-covering of yellow hay. And the meanness and the plannings and the discontent and the ache for attention were all gone from her face. She was pretty and simple, and...

—John Steinbeck

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Everybody granted that if “Tom” were white and free it would be unquestionably right to punish him–it would be no loss to anybody; but to shut up a valuable slave for life–that was quite another...

—Mark Twain

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I actually feel quite self-indulgent at the moment, telling you all about me, me, me.(…) On the other hand, you’re a human -you should understand self obsession.

—Markus Zusak

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There is at least one advantage to being an Indonesian citizen: With this country’s expanse of land and even greater expanse of sea, it’s not difficult finding space for one’s grave.

—Pramoedya Ananta

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The human ego is the ugliest part of man. We lift up men who only show us darkness, and put down those brave enough to show us the light. Likewise, people engage in darkness when...

—Suzy Kassem

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The greatest irony is that people with Rolodexes are no longer LinkedIn. And if that pun doesn’t make sense, don’t ask anyone in your Rolodex to explain it.

—Ryan Lilly

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God’s in His heaven—All’s right with the world!

—Robert Browning

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Human nature is pretty shabby stuff, as you may know from introspection.

—Peter De

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Just to keep the bad dreams at bay, she took a swig out of a bottle that smelled of apples and happy brain-death.

—Terry Pratchett

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Assumptions are unopened windows that foolish birds fly into, and their broken bodies are evidence gathered too late.

—Bryan Davis

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What are all these?” Clary asked.”Vials of holy water, blessed knives, steel and silver blades,” Jace said, piling the weapons on the floor beside him, “electrum wire – not much use at the moment but...

—Cassandra Clare

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Whatever you are, do not even assume that you will be surrounded and gnawed by luxurious worms of an exquisite breed.

—Alexander Zalan

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You don’t buy poetry. (Neither do I.)Why?You cannot afford it? Bosh! You spendEditions de luxe on a thirsty friend.You can buy any one of the poetry bunchFor the price you pay for a business lunch....

—Edmund Vance

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The only ironic thing about that song is that it’s called ‘Ironic’ and it is written by a woman who doesn’t know what irony is. That’s quite ironic when you think about it. (on Alanis...

—Ed Byrne

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Wrath: look at how their folklore portrays our species. There’s Dracula for Christ’s sake, an evil bloodsucker who preys on the defenseless. There’s piss-poor B movies and porn. And don’t get me started on the...

—J.R. Ward

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He had the tendency, unfortunate for a new member of the committee, to like if not the rich themselves, at least their activities and surroundings, and to dislike the poor; a woman in rags toting...

—Hans Koningsberger

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I cannot say much for this Monarch’s Sense–Nor would I if I could, for he was a Lancastrian. I suppose you know all about the Wars between him and the Duke of York who was...

—Jane Austen

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to travel faster than a speeding bullet is not much help if you and it are heading straight towards each other

—John Brunner

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Nay, but prithee, with sprinkles ‘pon it instead,” I said solemnly, “and frosting of white.

—Jim Butcher

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That Jim Crow there in the window,” answered the urchin, holding out a cent, and pointing to the gingerbread figure that had attracted his notice, as he loitered along to school; “the one that has...

—Nathaniel Hawthorne

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The irony was not lost on any of us that despite the theme there was a robot on the throne.

—Kathryn Davis

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For with dandies, a joke is the only way of making yourself respected.

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When did I start feeling so safe with him? I guess knowing that my friends wouldn’t set me up with some psycho criminal helps.

—Rene Webb

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Funny, though, I don’t feel too bad.

—Suzanne Collins

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

—Ray Bradbury

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As the ironist does not have the new within his power, it might be asked how he destroys the old, and to this it must be answered: he destroys the given actuality by the given...

—Søren Kierkegaard

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If you think this Universe is bad, you should see some of the others.

—Philip K.

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I am beginning to believe that nothing is quite so uncertain as facts. (Edward Curtis)

—Timothy Egan

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Being at the losing side of a battle will allow you to devise a plan even better than when you were on the winning side

—Alain L. Aguilar

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girlsplease give yourbodies and yourlivestothe young menwhodeserve thembesidesthere isno wayI would welcometheintolerabledullsenseless hellyou would bringmeandI wish youluckin bedandoutbut notinminethankyou.

—Charles Bukowski

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The Tyr had tried. It had really tried. It must have gone over every element of human psychology, tried desperately to understand the nature of human aesthetic sense … and then failed, miserably, in every...

—C.S. Friedman

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Salcombe Hardy groaned: “How long, O Lord, how long shall we have to listen to all this tripe about commercial arsenic? Murderers learn it now at their mother’s knee.

—Dorothy L. Sayers

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I had made a friend. My second one in fourteen years. I was on a roll

—James Patterson

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All U.S. irony is based on an implicit “I don’t really mean what I say.” So what does irony as a cultural norm mean to say? That it’s impossible to mean what you say? That...

—David Foster Wallace

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Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life’s cruelest irony.

—Douglas Coupland

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Since ideology, particularly in it’s shallower versions, is peculiarly destructive of the capacity to apprehend and appreciate irony, I suggest that the recovery of the ironic might be our fifth principle for the restoration of...

—Harold Bloom

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It was growing late, and though one might stand on the brink of a deep chasm of disaster, one was still obliged to dress for dinner.

—Georgette Heyer

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There are elements of irony in my work, of course.

—Martin Parr

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