Category Irony
Here are some insightful quotes about irony along with their authors:
“At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.” — Frederick Douglass
“If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.” — W. Somerset Maugham
“I suppose that’s one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.” — Charlie Chaplin
“Irony is the hygiene of the mind.” — Elizabeth Bibesco
“Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.” — Anatole France1
“Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world takes everything at face value.” — Douglas Coupland
“Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment.” — Edwin Percy Whipple
“The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.” — Robert A. Heinlein
“Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument.” — Samuel Butler
“One interesting thing about greed is that although the underlying motive is to seek satisfaction, the irony is that even after obtaining the object of your desire you are still not satisfied. The true antidote of greed is contentment.” — Dalai Lama
“Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.” — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.” — Albert Einstein
“Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.” — Agnes Repplier
“From even the greatest of horrors, irony is seldom absent.” — H. P. Lovecraft
“The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates.” — David Foster Wallace
“Life is that perfect fine line between ironies.” — Serj Tankian
“Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.” — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“One of the ironies of being with someone you really love for a long time is becoming completely incapable of handling stressful or difficult things by yourself.” — Ryan Holiday
“Life is full of ironies and absurdities.” — Adam West
“Perhaps the saddest irony of depression is that suicide happens when the patient gets a little better and can again function sufficiently.” — Dick Cavett