Words matter. These are the best Irony Quotes from famous people such as Marcel Wanders, Bill Hicks, Stacey Abrams, Jon Favreau, Jiang Wen, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
For me, true kitsch has nothing to do with irony. It’s very honest. It represents what people like, their dreams.
People in the U.K. share my bemusement with the United States that America doesn’t share with itself. They have a sense of irony, which America doesn’t have, seeing as it’s being run by fundamentalists who take things literally.
The formerly incarcerated – returning citizens – often face a cruel irony in America. Having paid their debt to society, too many are banned from the ballot box that could help them dismantle policies that essentially extend their sentences.
The irony is that the more unapologetically sexist men are in movies, the more women tend to be attracted to them in person.
Whether it’s Shakespeare or Moliere, irony is a key component in the construction of theatre. A script would be pretty bad if it was devoid of irony.
Irony is going to be hard to get. You have to be master of the literal first. But then, Americans don’t get irony either. Computers are going to reach the level of Americans before Brits.
I’ve always gravitated towards those ultimate lines in songs, the line you grab on to. That line in ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit,’ ‘Here we are now/Entertain us’ – the irony, the antagonism; that’s always stuck with me.
When the Beatles were on ‘Ed Sullivan,’ life went from black and white to color like in ‘The Wizard of Oz’ – and the irony I’m in the band Toto is not lost on me.
There are elements of irony in my work, of course.
Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.
Instagram is not a place for tone or irony.
There’s an irony about making a film about punk because punk isn’t supposed to have feature films made about it.
Art for Duchamp, all the arts, obey the same law: meta-irony is inherent in their very spirit. It is an irony that destroys its own negation and, hence, returns in the affirmative.
The kind of funny irony is that a lot of people talk about ethical meat eating as if it’s a way to care about things, but also not to alienate yourself from the rest of the world. But it’s so much more alienating than vegetarianism.
Cervantes is the most important Spanish writer. But he is not the most representative of the Spanish. His irony, his sense of humor – they are too subtle to seem Spanish.
I’m not into cartoons. That’s the irony of it.
The irony of the political rise of the plutocrats is that, like Venice’s oligarchs, they threaten the system that created them.
You know, there’s a real irony in U.S. assistance programs. First of all, I think it’s misnamed. We’re not so much trying to help people as we’re trying to help ourselves. So let’s be clear about this. So these are – in my view, they’re cold calculations of national security and not aid programs.
When people affected by epilepsy are reluctant to expose their condition, the public remains in the dark about it – a tragic irony that has made patient care and raising funds for research more than challenging.
I am obsessed with story. I had a late awakening in life. In college was the first time that I understood what you could do with a story and what a good novel is – literary value and subtext and irony and everything.
The main business of a lawyer is to take the romance, the mystery, the irony, the ambiguity out of everything he touches.
You know the great irony is that people think you have to have money to enjoy fine food, which is a shame.
At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
I don’t think I see the world in terms of stupid or clever, but in terms of being able to get irony. There’s some awful statistic about only 20 per cent of Americans being able to understand irony.
Life is full of ironies and absurdities.
Everyone is tearing each other apart in the name of their personal god. And the irony is, by definition, they’re probably worshiping the same god.
One of the major issues that’s constantly batted around Hollywood and the media is my industry’s responsibility toward the portrayal of violence. There’s the irony of the films that glorify it and the individuals taking positions against it. It’s a very confusing, confounding place.
I love Sell Out, I think it’s great. I love the jingles. The whole thing as an album is a wonderful piece of work. The cover. Everything about it. It’s got humor, great songs, irony.
It’s one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work – the night watchman.
I’m not sure a lot of us in the music business or in rock ‘n’ roll are given credit for irony or humor.
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
The irony is that the more we fight age, the more it shows. Paint on a 50-year-old face brings to mind a Gilbert and Sullivan comic figure. Smooth the cheeks, and suddenly the ear lobes and hands look out of place. Do we run around in October, painting the gold leaves green?
We’re not big on irony in Jamaica, sarcasm and double-talk. We tend to say things plainly, sometimes to the point of boredom.
The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of probably my best poetry.
The irony is that Washington was, in reality, very much like Benedict Arnold. The big difference was that Washington was ultimately able to control his emotions, something Arnold never learned to do.
Irony is one of my favorite aspects of life.
But the irony is that because the band isn’t the focus any more, it allows me the chance to enjoy being a member of Def Leppard much more.
The exact meaning of irony is so narrow that the word is hardly worth using; in its broad, current definition, it’s a euphemism for sarcasm. ‘I’m not being sarcastic; I’m being ironic.’ No, you’re not. You’re evading the responsibility for being sarcastic.
I don’t mock things, which makes me more vulnerable to mockery myself. If you’re cynical, you’re protected from mockery. But I have to be nice. I don’t think I have irony. A sense of humour, yes, but not irony.
The irony of what I do is that the more you reveal someone in their frailties and shortcomings, the more we feel drawn to them and forgiving we feel of them.
Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.
Anti-capitalism is nothing new in Hollywood. From ‘Wall-E’ to ‘Avatar,’ corporations are routinely depicted as evil. The contradiction of corporate-funded films denouncing corporations is an irony capitalism cannot just absorb, but thrive on. Yet this anti-capitalism is only allowed within limits.
One of the maddening ironies of writing books is that it leaves so little time for reading others’. My bedside is piled with books, but it’s duty reading: books for book research, books for review. The ones I pine for are off on a shelf downstairs.
One of the ironies of being a professional writer is that, if you are even moderately successful, the very traits that let you succeed as a writer are not much help when the time comes to head out as ‘The Author.’
Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life’s ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved.
Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.
That is where the irony of the film comes off, in terms of the language it employs – where he tries desperately to be a ‘TV Dad,’ to give advice and it’s so pat it becomes ridiculous.
Richard Branson once said: ‘Tony’s very good at selling bands and he’s very good at making television programmes. But he’ll never be great at either, until he decides which one he wants to do.’ I entirely accept that. That doesn’t matter to me very much. I like the irony of the two lives.
My dad moved to London in his early 20s and didn’t really go back. So the irony is I’ve spent lots and lots of time in Ireland, but not with my dad. I’ve shot films in Belfast, where he’s from. And I’ve shot in Dun Laoghaire. Which is great. And I’ve shot in Dublin.
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.
Humor is everywhere in that there’s irony in just about anything a human does.
When I do the dodecahedron with the science audiences, I’ll point out that I can only do three of the five forms with bubbles, since bubbles only join at three-way corners. The two I can’t do are the ones that represent water and air. That always gets a big laugh from the mathematicians. They see the irony in it.
As a kid, I didn’t know that ‘All in the Family’ was satirizing male chauvinism or that Bobby Riggs was a self-promoting put-on. Many of us didn’t get the irony and went on making fun of women and girls who wanted to play sports, especially the same sports that men and boys traditionally played.
I could write a joke song really easily, but I think something that might be true for my generation is that there’s a certain irony or detachedness expected of us, even though we really feel sincere. So the only way to sincerity is through a joke.
