Browsing Topic Best Ironic Quotes

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

With fame I become more and more stupid, which of course is a very common phenomenon.

The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.

If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.

I think people resist freedom because they’re afraid of the unknown. But it’s ironic….That unknown was once very well known. It’s where our souls belong….The only solution is to confront them – confront yourself – with the greatest fear imaginable. Expose yourself to your deepest fear. After that, fear has no power, and fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.

Stephen King writes a lot of things that are really charming and quirky, and that are more ironic than horror.

It is ironic that people of modest means sometimes become conservative out of a scarcity fear bred by the very capitalist system they support.

Mycologists are few and far between. We are under-funded, poorly represented in the context of other sciences – ironic as the very foundation of our ecosystems are directly dependent upon fungi, which ultimately create the foundation of soils.

What an ironic tragedy that an affluent, Christian minority in the world continues to hoard its wealth while hundreds of millions of people hover on the edge of starvation!

It’s so ironic that life is all about love, yet we live most of it either searching, never finding, or messing it up.

It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from our creator, our very self-consciousness, is also the one thing that divides us from our fellow creatures. It was a bitter birthday present from evolution.

As believers, you don’t need to pray for a new heart, you need to pray for a new head.

It is the oldest ironies that are still the most satisfying: man, when preparing for bloody war, will orate loudly and most eloquently in the name of peace.

I drew the last image ever of Opus at midnight while Puccini was playing and I got rather stupid. Thirty years. A bit like saying goodbye to a child – which is ironic because I was never, never sentimental about him as many of his fans were.

It might be a good idea if the various countries of the world would occasionally swap history books, just to see what other people are doing with the same set of facts.

I love the combination of smartness, pain, and what one might call conscious postmodern trashiness in this book: a version of the erotic full of nervous tension which animates the sensuality, and also Zimroth’s feeling for words, compressed, ironic, withholding, but also ‘asking for it . . . the siege, the thrill, the battle fatigue.’ A profoundly urban book, of harsh memory and fantasy, set in harsher reality.

[Michelle Obama] was the hardest sell. And she never fully embraced being in the public spotlight, which is ironic, given how good she is.

It is unbelievably sad and ironic that the first victims of global warming are almost all going to come from places that are producing virtually none of the problem.

I sip my coffee. I look at the mountain, which is still doing its tricks, as you look at a still-beautiful face belonging to a person who was once your lover in another country years ago: with fond nostalgia, and recognition, but no real feelings save a secret astonishment that you are now strangers. Thanks. For the memories. It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from our creator–our very self-consciousness–is also the one thing that divides us from our fellow creatures. It was a bitter birthday present from evolution, cutting us off at both ends.

Taking privacy cues from the federal government is – to say the least – ironic, considering today’s Orwellian level of surveillance. At virtually any given time outside of one’s own home, an American citizen can reasonably assume his movements and actions are being monitored by something, by somebody, somewhere.

You can’t always just put color filters in 80s aerobic videos or take stuff from public-access and look at it in this very ironic, self-conscious way. That only takes you so far.

Ironic philosophies produce passionate works.

I have long been of the opinion that if work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept more of it for themselves.

We’re weird guys. I don’t know if a lot of people get our humor. A lot of people probably think we’re jerks. We’re real sarcastic. Really ironic and stuff. We mean well, but we joke around probably a lot more than we should.

If gay marriage was OK … then I saw no reason in principle why a union should not be consecrated between three men, as well as two men; or indeed three men and a dog.

If the environment were a bank, it would have been saved by now

Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.

Some of us will probably become famous. It will be an ironic fame fashioned largely by those who have never seen our work.

It was ironic how love could awaken them to the wonders of the universe, while at the same time confine their attention to one another.

I failed in some subjects in exam, but my friend passed in all. Now he is an engineer in Microsoft and I am the owner of Microsoft.

Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.

Obama administration has been the most narcotics-jailing administration ever. I just think it’s so ironic and underhanded. It’s so contrary to the consciousness and the feeling of the rest of the country. With a Democrat running things, it’s still just the same things going on.

People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish… but that’s only if it’s done properly.