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.

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.

The humor is the sort born of ironic necessity; they use it to salve the wounds in insensitity.

The thing is, comedy’s gone in a weird direction. People are really into ironic comedy and fakeness and cleverness.

King Arthur is profoundly stupid and inept.. then there’s Clive Owen, rising above it all. Aloof yet watchful, the actor cultivates an inner stillness that is perfect for faintly ironic brooders. He neither distances himself from this risible material nor pulls out the stops and opens himself to ridicule. His King Arthur tells us little about Arthur, but much about protecting one’s flank. The mark of a box-office king?

Large increases in cost with questionable increases in performance can be tolerated only in race horses and fancy women.

How to Be an American Housewife is filled with dreams and love-the kinds that come true and those that don’t. Margaret Dilloway is wise and ironic. She has created wonderful characters who never, in spite of hardships, stop finding ways to love each other.

When I first signed up for a Twitter account – I was to say it was in 2007, people are going to think it’s some weird self promotional thing or it’s going, but in time I was called upon to like try to persuade other foreign correspondents and journalists to get on Twitter and see the usefulness of it which is kind of ironic. I think the journalists who are leading the digital charge at the Times have, all have that background as a foreign correspondent, which I think is not accidental.

I don’t want to be the center of attention, which is ironic. I hate having all eyes on me – unless it’s for my job, and my job is playing football. I’m not that attention-hungry.

One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

One ironic legacy of the Clinton administration is the rearming of the American citizenry. Each time Clinton and his friends in Congress threaten another round of anti-gun regulations, the American people respond by stocking up.

My personal success would be that people understand what I was trying to do. It was the most palatable when I watchmen_7_mdid Dawn. With Watchmen, too, I feel the same way. The movie’s ironic and satirical and it’s funny and serious and that’s kind of the same way I felt about Dawn. Like I really was making a movie that knows it’s a zombie movie and enjoys that and wants the audience to say, yeah, that’s okay.

There’s that weird and cool line that music can cross where it still gives you the goosebumps and you think it’s cool but on the other hand it’s sort of like also letting you off the hook a little bit with the ironic aspects of the thing. I think that’s the inexplicable, the smell of a movie. That’s the taste of the movie.

Humor brings insight and tolerance.

It’s kind of ironic that my character is a doctor who acts very gay with his best friend. I don’t see how gays could ever be doctors, they spend too much time whining about everything. Just get off your soapbox and go back to designing floral arrangements.

What I found most ironic is that the safest part for us as journalists was during the actual war. Back then, during that stage of fighting, we were not targets. After the war itself, during the first month or two, it was extremely safe. We could go anywhere in Iraq, talk to anyone, and didn’t have to worry about anything.

I don’t want my personal life to change. I don’t understand why people strive for fame. I know it’s ironic for me to be saying this, but this will be the last one I do.

Health consists of having the same diseases as one’s neighbors.

It is ironic that it doesn’t matter how successful I am in any other capacity. Ultimately, my parents marker is do you have a wife? And do you have children?

Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.

For a time after my divorce everything began to seem profoundly ironic to me. I found myself thinking of other peoples’ worries as sources of amusement and private derision which I thought about at night to make myself feel better.

We become lost in being everywhere but here and now, and the ironic part is that the present is the only place that will make us feel better.

The ironic life is a life keenly alert, keenly sensitive, reacting promptly with feelings of liking or dislike to each bit of experience, letting none of it pass without interpretation and assimilation, a life full and satisfying – indeed a rival of the religious life.

It’s ironic, but until you can free those final monsters within the jungle of yourself, your life, your soul is up for grabs.

Now we’re living in a nuclear age, and the science that was supposed to be automatically for human welfare has become a nuclear – a science that gives us nuclear weapons. This is the ironic character of human history, and of human existence, which I can only explain, if I say so, in Biblical terms. Now I don’t mean by this reason that I will accept every interpretation of Christianity that’s derived from the Bible as many people wouldn’t accept my interpretation. But that’s what it means for me.

Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.

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!

A lot of my friends are club people. It’s not me. It’s funny to represent that, because it’s not me. I don’t fit into a gay club setting. It’s just ironic that I represent that somehow.

I think any good cartoon sums things up for people. It’s kind of ironic we appear on the editorial pages of newspapers, but now of course we’re transferring over to the net, and that gets a lot more attention.

It’s ironic how I drop some ‘DOUGH’ (Doh) when I got them Homer Simpsons.

It’s ironic. At last I have my freedom. But at a price. Now my destiny is mine to choose. – Stanley aka Nine

I’m easily persuaded that a really good novelist who gets inside somebody else’s head could be serving a valuable purpose. I enjoy satirical novels that take a wry, humorous, ironic look at modern life.

Isn’t it ironic that after 70 years Russia wants God back while we are trying to kick him out?