(230 quotes found)
“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”
William Somerset Maugham
“A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself”
Jessamyn West
“Do not question the Genius of my stupidity!”
Gemimah S. Colliwald Cornilia*
“The Academy Awards ceremony is designed to be without irony, but Chris Rock supplied it anyway with filmed movie-theater interviews with black men and women who had never heard of the movies nominated for Best Picture.”
Suzanne Fields
“The irony upon irony of this lawsuit was great. First, Fox having the trademark 'fair and balanced' -- a network which is anything but fair and balanced. Then there's the irony of a news organization trying to suppress free speech.”
Al Franken
“A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.”
Ellen Glasgow
“Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it”
Charles Lamb
“You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.”
Anne Lamott
“Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.”
Bill Nye
“We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars.”
Anatole Broyard
