1,034 Quotes About Irony

"But though it had prevailed against such fierce adversaries as fire and flood, it had fallen victim softly and swiftly to television in the 1960's."

"Sorry Elias, I can't hear you, there’s a door in the way."

"Voltaire expected that within fifty years of his lifetime there would not be one Bible in the world. His house is now a distribution centre for Bibles in many languages."

"I would die for you, my love—in old age."

"I don't trust men. They gave us the right to vote."

"The most dangerous irony is, people are angry with others because of their own incompetence."

"The newly-minted captain is told to let nothing stop him but to do nothing that would risk his ship or his crew."

"...I don't knowif it's better to be good at a bad job or bad at a good job,but there must be some kind of satisfactionin doing a job so poorly, you are never asked to do it again....I learned that I'd work any job this hard, achelike this to know that I could always ache for something.There's a hell for people like uswhere we shovel the coal we have mined ourselvesinto furnaces that burn the flesh from our bonesnightly, and we never miss a shift."

"Fathers are ironic, they want democracy in their country but dictatorship in their home."