1,034 Quotes About Irony

Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.

That's the beautiful thing about innocence; even monsters have a pocketful of childhood memories with which to seek comfort with.

I quote others only in order the better to express myself.

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

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.

What do you think the Order is going to do?" he asks. "Help us open a door to Hell, if we're lucky," I reply. Lucky. Ha ha. The irony.

She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well−informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would always wish to avoid. A woman especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

With every mistake, we must surely be learning.

It is sometimes easier to be happy if you don't know everything.