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Irony Quotes

The best way to whack your imagination is to go through an ironical piece and try and decipher the real meaning behind it. Irony being the most favorite rhetoric tool of expression, gives a deeper level of meaning to any text. Particularly when you talk about the funny and naughty incidences, irony works out very well with different layers of meanings hidden in it. In the world of quotes and sayings, irony or sarcasm acts to spice up its import. Here are some famous sarcasm quotations & sayings to make you enjoy the real essence of the words.

H. P. Lovecraft

From even the greatest of horrors, irony is seldom absent.

H. P. Lovecraft
Soren Kierkegaard

How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

Men Opinion Paradox Sarcasm
Soren Kierkegaard
Adolf Hitler

How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think.

Funny People Sarcasm Satire
Adolf Hitler
Thomas Paine

It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes.

Bible Opinion Belief Acting
Thomas Paine
Patrick Jake O'Rourke

The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person.

Appearance Paradox Perception Satire
Patrick Jake O'Rourke
Adolf Hitler

Humanitarianism is the expression of stupidity and cowardice.

Attitude Ridicule Satire Criticism
Adolf Hitler
Thomas More

The light, that lies In woman's eyes, Has been my heart's undoing.

Disgrace Defeat Demolition Success
Thomas More
John Greenleaf Whittier

Tradition wears a snowy beard, romance is always young.

Romance Ridicule Sarcasm Satire
John Greenleaf Whittier
Thomas Paine

One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.

Good Teacher’s Day Practice Purity
Thomas Paine
Franklin P. Jones

All women should know how to take care of children. Most of them will have a husband some day.

Baby Funny Wedding Concerned
Franklin P. Jones
Soren Kierkegaard

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

Love Acceptance Advice Opinion
Soren Kierkegaard
Franklin P. Jones

An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory.

Nothing Right Sarcasm Satire
Franklin P. Jones
Malcolm X

Truth is on the side of the oppressed.

Domination Pollution Sarcasm Satire
Malcolm X
Thomas Hobbes

The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only.

Life Meaningful Reason Sarcasm
Thomas Hobbes
David Lloyd George

You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.

Advice Paradox Satire Contradiction
David Lloyd George
Saint Thomas Aquinas

Love must precede hatred, and nothing is hated save through being contrary to a suitable thing which is loved. And hence it is that every hatred is caused by love

Love Necessity Opinion Belief
Saint Thomas Aquinas
Soren Kierkegaard

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Wedding Comparisons Satire Contradiction
Soren Kierkegaard
Thomas Jefferson

I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.

Friendship Opinion Pollution Corruption
Thomas Jefferson
Adolf Hitler

If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.

Attitude Belief Confidence Sarcasm
Adolf Hitler
Thomas Jefferson

It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.

Belief Sarcasm Satire Fulfillment
Thomas Jefferson
Frederick Douglass

At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.

Time
Frederick Douglass
Anatole France

Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.

Reflection Wisdom Excitement
Anatole France
Charles Lamb

Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it.

Charles Lamb
Isla Fisher

Am I disappointed occasionally by the lack of irony in some movies? Yes.

Movies
Isla Fisher
Ridley Scott

Everyone is tearing each other apart in the name of their personal god. And the irony is, by definition, they're probably worshiping the same god.

God
Ridley Scott
Charles Baudelaire

Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony.

Literary
Charles Baudelaire

And they kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month at even in the wilderness of Sinai: according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so did the children of Israel.

Passover God Information Christ
Anonymous

And it came to pass, when Jesus had finished all these sayings, he said unto his disciples, Ye know that after two days is the feast of the passover, and the Son of man is betrayed to be crucified.

Sadness Passover Disloyalty Festivity
Anonymous

He was assigned a grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death, though he had done no violence, nor was any deceit in his mouth.

Bible Death Passover Violence
Anonymous

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Love Relationship Teen Love Truth
Anonymous