Quotes: Irony

There is not much irony when people are being happy on screen.

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.

The irony here is this administration is spending more money on climate change research and development than any administration in all the rest of the industrialized world combined.

The irony of the Supreme Court hearing on these cases last week and of the outright hostility that the Court has displayed against religion in recent years is that above the head of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court is a concrete display of the Ten Commandments.

My book has a very simple surface, but there are layers of irony and paradox all the way through it.

But the irony is that because the band isn’t the focus any more, it allows me the chance to enjoy being a member of Def Leppard much more.

Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.

Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge.

The irony of that is, what makes it kind of ironic, is when you do become successful as a professional athlete in particular, a lot of the young children who are emulating these stars do have a different perspective.

We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars.