Quotes about Irony
I think life is perverse. It can be beautiful, but it won't.
— Lily Tomlin
It strikes me as somewhat odd that the people who use God's name most frequently, both in life and in literature, usually don't believe in him.
— Madeleine L'Engle
The faults of the burglar are the qulaities of the financier.
— George Bernard Shaw
It is sometimes fortunate, that the means which are taken to produce certain effects upon the mind have a tendency directly opposite to what is expected.
— Maria Edgeworth
Ironic that those most holy are least likely to see themselves that way.
— Mark Buchanan
Irony and disproportion are all God's way. He keeps us off balance with his unpredictable connections. We think we know how to do something big, and God makes it small. We think that all we have is weak and small, and God makes it big.
— John Piper
To be hated cordially, is only a left-handed compliment.
— Herman Melville
It is one of the ironies of the ministry that the very man who works in God's name is often hardest put to find time for God. The parents of Jesus lost Him at church, and they were not the last ones to lose Him there.
— Vance Havner
In Shakespeare's plays, the mourner hastening to bury his friend is all the time colliding with the reveller hastening to his wine.
— Samuel Johnson
To place man properly at the present time, he stands somewhere between the angels and the French.
— Mark Twain
The source of all humor is not laughter, but sorrow.
— Mark Twain
Well, there are times when one would like to hang the whole human race and finish the farce.
— Mark Twain