Quotes and Sayings about Irony

"Really?"
"No. I'm being ironic. Or is it sarcastic? I can never remember."
"Irony's cleverer, so you're probably being sarcastic."

Jonathan Stroud in Lockwood & Co. - 1: The Screaming Staircase

Sarcasm

Sutton: "Great for Jane, but didn't we stop saying diva like two years ago?"
Kat: "Oh, we're back to saying it ironically."
Sutton: "Our generation is exhausting."

Sutton Brady-Hunter in The Bold Type

Old age is a wonderful source of irony.

Aemon Targaryen in Game of Thrones - Season 4 Episode 9

Age

I am known for my sense of irony but even I would not have come to think of putting a Statue of Liberty into the New York Harbour.

George Bernard Shaw

USA New York City

Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony.

Morpheus in The Matrix

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Leonard: "For God's sake, Sheldon, do I have to... hold up a sarcasm sign every time I open my mouth?"
Sheldon: "You have a sarcasm sign?"

Sheldon Cooper in The Big Bang Theory - Season 1 Episode 2

Sarcasm

What? Scott, come on. I'm 147 pounds of pale skin and fragile bone, okay? Sarcasm is my only defense.

Stiles Stilinski in Teen Wolf

Sarcasm

My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the World.

George Bernard Shaw

Truth Sarcasm

Sarcastic people tend to be marshmallows underneath the armor.

Stephen King in 11/22/63

Sarcasm

Ellie: "Did everyone have boats back then?"
Joel: "Yeah. I had a sixty foot yacht."
Ellie: "Really?"
Joel: "No."
Ellie: "Sarcasm... making progress."

Ellie Williams in The Last of Us

Sarcasm

CC: "When do you find out if you got into college early? I would really love to help you pack."
Wyatt: "I detect sarcasm, which is universally regarded as the lowest form of humor."

Family Switch

Sarcasm

People who can put on a serious face while joking are the scariest.

Shirou Emiya in Fate/stay night

Humor & Comedy Sarcasm

I don't appreciate your lack of sarcasm.

Louise Belcher in Bob's Burgers - Season 4 Episode 7

Sarcasm

You know what's never saved the planet? Your sarcasm.

Phastos in Eternals

Sarcasm

We are suffering from too much sarcasm.

Marianne Moore

Sarcasm

You know, they say sarcasm is a metric for potential. If that's true, you'll be a great man some day.

Howard Stark in Captain America - Civil War

Sarcasm

The most efficient form of birth control I know is spending the day with my kids.

Jill Bensley

Children & Childhood Sarcasm

If you can't laugh at yourself, life is going to seem a whole lot longer than you'd like.

Sam in Garden State

Laughing & Smile Humor & Comedy

He who can make people laugh has to be taken seriously; all people with power know that.

Werner Finck

Laughing & Smile Humor & Comedy Satire

If you can't make it better, you can laugh at it.

Erma Bombeck

Laughing & Smile Humor & Comedy

Nonsense wakes up the brain cells. And it helps develop a sense of humor, which is awfully important in this day and age.

Theodor Seuss Geisel

Humor & Comedy Craziness & Weirdness

There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.

Charles Dickens

Life Love Humor & Comedy

Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.

Langston Hughes

Summer Humor & Comedy Air

A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.

Roald Dahl

Humor & Comedy

My parents armed me with an amazing sense of humor, and it's what you need when, well, it's what anyone needs in this world.

Warwick Davis

Humor & Comedy

People confuse the subject of the joke with the target of the joke, and they're very rarely the same.

Ricky Gervais

Humor & Comedy

Humor is the truth; wit is an exaggeration of the truth.

Stan Laurel

Humor & Comedy

You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.

Jay Leno

Humor & Comedy

I don't like the bullying, do-one-over style of comedy. It's so cheap.

Olivia Colman

Humor & Comedy

Definition: What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

HK-47 in Star Wars Games - Knights of the Old Republic

Cynicism

The biggest hurdle that our communities have is cynicism - saying it's a done deal, who cares; there's no point to voting.

Alexandria Ocasio Cortez

Cynicism Elections & Voting

Cynicism, to me, is trying to make people as unhappy as you are.

Ricky Gervais

Cynicism

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

George Bernard Shaw

Cynicism

I hate cynicism - it's my least favorite quality and it doesn't lead anywhere.

Conan O'Brien

Cynicism

To be honest, adults are pretty useless. 'Cause of their lack of sensitivity. They just get in the way.

Lucy Carlyle in Lockwood & Co. - Season 1 Episode 1

"Well," Lockwood said, "if you judge success by the number of enemies you make, that was a highly successful evening."

Jonathan Stroud in Lockwood & Co. - 2: The Whispering Skull

I wanna be the girl you can't stop thinking about. I deserve to be that girl.

Sutton Brady-Hunter in The Bold Type

Sometimes when I'm sitting, I wish that I could be sitting harder.

Sutton Brady-Hunter in The Bold Type

Dave: "You're not our leader."
Lucy: "No, but I know what I'm doing, which is a nice alternative."

Jonathan Stroud in Lockwood & Co. - 4: The Creeping Shadow

Facing the truth is really important. Ultimately, the truth always makes us stronger.

Jacqueline Carlyle in The Bold Type

If we beheaded every ranger who laid with a girl, the Wall would be manned by headless men.

Aemon Targaryen in Game of Thrones - Season 4 Episode 1

All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in The Little Prince

Children & Childhood Birthday Age

You see things; and you say 'Why?"
But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?"

George Bernard Shaw

Dreaming Optimism Positive Quotes

If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America. They don’t care for human beings.

Nelson Mandela

USA

No wonder the city never sleeps, it's too busy trying to get laid.

Carrie Bradshaw in Sex And The City - Season 1 Episode 11

Sex New York City

Hope. It is the quintessential human delusion, simultaneously the source of your greatest strength and your greatest weakness.

The Architect in The Matrix - Reloaded

Hope

According to some, heroic deaths are admirable things. I've never been convinced by this argument, mainly because, no matter how cool, stylish, composed, unflappable, manly, or defiant you are, at the end of the day you're also dead. Which is a little too permanent for my liking.

Jonathan Stroud in Bartimaeus Sequence - 3: Ptolemy's Gate

Heros

Don't say "I'm sorry" when you have nothing to apologize for.

Jacqueline Carlyle in The Bold Type

Go in there with the confidence of an incredibly average white man.

Kat Edison in The Bold Type

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