“ Mocking the air with colours idly spread. - King John. Act v. Sc. 1. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ The fates are not quite obdurate; they have a grim, sardonic way of granting them who supplicate the thing they wanted yesterday. ”
- Roselle Mercier Montgomery- Copy
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“ When I was a boy, unconsciously, spontaneously I learned the art of telling ironic stories. ”
- Dario Fo- Copy
- 3.9K
“ "When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone. "It means just what I choose it to mean - neither more or less." "The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things… ”
- Lewis Carroll- Copy
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“ How ironic that in the United States — where freedom and innovation are core values — these regulators are trying to punish an American company that has worked hard and successfully to deliver on these values. ”
- Bill Gates- Copy
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“ If the allegations brought forward by the whistleblowers are correct, they represent both a security threat and a waste of taxpayer dollars. It would be ironic, to say the least, if DHS were unable to secure its own headquarters. ”
- Byron Dorgan- Copy
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“ It is ironic that the United States should have been founded by intellectuals, for throughout most of our political history, the intellectual has been for the most part either an outsider, a servant or a scapegoat. ”
- Richard Hofstadter- Copy
- 3.6K
“ It's ironic that at age 32, at probably the greatest moment of my career, with The Godfather having such an enormous success, I wasn't even aware of it, because I was somewhere else under the deadline again. ”
- Francis Ford Coppola- Copy
- 2K
“ Journalism is a good place for any writer to start — the retailing of fact is always a useful trade and can it help you learn to appreciate the declarative sentence. A young writer is easily tempted by the allusive and ethereal and ironic and reflective, but the declarative is at the bottom of most good writing. ”
- Garrison Keillor- Copy
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“ This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one. ”
- Arthur C. Clarke- Copy
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“ I am interested, too, in satirical theater, in the grotesque, or even in tragedy at times, but I am mostly comfortable with comedy. ”
- Dario Fo- Copy
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“ Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets. ”
- W. Somerset Maugham- Copy
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“ It is the height of absurdity to sow little but weeds in the first half of one's lifetime and expect to harvest a valuable crop in the second half. ”
- Percy H. Johnston- Copy
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“ America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious; and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese. ”
- David Riesman- Copy
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“ It's ironic that in our culture everyone's biggest complaint is about not having enough time; yet nothing terrifies us more than the thought of eternity. ”
- Dennis Miller- Copy
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“ It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way. ”
- Rollo May- Copy
- 3.7K
“ For a while, it was this sleepy little happening on campus, but within the last 18 months, we've seen much more interest on the part of publishers. ”
- Mary Stuart- Copy
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“ Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility. ”
- Errol Morris- Copy
- 3K
“ What is ironic is that equating Zionism with Jewishness, is adopting the very tactic favoured by anti-semites. ”
- Judith Butler- Copy
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“ I just really don't like being the center of attention that much. It's kind of ironic. ”
- Jimmy Fallon- Copy
- 2.1K
“ MAC gave me 55 lipsticks to test. These are the same lipsticks I got caught stealing by the police when I was 15. How ironic. ”
- Eddie Izzard- Copy
- 656
“ Everything is ironic to me. There are moments I find hysterical, but I'm probably the only one who would find that, except for a few people. ”
- River Phoenix- Copy
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“ Most well-known serial killers have victims numbering in the dozens, have sent taunting letters to the police or have done bizarre things to the bodies. ”
- Pat Brown- Copy
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“ It is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shouting at you. ”
- Woodrow T. Wilson- Copy
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“ Men are more satirical from vanity than from malice. ”
- Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld- Copy
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“ There is much difference between imitating a man and counterfeiting him. ”
- Benjamin Franklin- Copy
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