Ironic Quotes - Page 2

People who didn't need people needed people around to know that they were the kind of people who didn't need people.

Terry Pratchett

We were talking about the prince,' Sansa said, her voice soft as a kiss.Arya knew which prince she meant: Joffrey, of course. The tall, handsome one. Sansa got to sit with him at the feast. Arya had to sit with the little fat one. Naturally.

George R.R. Martin

I was making pancakes the other day and a fly flew into the kitchen. And that's when I realized that a spatula is a lot like a fly swatter. And a crushed fly is a lot like a blueberry. And a roommate is a lot like a fly eater.

And it's really very difficult to kill someone when all your inner instincts would oblige you to take off your hat first!

Susan Kay

-"He loved her...It was noble of him. It was beautiful."-"It was stupid.

Lloyd Alexander

If anything attacked us, we could just panic at it until it went away.

Shouldn't someone give a pep talk or something?' Minho asked..."Go ahead," Newt replied.Minho nodded and faced the crowd. 'Be careful,' he said dryly. 'Don't die.'Thomas would have laughed if he could, but he was too scared for it to come out.'Great. We're all bloody inspired,' Newt answered.

I'm bad and I'm going to hell, and I don't care. I'd rather be in hell than anywhere where you are.

William Faulkner

Pure wisdom is the 'fruit of life' banal platitudes are the 'bane of existence'.

sometimes when everything seems atits worstwhen all conspiresand gnawsand the hours, days, weeksyearsseem wasted – stretched there upon my bedin the darklooking upward at the ceilingi get what many will consider anobnoxious thought:it’s still nice to beBukowski.

Charles Bukowski

They would sweep their poverty under the carpet if only they had one.

Ljupka Cvetanova

Famine sometimes increases the number of people who are overweight.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

It was the essence of life to disbelieve in death for one's self, to act as if life would continue forever. And life had to act also as if little issues were big ones. To take a realistic attitude toward life and death meant that one lapsed into unreality. Into insanity. It was ironic that the only way to keep one's sanity was to ignore that one was in an insane world or to act as if the world were sane.

Philip José Farmer

The most dangerous irony is, people are angry with others because of their own incompetence.

Cam's wings were so bright they were almost blinding as they pulsed. "Holy Hell," Callie whispered, blinking."More or less," Arriane said

What is your advice to young writers?” “Drink, fuck and smoke plenty of cigarettes.

Charles Bukowski

And a beautiful world we live in, when it is possible, and when many other such things are possible, and not only possible, but done-- done, see you!-- under that sky there, every day.

Charles Dickens

Two wrongs don't make a right, but don't three lefts make a right? Two wrongs don't make a right, but don't two negatives make a positive?

Andrew Clements