Top Ironical Quotes & Sayings

Whoever is writing in the United States is using the American Dream as an ironical pole of his story. People elsewhere tend to accept, to a far greater degree anyway, that the conditions of life are hostile to mans pretensions.

Arthur Miller

#Hostile #Mans #American dream #American Dream #Ironical #Pretensions

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

#Chinese #Humorous #Mysterious #Legendary #Inscrutable #Ironical

When the first settlers landed on American shores, the difficulties in finding or making shelter must have seemed ironical as well as almost unbearable.

Alice Morse Earle

#Shelter #Ironical

At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure.

Seamus Heaney

#Home #Habit #Authority #Attitude #Avoidance #Ironical

“Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.”

Albert Einstein

#Attention #Get #Gets #Inspiration #Ironical #Luck #Motivation #Nothing #One #Pay #Pays #Philosophical #Thing #Verdensdemokraterne #Inspire #Negotiation

“Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.”

William Somerset Maugham

#Comfort #Freedom #Will #Ease #Ironical

“Great Salt Lake is an ironical joke of nature - water that is itself more desert than a desert.”

Dale Morgan

#Desert #Ironical #Itself #Joke #Lake #Nature #Salt #Water

There was a time when one looked over one's shoulder with an ironical smile at the photographer and when photography as a profession seemed almost invariably a target for ridicule. That time is now over.

Albert Renger-Patzsch

#Target #Ridicule #Photographer #Ironical

The surest sign of the estrangement of the opinions of two persons is when they both say something ironical to each other and neither of them feels the irony.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#Opinions #Irony #Ironical

You ought to be ironical the minute you get out of bed. You ought to wake up with your mouth full of pity.

Ernest Hemingway

#Bed #Wake Up #Ironical #Wake Up!

Marvin started his ironical humming again. Zaphod hit him and he shut up.

Douglas Adams

#Started #Ironical

We are these people, wistful, ironical, wilful, who have no part in new-world reconstruction, in the confederacy of labour.

Hilda Doolittle

#New World #Labour #Ironical

He saw that it was an ironical thing for him to be running thus toward that which he had been at such pains to avoid.

Stephen Crane

#Thus #Toward #Ironical

It is ironical that in an age when we have prided ourselves on our progress in the intelligent care and teaching of children we have at the same time put them at the mercy of new and most terrible weapons of destruction.

Pearl S. Buck

#Ironical

Shuttles in the rocking loom of history, the dark ships move, the dark ships move, their bright ironical names like jests of kindness on a murderer's mouth

Robert Hayden

#Rocking #Ships #Move On #Murderer #On The Move #Ironical

No one, evidently, except me has found "No Alarms" poem ironical that an obsessive theme in my writing was - and has continued to be - not being able to write.

Shirley Geok-lin Lim

#Obsessive #Ironical

How ironical that it is by means of speech that man can degrade himself below the level of dumb creation -- for a chatterbox is truly of a lower category than a dumb creature.

Soren Kierkegaard

#Category #Ironical