Ironic

Famous quotes containing the word ironic:

“It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from our creator—our very self-consciousness—is also the one thing that divides us from our fellow creatures. It was a bitter birthday present from evolution.”
—Annie Dillard (b. 1945)

“After ages of bombast, the rhetoric of virtue has become ironic and shy.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“The surest sign that two people no longer speak the same language is that both say ironic things to one another but that neither senses the irony.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)