Best Ironic Quotes – Irony is part of life and without it, life would be significantly harder. What makes these ironic quotes so acid is the fact that they hide the awful truth. And sometimes, this truth should be taken with a pinch of salt.

Best Ironic quotes

“It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”
― Voltaire

“As soon as you stop wanting something, you get it.”
― Andy Warhol

“If you make people think they’re thinking, they’ll love you; but if you really make them think, they’ll hate you.”
― Harlan Ellison

“The irony of life is that those who wear masks often tell us more truths than those with open faces.”
― Marie Lu, The Rose Society

“Nobody steals books but your friends.”
― Roger Zelazny, The Guns of Avalon

“I’d kill for a Nobel Peace Prize.”
― Steven Wright

“You could write a book about things that you can’t find online.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Linger

“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, Maskerade

“There’s nothing wrong with giving up all your principles for a suitable financial reward. It is indeed the basis of our society.”
― Manny Rayner

“Give the People what they want – and they’ll get what they deserve.”
― The Kinks

“To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, “I wish I had known this some time ago.”
― Roger Zelazny, Sign of the Unicorn

“Irony is Fate’s most common figure of speech.”
― Trevanian, Shibumi

“If one cannot learn from the mistakes of others, one might as well become a Democrat.”
― Esther M. Friesner, My Big Fat Supernatural Wedding

“The worst mistake a writer can make is to assume everyone has an imagination.”
― Andrew McEwan

“War is always an adventure to those who’ve never seen it.”
― Anthony Ryan, Blood Song

“Even things that are true can be proved.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Who else but me is ever going to read these letters?”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

“The most dangerous irony is, people are angry with others because of their own incompetence.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“I’m not scared of death, I just don’t want to seek it out.”
― Tommy Higgins

“There is no greater cruelty than a genius stumbling over something idiotic.”
― Friedrich Dürrenmatt, The Pledge

“I would rather be an artist than a leader. Ironically, a leader has to follow the rules.”
― Criss Jami, Venus in Arms

“If time is money and you wasted my time, then give me back my money!”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land

These ironic quotes are meant to tell the truth and only the truth, using words of sarcasm, or better yet to prove the irony of life. If anything, life has proven to be ironical at all times.

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