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"I have a business appointment that I am anxious... to miss."

"Certainly it constitutes bad news when the people who agree with you are buggier than batshit."

"A peaceful refuge in which to rediscover each other, we thought,, not realizing that, while golf and fishing are Scotland's most popular outdoor sports, gossip is the most popular indoor sport."

"Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles."

"Bless you with the curse to remain busy always."

"You're right, my problems are the biggest problems ever," George said. "No, honestly, it's horrible to be me. I'm rich, talented, and I make girls cry.""How do you make girls cry, exactly?"George turned to her. His blue eyes widened. His lovely face took on a forlorn, deeply troubled expression. He leaned forward, and, in a theatrical whisper, said, "My past is tragic. I wouldn't want to burden you with it. It's a pain I must suffer alone. In the rain. In silence."

"I think this goes more to the idea of 'relentless irony' than 'divine providence."
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"Many people who are in reality dead are walking in the streets, many who are in their graves are in reality alive."


"Hazrat Ali, in a saying attributed to him, says: 'Man is in disguise, covered by his tongue'."


"If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken."
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