151 Ironic Quotes from Movies (+ Sound Clips) - page 15

Updated: Jan 6, 2026

A selection of ironic quotes with sound bites from famous or less known movies, as rated by our visitors, accompanied by short MP3 or WAV audio samples.

141 My father had a thriving undertaking business until you proceeded to get ahold of it and run it into the ground!

Quote from The Comedy of Terrors

142 He was very good, but he was evil. He preferred a life of luxury, to cheat and steal.

Quote from The Woman Avenger (1980)

143 Who is the greatest man in America today? -Gee, I don't know. The space man, I guess.

Michael Rennie as Klaatu in The Day the Earth Stood Still (1954)

144 Oh! Oh! Oh! -What's the matter? -Oh, nothing. Nothing much. My head just fell off, that's all.

Roland Young as Uncle Willie in The Philadelphia Story (1940)

145 I'm going fast. Give me a cigarette. -A cigarette? You know what Dr. Murphy told you about smoking.

Tom Ewell as Richard Sherman; Evelyn Keyes as Helen Sherman in The Seven Year Itch (1952)

146 Well, if it's in the papers, it must be true. They wouldn't print a lie.

Carol Burnett as Mollie Malloy in The Front Page (1974)

147 The lunatic's the only one who makes sense. He said something went wrong. It certainly did.

Humphrey Bogart as Dist. Atty. Martin Ferguson in The Enforcer (1951)

148 Definition of a scientist: A man who understood nothing, until there was nothing left to understand.

Quote from The Omega Man (1971)

149 Life's a fragile thing, Harr. One minute you're chewing on a burger, the next minute you're dead meat.

Jim Carrey as Lloyd Christmas in Dumb and Dumber

150 You may as well ask a committee of the Mothers' Union to organize a war campaign.

Quote from The Remains of the Day