70 Oxymoron Quotes

Following is our list of the most famous oxymoron quotations and slogans. We've compiled this selection of inspirational oxymoron quotes. Hopefully, these oxymoron quotes will keep you motivated not only during hard times but to expand your oxymoron knowledge!

Famous Oxymoron Quotes

There's nothing more ironic or contradictory than life itself. — Robert De Niro

Paradoxical, things that seem obvious, broad consensus — Howard Marks

True words seem false. — Lao Tzu

It’s a contradiction that we all deal with. — Naval Ravikant

Irony is the hygiene of the mind. — Elizabeth Bibesco

Life is full of paradoxes, as roses are of thorns. — Fernando Pessoa

Life is that perfect fine line between ironies. — Serj Tankian

How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress. — Niels Bohr

Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Every single word you have spoken is sharp, sarcastic and twisted. When I thought you were abnormal you suddenly turned out to be normal. When I thought you were normal you turned out to be abnormal. — Jae Hee

In a world that has REALLY been turned on its head, truth is a moment of falsehood. — Guy Debord

I'll just take amusement at being a paradox. — Burgess Meredith

Hypocrisy is the audacity to preach integrity from a den of corruption. — Wes Fesler

Nothing is wholly obvious without becoming enigmatic. Reality itself is too obvious to be true . — Jean Baudrillard

I’m almost never serious, and I’m always too serious. Too deep, too shallow. Too sensitive, too cold hearted. I’m like a collection of paradoxes. — Ferdinand De Saussure

Short Oxymoron Quotes

• I always advise people never to give advice. — P. G. Wodehouse
• Sex and older women used to be considered an oxymoron, rarely mentioned in the same breath. — Gail Sheehy
• We learn from history that man can never learn anything from history. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
• A cautious creative is an oxymoron. — George Lois
• That's the Senate Ethics Committee, an oxymoron since 1973. — Jon Stewart
• Being both entrepreneurial and social is no longer an oxymoron, but rather a tautology. — Jeremy Rifkin
• The budget was unlimited, but I exceeded it. — Donald Trump
• The phrase 'domestic cat' is an oxymoron. — George Will
• Of course a politician's promise isn't worth the paper it's written on. — Russell Pearce
• Correct thinkers think that 'baseball trivia' is an oxymoron: nothing about baseball is trivial. — George Will

People Writing About Oxymoron

Name	Quotes	Likes
George Will quotes on baseball	242	1042
Robert De Niro	91	816
Howard Marks quotes on cycle, risk and investing	117	1
Lao Tzu quotes on balance, life and leadership	1418	11725
Naval Ravikant quotes on money, happiness and life	583	1
Elizabeth Bibesco quotes on education, life and leadership	28	241

More Oxymoron Quotes

Time management is an oxymoron. Time is beyond our control, and the clock keeps ticking regardless of how we lead our lives. Priority management is the answer to maximizing the time we have. — John C. Maxwell

The whole notion of passwords is based on an oxymoron. The idea is to have a random string that is easy to remember. Unfortunately, if it's easy to remember, it's something nonrandom like 'Susan.' And if it's random, like 'r7U2*Qnp,' then it's not easy to remember. — Bruce Schneier

The concept of an inactive church member is an oxymoron. Biblically, no such church member really exists. — Thom S. Rainer

And I have a really great agent and I know it's almost an oxymoron to say you have a smart agent. But she is and she has a beautiful aesthetic and she has guided me. — Patricia Clarkson

As I see it, a lukewarm Christian is an oxymoron; there is no such thing. To put it plainly, churchgoers who are 'lukewarm' are not Christians. We will not see them in heaven. — Francis Chan

Many 'hard' scientists regard the term 'social science' as an oxymoron. Science means hypotheses you can test, and prove or disprove. Social science is little more than observation putting on airs. — Michael Kinsley

The term 'serious actor' is kind of an oxymoron, isn't it? Like 'Republican party' or 'airplane food.' — Johnny Depp

I guess I'm a spiritual secularist, if that's not an oxymoron. My paths of secularism and spirituality are the same: I try to do the appropriate thing at each moment. — Paul Krassner

I am not going to say I told you so, but I did. — Nouriel Roubini

'Feminist comedy,' practically an oxymoron, had a couple of good years after WWII. Chalk it up to the forced female autonomy that occurred during wartime, when Rosie the Riveter went to work in the factories, constructing the Allies' war machines while taking charge of the finances, the home, and the children. — Grace Slick

Tell them to stand closer apart. — Samuel Goldwyn

An honest politician is an oxymoron. — Mark Twain

A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to. — Banksy

I find the term perfect child to be an oxymoron. — Barbara Park

An ideal and flawless freedom, "complete freedom", enabling without disabling, is I believe an oxymoron in metaphysics as much as it is an unreachable goal in social life. — Zygmunt Bauman

An oxymoron? What's that? A moron who studies at Oxford? — Johnny Carson

I hate people but I love gatherings. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

In terms of the romantic kind of lead, I just never enjoy those movies very much. Maybe they'll come to interest me more as I get older. I doubt it, but maybe. Romantic comedies tend to be, for me, an oxymoron. — Christian Bale

I've been saying in the press that being a NY Post investigator reporter is an oxymoron. — Joe Pantoliano

I think the term "Kantian constructivism" as an oxymoron. Kant was a constructivist about mathematics, but not about ethics. — Allen W. Wood

Why don't you pair'em up in threes? — Yogi Berra

I personally think intellectual property is an oxymoron. Physical objects have a completely different natural economy than intellectual goods. It's a tricky thing to try to own something that remains in your possession even after you give it to many others. — John Perry Barlow

The very term 'combinatorial methods' has an oxymoronic character. — Joel Spencer

Placing "amicable" and "separation" together creates an oxymoron - we don't usually decide to end a partnership until the very sight of our soon-to-be ex fills us with disgust, misery, agony or a combination of all three. — Mariella Frostrup

I take it that a successful therapy is an oxymoron. — Harold Bloom

It behooves us to avoid archaisms. Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do. — William Safire

Since 1920, the vast increase in welfare beneficiaries and the extension of the franchise to women - two constituencies that are notoriously tough for libertarians - have rendered the notion of "capitalist democracy" into an oxymoron. — Peter Thiel

instant opinion is an oxymoron. You don't get real opinions in an instant. You get reactions. — Ellen Goodman

I learned why 'out riding alone' is an oxymoron: An equestrian is never alone, is always sensing the other being, the mysterious but also understandable living being that is the horse. — Jane Smiley

Independent film is not only an oxymoron; it doesn't exist anymore. — Martha Plimpton

Robert Torricelli, a powerful fund-raiser who helped raise more than $100 million for the Democratic party, took inappropriate gifts from a businessman, including an $8,000 gold Rolex watch, for which he was severely admonished by the Senate Ethics Committee in July. To recap: raising $100 million in contributions from gigantic corporations - ethical; taking a watch - unethical. That's the Senate Ethics Committee, an oxymoron since 1974. — Jon Stewart

First, I have the privilege of being Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. It is not an oxymoron I assure you. — Pat Roberts

Why would one's identity be a matter of feelings? I think that that's a misuse of terms, philosophically. Identity is mind independent. It's something that is objective, regardless of how you feel. So, the term gender identity seems to me to be something of an oxymoron. It's not really about one's identity. It's rather a matter of one's self-perception or one's feelings about oneself. — William Lane Craig

Only a loving and covenant-making personal God can provide humans with unique dignity, worth, and rights. Blind nature cannot do that. So, for the Christian, "secular humanism" is an oxymoron. — Roger E. Olson

So when my critics say that Sassy is only for alienated teenagers, I feel like responding, 'Well, isn't an unalienated teenager the biggest oxymoron?' — Jane Pratt

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