Quotes About Irony

I find heartbreaking stuff really funny.

To take my work seriously would be the height of folly.

I'm not a fan of self-help books - how can something be 'self-help' if the book itself is purportedly helping you?

As a drummer, I'm rhythmically so disabled that it's hilarious.

It's hilarious to see guys wearing a headband with 'I'm a Hugger' on it.

Life is as horrifyingly frightening as it is hilarious.

Birth was the death of him.

The aim of the joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.

I have managed to make the Capitalist class pay me several pounds a week for writing books against Capitalism.

Tanr? bana sinekleri kovay?m diye bir kuyruk vermi?; ama ke?ke sinekler de olmasayd?, kuyru?um da.

Raras vezes falava, e em geral quando o fazia era para emitir uma observação cínica — para dizer, por exemplo, que Deus lhe dera uma cauda para espantar as moscas, e no entanto seria mais do seu agrado não ter nem a cauda nem as moscas.

for instance, he would say that god had given him a tail to keep the flies off, but that he would sooner have had no tail and no flies.

How could you have a slogan like freedom is slavery when the concept of freedom had been abolished

Incluso los nombres de los cuatro ministerios que los gobiernan revelan un gran descaro al tergiversar deliberadamente los hechos. El Ministerio de la Paz se ocupa de la guerra; el Ministerio de la Verdad, de las mentiras; el Ministerio del Amor, de la tortura, y el Ministerio de la Abundancia, del hambre.

Irony is just honesty with the volume cranked up.

I say it must have been great to grow up when men were men. He says men have always been what the are now, namely incapable of coping with life without the intervention of God the Almighty. Then in the oven behind him my pizza starts smoking and he says case in point.

I find it a marvellous circumstance, cousin, that no one has yet strangled you!

Sadness is the matrix from which wit and irony spring; sadness is uncomfortable and creative, which is why consumer society cannot tolerate it.

Art is the easiest thing in my life, and that's ironic. It doesn't mean I've worked little on it, but it's the only thing I never had to... I have no fear. I could take risks.

It's ironic that while I was a worker in Detroit, which I left when I was twenty six, my sense was that the thing that's going to stop me from being a poet is the fact that I'm doing this crummy work.

It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you.

Unfortunately, we are a society that does look down on divorce when, ironically, there are more single divorced people in the world right now. So, the fact of the matter is that it's a reality, and more people should obviously embrace wanting to change, wanting to move on from a relationship that just no longer works for them.

It is one of the ironies of the ministry that the very man who works in God's name is often hardest put to find time for God. The parents of Jesus lost Him at church, and they were not the last ones to lose Him there.

That saying, about how you always kill the thing you love, well, it works both ways.