Quotes About Irony

And suddenly, for the first time this day, we remembered that we are the damned. We remembered it, and we laughed.

The irony that they had come to the New World to escape an interfering civil authority was lost on the colonists, who unleashed on one another the kind of abuse they had deplored in royal officials.

Anyhow, the criterion of common sense was never applicable to the history of the human race. Averroës, Kant, Socrates, Newton, Voltaire, could any of them have believed it possible that in the twentieth century the scourge of cities, the poisoner of lungs, the mass murderer and idol of millions would be a metal receptacle on wheels, and that people would actually prefer being crushed to death inside it during frantic weekends exoduses instead of staying, safe and sound, at home?

He assumed a manner that could be called circular irony. Everything he said, he said in quotes, with an artificial, exaggerated emphasis, and with the elocution of someone playing a succession of improvised, ad hoc roles. Therefore, whoever did not know him long and well was confounded, for it seemed impossible ever to tell what the man thought true and what false, and when he was speaking seriously and when he was merely amusing himself with words.

Passiamo metà della vita a deridere ciò in cui altri credono, e l'altra metà a credere in ciò che altri deridono.

Voglio dormire fino alla morte, magari di qualcun altro

The point is not to abandon all institutions and dogmas but to find a way to live with them more ironically, to appreciate them for what they are—the play of the human mind in its endless quest for connection and meaning—rather than timeless entities that have to be ruthlessly defended or forcibly imposed.

This is the way I think the world will end—with general giggling by all the witty heads, who think it is a joke.' Kierkegaard.

Verrazzano must have been turning in his grave. (Except that he didn't have one because he'd been eaten.)

If you're saying farewell to your arms, what do you use to wave goodbye?

He saw that it was an ironical thing for him to be running thus toward that which he had been at such pains to avoid.

It is perhaps the consummate irony," Arthur Moore writes, "that at each step up from savagery the human race has regarded the fruits of progress with a degree of misgiving and often longed against reason for a return to a simpler condition.

There is an irony here. MacArthur, the most political of generals, never succeeded in politics, while three of the most apolitical generals in American history, Washington, Grant, and Eisenhower, did.

It is a cliché that most clichés are true, but then like most clichés, that cliché is untrue

I'm far too intelligent to be brave, thank you very much.

Fighting for peace, is like f***ing for chastity

I used to work for this guy before I came here...He used to tell me that 'never' is the word God listens for when he needs a laugh.

He had come to believe that life was a series of ironic ambushes.

Hodges remembers an old saying: even on the darkest day, the sun shines on some dog's ass.

Luck was a joke. Even good luck was just bad luck with its hair combed.

It's the world's smallest violin, playing 'My Heart Pumps Purple Piss for You'.

I hope he died of intestinal cancer in a part of the world where morphine is as of yet undiscovered.

Oh Christ, I left my world to watch a kid put shoes on a fucked-up weasel. Shoot me Roland, before I breed.

Maybe that was strange. Maybe it was sad. Maybe it was what literary types called irony.