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Quotes About Irony

He had come to believe that life was a series of ironic ambushes. - Doctor Sleep
~ Stephen King
Your Plan and the stuff that comes out of my asshole bear a suspicious resemblance to each other.
~ Stephen King
In the world we live in, you will be warned ironically when you kill yourself, but will be killed literally when you heal yourself
~ Goitsemang Mvula
If I'll be funnier than this, I'll become a joke.
~ Chandan Sharma
My wife and I were happy for 20 years. Then we met.
~ Rodney Dangerfield
There's 2 things I love in this world: Burritos and Murder
~ Aaron Hernandez
If the Ego is hateful, Love your neighbor as yourself becomes a cruel irony.
~ Paul Valery
I love playing people who don't have a sense of humor for instance, there's nothing funnier to me than a person with no sense of humor.
~ Rita Moreno
Next thing you know, the hoe starts to ill, She says "I love you, Harold" and your name is Will!
~ Slick Rick
Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?
~ Albert Einstein
I have wit in my work and a sense of humor, but I do not use irony in any way.
~ John Zorn
I knew a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself.
~ Johnny Carson
If life was fair, Elvis would be alive, and all the impersonators would be dead.
~ Johnny Carson
I was ecstatic when they re-named "French fries" as "freedom fries." Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots.
~ Johnny Depp
A whirl of thick flakes emerged from an irony-grey infinity, almost obscuring Granta House.
~ Jojo Moyes
Success is always less funny than failure.
~ Jon Ronson
The KKK adopted a highway. The joke is on them: It's black.
~ Jon Stewart
I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land.
~ Jon Stewart
To have not shot his friend in the face would have sent a message to the quail that America is weak.
~ Jon Stewart
Me parece irónico que los liberales acepten a Darwin y rechacen el -diseño inteligente- como la explicación del diseño y la adaptación en el mundo natural, pero no aceptan a Adam Smith como la explicación del diseño y la adaptación en el mundo económico. Algunos países a veces prefieren el -diseño inteligente- de las economías socialistas, que en ocasiones suele acabar en desastre desde un punto de vista utilitarista.
~ Jonathan Haidt
There is a special pleasure in the irony of a moralist brought down for the very moral failings he has condemned. It's the pleasure of a well-told joke. Some jokes are funny as one-liners, but most require three verses: three guys, say, who walk into a bar one at a time, or a priest, a minister, and a rabbi in a lifeboat. The first two set the pattern, and the third violates it. With hypocrisy, the hypocrite's preaching is the setup, the hypocritical action is the punch line.
~ Jonathan Haidt
like a party hat at a funeral.
~ Jonathan Kellerman
Life has a funny way of turning you into the one thing you don't want to be.
~ Jonathan Levine
But then he decided it wasn't an irony, it was merely the broken gears of time, or the way life can feed you when you're full (youth) and starve you when you're hungry (midlife).
~ Jonathan Miles