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Quotes About Irony

Housework, if you do it right, will kill you.
~ Erma Bombeck
I guess what I always found funny was the human condition.
~ John Prine
If you examine any aspect of the human condition long enough, you really do have to start laughing at it. Because the business of being human is kind of ridiculous.
~ Justin Simien
I think I'm more of an absurdist than a satirist. I think I'm more of a - humanist? I hate to say it!
~ Mike White
I'm famously humble.
~ Jon Lovett
With Ricky Gervais, it's all shades of wrong, it's my kind of humor.
~ Emily Blunt
Believe it or not, there's a lot of humor in 'Mad Men.' Especially in the dark moments.
~ Matthew Weiner
You've got to have a sense of humour about sex. When you look at it, it's all pretty ridiculous, isn't it?
~ Cat Deeley
I like someone with a really good and dark sense of humour.
~ Paloma Faith
I have quite a dry sense of humour. It comes out when I'm feeling nervous.
~ Phoebe Fox
The maimings of love are endlessly funny....
~ Gilbert Sorrentino
Ironic people always dissolve when confronted with earnestness, it's their kryptonite
~ Gillian Flynn
We named the bar The Bar. People will think we're ironic instead of creatively bankrupt, my sister reasoned. Yes, we thought we were being clever New Yorkers - that the name was a joke no one else would really get, like we did. Not meta-get ... But our first customer, a gray-haired woman in bifocals and a pink jogging suit, said, I like the name. Like in Breakfast at Tiffany's and Audrey Hepburn's cat was named Cat.
~ Gillian Flynn
Dorothy has one of those kitten-in-a-tree posters-- Hang in There! She posts her poster with all sincerity. I like to picture her running into some self-impressed Williamsburg bitch, all Bettie Page bangs and pointy glasses who owns the same poster ironically. I'd like to listen to them try to negotiate each other. Ironic people always dissolve when confronted with earnestness. It's their Kryptonite.
~ Gillian Flynn
He wears his cockiness like an ironic T-shirt, but it fits him better.
~ Gillian Flynn
Ironic people always dissolve when confronted with earnestness, it's their kryptonite.
~ Gillian Flynn
Ironic people always dissolve when confronted with earnestness, it's their kryptonite. Dorothy
~ Gillian Flynn
He was a good man," she said, dullness with an obligatory injection of empathy. "No, he wasn't," I said, and she laughed like she clearly hadn't in a month.
~ Gillian Flynn
What an idiot. I love it.
~ Gillian Flynn
Los irónicos siempre se deshacen cuando se ven confrontados con la más absoluta sinceridad, es su kriptonita.
~ Gillian Flynn
It's humbling, to become the very thing you once mocked.
~ Gillian Flynn
We named the bar The Bar. "People will think we're ironic instead of creatively bankrupt," my sister reasoned.
~ Gillian Flynn
Fate is a fickle bitch who dotes on irony." The Black Company pg 447
~ Glen Cook
Fate is a fickle bitch who dotes on irony.
~ Glen Cook