Quotes About Irony

Prepare yourself for some bad news: Ronald Reagan's library just burned down. Both books were destroyed. But the real horror: He hadn't finished coloring either one of them.

What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?

A good deed never goes unpunished.

There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.

To all pimps and whores a merry syphilis and a happy gonorrhea.

I ought to write funny books. Life is really too horribly funny, but unless one`s an outsider looking on, it`s all such a bore.

I mocked myself while I made love. I flung myself into pleasure like a suicide on to a pavement.

You said just now that irony was a valuable literary quality. But you aren't a novel, she said.

This is not irony; it is echo. The way of the Mantle. If we who are honored with life do not perceive the obvious, then we are forced to live it again, around another corner, from another angle.

Right. I can tell from the bat wings and the leeches that you three are just all happy-smiles and rainbows.

Not all lawyers are annoying. Some are dead.

One of the ironies of courage, and the reason why we prize it so highly, is that we find it easier to be brave for someone else than we do for ourselves alone.

If fate doesn't make you laugh, Karla said, in one of my first conversations with her, then you just don't get the joke.

If the fate doesn't make you laugh, then you just don't get the joke.

When people are committed to things, and the world view they have is no longer in alignment with our world view, then it becomes funny.

It's kind of a terrible irony, in a way, that the solution to America's problems was World War II.

Irony has seeped into the felt of any fedora hat I have ever owned - not out of any wish of mine, but out of necessity. A fedora hat worn by me without the necessary protective irony would eat through my head and kill me.

Why should I be worried about dying? It's not going to happen in my lifetime!

Or the Department of Education and another ministry were worried about duplication of effort, so what did they do? They set up two committees to look into duplication and neither knew what the other was up to. It really is a world beyond parody.

That's the great irony of allowing passionate people to work from home. A manager's natural instinct is to worry that her workers aren't getting enough work done. But the real threat is that they will wind up working too hard. And because the manager isn't sitting across from her worker anymore, she can't look in the person's eyes and see burnout.

My luck is getting worse and worse. Last night, for instance, I was mugged by a quaker.

By an irony of fate, my first employment was as a draughtsman. I hated drawing; it was for me the very worst of annoyances. Fortunately, it was not long before I secured the position I sought, that of chief electrician to the telephone company.

I grew up in Boca Raton, Florida - the worst place on earth.

I don't have a constituency, and I'm not autobiographical in any way. I write these deeply moral books in a country which would prefer irony to anything with a moral tone.