Quotes About Irony

I've had the sort of day that would make Saint Francis of Assisi kick babies.

The whole Poghril tribe had died out from famine except for one last man who died of cholesterol poisoning some weeks later.

We have a saying up here. 'Life is wasted on the living.

It is most gratifying that your enthusiasm for our planet continues unabated. As a token of our appreciation, we hope you will enjoy the two thermonuclear missiles we've just sent to converge with your craft. To ensure ongoing quality of service, your death may be monitored for training purposes. Thank you.

If I asked you where the hell we were,' said Arthur weakly, 'would I regret it?' Ford stood up. 'We're safe,' he said. 'Oh good,' said Arthur. 'We're in a small galley cabin,' said Ford, 'in one of the spaceships of the Vogon Constructor Fleet.' 'Ah,' said Arthur, 'this is obviously some strange usage of the word safe that I wasn't previously aware of.

The Nutri-Matic Drinks Synthesizer claimed to produce the widest possible range of drinks personally matched to the tastes and metabolism of whoever cared to use it. When put to test, however, it invariably produced a plastic cup filled with a liquid which was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea.

Now—either you all give yourselves up now and let us beat you up a bit, though not very much of course because we are firmly opposed to needless violence, or we blow up this entire planet and possibly one or two others we noticed on our way out here!

He was rather disappointed to discover her name was Fenny. It was a rather silly, dispiriting name, such as an unlovely maiden aunt might vote herself if she couldn't sustain the name Fenella properly.

This is terrific," Arthur thought to himself, "Nelson's Column has gone, McDonald's has gone, all that's left is me and the words Mostly harmless. Any second now all that will be left is Mostly harmless. And yesterday the planet seemed to be going so well." A

Today was also his two-hundredth birthday, but that was just another meaningless coincidence.

I am so hip I have difficulty seeing over my pelvis.

It's unpleasantly like being drunk.' 'What's so unpleasant about being drunk?' 'You ask a glass of water.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy skips lightly over this tangle of academic abstraction, pausing only to note that the term "Future Perfect" has been abandoned since it was discovered not to be.

What's he saying?" asked Trillian. "Nothing," said Zaphod, "he just phoned to wash his head at us.

But what are you supposed to do with a manically depressed robot?" "You think you've got problems," said Marvin

Marvin'in göÄŸsünün derinliklerindeki diÅŸliler g?c?rdad?. Komik, dedi cenaze törenlerine çok uygun bir sesle, tam hayat daha kötü olamaz derken birden her ÅŸey nas?l da daha kötüye gidiyor.

There was a terrible ghastly silence. There was a terrible ghastly noise. There was a terrible ghastly silence.

Funny old thing, life, isn't it?

Great to see you big boy, how's the noise? You're looking great, really very, very fat and unwell. Amazing.

You are paralyzed by the fact that cruelty is often amusing.

Probably tastes like a pocket calculator garnished with dried herpes juice flakes.

only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony—which means that eighty percent of the world takes everything at face value. I can't imagine anything worse than that. Okay, maybe I can, but imagine reading the morning newspaper and believing it all to be true on some level.

In the midst of tragedy we start the comedy.

It's odd, isn't it, why farce so often seems to get mixed up with tragedy?